The other new customers joining IBM's grid computing fold are NLI Research Institute, a unit of the Nippon Life Insurance Group in Japan; Ngee Ann Polytechnic, a college in Singapore; T-Systems, a unit of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom; and IN2P3, a...
Driven by the internet, many of these new payment forms will fill the void left by credit cards. In Japan all new handsets come with a built-in chip designed to hold your bank debit details, and the facility has proved wildly popular as a means of...
It uses these words as Captcha codes, which are then read by humans - turning the 150,000 hours spent every day solving these little puzzles to positive effect. Described as a "real guy to watch" by one of the panel, Luis Von Ahn is one of the...
Each container can hold up to 250 Sun T1000 servers (with 2,000 cores and 8,000 simultaneous threads) or it can be filled with 1.5 petabytes of disk or 2 petabytes of tape. However, Sun offers a discount on the approximately €500,000 price tag if...
The company affixes wireless transceivers to hydrogen- or helium-filled weather balloons and releases them so they travel to between 65,000 and 100,000 feet. But some delivery solutions really take thinking outside the broadband box to a new level.
The conclusion is that there is unlikely to ever be one standard out of the box solution to spam. Manlio Mannisi, UK managing director of Computer Associates, said there is still no "silver bullet" to solving spam but urged users to gain a clearer...