Amazon goes south with São Paulo data center

Amazon’s expanded its server footprint for a second time just over a month, this time opening a data center serving customers in South America.

The cloud pioneer that everybody’s now racing to catch has opened its first South American Region facility with a server farm running in São Paulo, Brazil’s capital.

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VIA Announces Android Support for Embedded x86 Boards

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced Android support for VIA x86 embedded platforms, starting with support for the VIA EITX-3002 Em-ITX board. Running Android on an x86 platform offers increased flexibility, great multimedia support and cost saving advantages for embedded applications such as in-vehicle entertainment and interactive kiosks.

“VIA has a long history of offering a wide range of options and customized solutions for our embedded customers,” said Epan Wu, Head of the VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. “Th

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AMD Radeon HD 7000-Series cards

AMD’s next-generation high-end graphics card has been spotted, with images making their way onto the Internet. The new boards are marked as “Tahiti” and are believed to be the top-of-the-line single-GPU cards from AMD. This should be what the Radeon HD 7900-Series will eventually be.    The card, as you can see in the picture above, is quite long, roughly the same length as AMD’s current Radeon HD 6970. It sports twelve GDDR5 memory chips, which means they use a 384-bit memory bus. It also includes two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors, which should give it up to 375W of power to suck down. T Read more…

Huawei Singapore announced the availability of two new smartphones today – the Huawei Honor and the Huawei Vision.

Huawei Singapore announced the availability of two new smartphones today – the Huawei Honor and the Huawei Vision.

The Huawei Honor (U8860) will be shipped with the latest Android Gingerbread OS and features a 16M 16:9 true color high-definition (HD) 4-inch Full Wide VGA capacitive touch screen. Powered by a 1,900 mAh battery, Huawei Honor frees consumers from the inconvenience of searching for an electricity source, allowing them to share and connect for up to three days1 on a single charge – the longest battery life among smartphones in the 4-inch screen range.

The Huawei Honor will be available in Singapore from 16 December at a recommended retail price of $528 (without GST)

TheHuawei Vision (U8850) will feature the brand’s stunning 3D user interface and carousel animation display. The d

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NetApp loses ground again in IDC’s Storage Tracker

NetApp has lost ground for the second quarter in succession, Dell is pretty flat and HP growing steadily. These are the headlines from IDC’s quarterly storage tracker for external disk storage.

The tracker looks at worldwide external dusk storage systems factory revenue and IDC ranks suppliers, giving them tied positions if there is a less than 1 per cent difference between their factory revenues.

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