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Just when you thought you were safe and sound in your SharePoint cocoon it turned out, just before Christmas, that there was a major bug in Microsoft Office 365 that could expose your organisation to a serious security breach. The bug was discovered and tested by Noam Liran, chief software...
In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue computer made history by beating world-renowned chess champion Garry Kasparov in the second six-game match between the two. Now, the same deep computing technology that made Deep Blue possible is being put to use to make renewable energy generation more efficient. Say hello to IBM's...
In the race to dominate global mobile communications, the company with the most advanced technology usually comes out ahead. Therefore, it should be no surprise that London-based Inmarsat was quite thrilled with the recent launch of their first satellite related to their new Ka-band project. The spacecraft with the satellite...
Over the last six years, there has been a constant focus on carbon reduction around IT systems, both inside and outside the data centre. Most of that attention has been on power, cooling, servers and storage. According to Ian Wilkie, supply chain director at Brand-Rex, the next phase is to...
Officials in south-west England are thrilled with an announcement from BT that another 31 local communities will be added to the company's fibre network by next spring. The addition of these communities pushes the total number of homes and businesses in the south-west with access to fibre broadband up to...
Steady winds in late November led to an all-time record of wind-generated power, peaking on the morning of November 29. According to National Grid PLC, wind turbines generated a peek 6,010 MW in London, allowing gas-fired plants to temporarily drop output. The previous best was recorded on September 14 of...
In an attempt to reduce carbon emissions as much as possible, creative companies around the world are coming up with innovative solutions for alternative fuels. One of the latest innovations comes by way of an Icelandic company known as Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI's latest project was to design and...
The launch of video game Grand Theft Auto 5 was undoubtedly a runaway success, racking up more than $1billion in sales in its first three days and setting six Guinness world records in the process. However, simple server monitoring problems have left the game’s creator, RockStar North, in a vulnerable...
A Canadian technology company is betting there is more to the Arctic Circle than just cold and snow. They are planning to take advantage of a short polar route to link London and Tokyo with an optical fibre network that should be up and running sometime in 2016. Arctic Fibre...
IBM and Marist College have announced a joint project – now in the testing stage – that could change the way data centres prepare for impending natural disasters. The solution involves using a cloud-computing environment to re-provision data centres in minutes, using only a mobile device and a wireless connection....
The TSUBAME supercomputer from Japan's Global Scientific Information and Computing Centre has long been one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. What's more, the research and development conducted at the centre has enabled Japan to be very influential in multiple areas, ranging from technical education to computer-based enterprise....
Researchers from British Columbia's Simon Fraser University have done the unthinkable. They have managed to maintain a quantum memory superposition state, at room temperature, longer than any previous attempts. What's most impressive is the fact that the record-setting superposition lasted nearly 100 times longer than the previous record of 25...