Hardware
Supercomputing director bets two grand that exascale computing won’t have arrived by 2020
Horst Simon, Deputy Director at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s NERSC, is putting his money where his mouth is.
Enterprise
Why every management team needs to find its inner geek
A look at why organisations worldwide need to approach technology from a holistic perspective rather than taking diverging views.
Public Sector
Digital Shoreditch 2013: London's Tech City is the UK's "economy of tomorrow"
Digital Shoreditch, a celebration of East London's Tech City, kicked off this morning with an opening keynote delivered by Hackney councillor Guy Nicholson.
Developer
5 major changes coming for Android developers
Google I/O 2013 was held last week, and we summarise the five main changes revealed at the conference which will affect Android devs.
News
Business & Finance
Today's Tech: ITProPortal reports from Digital Shoreditch 2013 and Yahoo agrees a £725 million Tumblr deal
The most significant of today's ITProPortal news, including Apple's significant move into military and the most exciting features coming to Android app developers.
Security
Around 22 million user IDs suspected stolen from Yahoo Japan
According to the firm, the suspected stolen information did not contain passwords or data that could be used to hack accounts but its users should change their login details anyway.
Public Sector
Google Glass privacy storm: US politicians demand answers
A Congressional caucus has written to CEO Larry Page demanding answers over how Google will address the privacy concerns associated with the forthcoming product.
Telecoms
O2 customers getting free Sky TV and Broadband to entice them to stay
Sky, which has acquired O2’s fixed broadband user base, is apparently trying to stem the flow of customers leaving the company.
Telecoms
Carphone Warehouse debuts online PAYG upgrade service
The new service, the first of its kind, is likely to alleviate its retail branches and boost its number of PAYG customers.
Reviews
Software
SoftMaker FreeOffice review
FreeOffice is faster and more intuitive than its free competitor LibreOffice, but on an overall level, it's not quite as powerful.
Hardware
BenQ MX518 review
Offering portability and a data image quality good enough for typical presentations, the BenQ MX518 is a solid budget projector.
Software
MarsEdit 3 (for Mac) review
MarsEdit 3 is an excellent Mac app that truly enhances the blogging experience, a couple of minor blemishes aside.
Hardware
HP LaserJet Enterprise 700 Printer M712dn review
The LaserJet Enterprise 700 M712dn is a workhorse monochrome laser printer that can churn out documents at up to A3 size.
Software
LibreOffice 4 review
LibreOffice 4 may be a bit clunky and outdated, but it's undeniably powerful and full-featured, not to mention completely free.
Features
Cloud
Choosing the right cloud solution for your organisation: public, private or hybrid?
Most businesses that move to hosted cloud solutions do so to change IT infrastructure from a capital expenditure to an operational cost.
Developer
Google I/O 2013 in pictures: Google Glass, sensor motes, Android Studio, robot bartenders and more
Google’s developer conference is now over. Here’s our image-led look back at the event and its various highlights.
Hardware
Digital Summer 2013 roundup: hands on with the Mophie Juice Pack Plus for iPhone 5 and much more
The sun is starting to play its usual cat-and-mouse game with the British public and another surefire sign that the seasons are changing was the arrival of Digital Summer 2013.
Hardware
Chinese chipmaking upstarts are preparing to take on Qualcomm and Intel
MediaTek and Allwinner might not be ready to challenge the big players yet, but they’re certainly companies to watch for the future.
Software
Can BlackBerry Messenger ports save BlackBerry?
BlackBerry is set to port its popular BBM app to Android and iOS. Will this be enough to make the company relevant again?
Deals
Hardware
Did Ebuyer “give away” Dell 3330DN laser printers worth £600?
Over the weekend, a deal surfaced on popular UK retailer Ebuyer which turned up to be one of the best ones of the last few years.
Enterprise
Supermicro RTG RX-M140i server available from £1170
This company is known mostly for building server motherboards and chassis but lately it has been diversifying.
Enterprise
HP DL580G7 server with 128GB RAM available for less than £18,000
You can make some significant savings by shopping around even when it comes to very high end enterprise servers.
Hardware
BlackBerry Q10 12-month contracts starting from £39 per month
You can get BlackBerry’s finest smartphone from less than £40 per month although you will have to pay a rather hefty upfront fee.
Enterprise
£3,000 Lenovo Thinkserver RD630 server: 12 Intel Xeon cores, 256GB of RAM and SSD all along
This rack-mounted server should quench your need for speed with some jaw dropping capabilities and a great price.
Blog
Cloud
How to leverage WAN optimisation for high-performance cloud services
Companies around the world and across all market sectors are exploring the possibilities offered by "cloud computing, but how do top executives leverage WAN optimisation to improve performance?
Developer
Google I/O 2013: an Android developer's preview
With Google I/O 2013 set to kick off later today, a leading Android developer gives his insight into what to expect at the annual conference and how it could affect enterprise.
Cloud
App Creator promises to help enterprises build custom apps in minutes
The cloud specialist has launched App Creator, which allows people and organisations to quickly build service-oriented enterprise apps, custom-made to fit various business needs.
Hardware
Bitcoin power: The Bitcoin network now outstrips the top 500 supercomputers combined
Bitcoin is a demonstration of the power of distributed computing – but can't we do something more meaningful with all that CPU muscle?
Business & Finance
Steve Ballmer: Should he stay at Microsoft, or get the boot?
Is Ballmer still the right man to be at the helm of Microsoft? We ponder the pros and cons of the controversial and outspoken CEO.
