On today’s Digits: WSJ’s Don Clark tells us how HTML5 is changing the Web, in a long-standing battle between proponents of the Web language and Flash-maker Adobe; a new ruling on whether Twitter data can be obtained without a warrant; Facebook is close to settling a privacy case with the FTC; in Swisher Scoops, Kara Swisher has the latest on talks of a Yahoo sale and, what IBM is doing in the ‘Bring Your Own Device’ war at work.
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In this latest episode of HotHardware’s Two and Half Geeks, Marco takes us through the component selection and build process for the grand prize of HotHardware’s Labor Day Giveaway contest – a custom gaming PC decked out with the latest technologies from Intel, NVIDIA, Patriot, Gigabyte, NZXT and many more!
SNW Europe The scale-out file computing world has a new player: Fujitsu. The company has just pushed out its FEFS product in Japan.
Fujitsu FEFS is a terabyte per second scale-out file system for high-performance computing. It could come westwards and provide competition for SONAS, EMC Isilon, and other big data file systems.
FEFS stands for Fujitsu Exabyte File System and it has been developed from Lustre. The thing scales to 8EB, eight thousand petabytes, and supports from a few dozen servers up to one million.
AMD is implementing a massive “restructuring plan” in an effort to improve its competitive positioning.
”Reducing our cost structure and focusing our global workforce on key growth opportunities will strengthen [our] competitiveness and allow us to aggressively pursue a balanced set of strategic activities designed to accelerate future growth,” explained newly appointed AMD CEO Rory Read.
”The actions we are taking are designed to improve our ability to consistently address the needs of our global customer base and stake leadership positions in lower power, emerging markets and the cloud.”
Unfortunately, restructuring is a sterile euphemism for layoffs, with the company terminating approximately 10% (1,400) of its workforce.
A list compiled by Icrontic confirms the following employees have been let go: Director of the Products Group, senior engineer Carrell Killebrew; PR Manager Antal Tungler; PR Rep Bernard Fernandes; FirePro Product Marketing Managers Robert Miller and Lidia Gentilucci; Corporate VP of Strategy and Fellow Patrick Moorhead; Margaret Franco, VP of Marketing; and John Volkmann, Corporate Marketing Fellow.
According to Charlie Demerjian of SemiAccurate, the layoffs are likely to have a negative impact on AMD.
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With a name that will immediately disappear to the bottom every Google search, the Im Watch is a Smart Watch that looks like somebody shrank a cellphone and put it on their wrist. In fact, it looks more like the current, impossible-to-use iPod Nano in a wrist-strap case, and has the touch-screen to match.
The Im tethers itself to your phone via Bluetooth, from where it draws its lifeblood. Caller ID, speakerphone (calling Dick Tracy!) and music are all streamed from the phone, and controlled on the curved 1.5-inch, 240 x 240 TFT screen.
Inside, the watch runs a modded version of Android 1.6 and comes with 64MB RAM and 4GB storage.