Computer vendors are keen to build on the growing pressures growing on organisations to keep their data centre costs low. HP has launched a new modular approach to designing data centres that it claimed The HP Flexible DC offers a new, butterfly design that the company said would make more efficient use of space. There’s [...]
Next week may see the debut of the Blackberry 6 operating system running on a brand new slider phone, suggested by an upcoming press announcement. Many sites and blogs are getting excited about invitations from Research In Motion and AT&T for an event in New York City on August 3. The event invitation doesn’t say [...]
It’s a rite of passage for tech start-ups to announce their first multi-million dollar rounds of funding, a way to demonstrate viability in a hyper-competitive industry. But taking on funding from outside investors is, to a certain extent, becoming unnecessary and even financially irresponsible because of new opportunities made available by cloud computing, suggests John [...]
Customers who wanted the iPhone 4 line up in San Francisco the day the phone hit stores in June. The phone's popularity here has caused a strain on local 3G networks. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) It turns out Steve Jobs wasn’t exaggerating all that much when he said it can take three years to get a [...]
As part of Road Trip 2010, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the Ben & Jerry’s plant in Waterbury, Vermont. Here, the Porsche Panamera 4S that Terdiman is road-testing on the trip is seen in front of the giant sugar, milk and cream tanks outside the plant. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) WATERBURY, Vt.–You wouldn’t think that half [...]
Sega is in the process of bringing tons of classic games to the iPhone like Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe. This week, old school tactical role-playing game Shining Force joins the lineup. TouchArcade reports that this iteration of Shining force is a port of the original Genesis version that came out in the early [...]
(Credit: Apple) It’s been a busy morning for Apple. The company topped off its iMac and Mac Pro releases with a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display. The 27-inch display has a 16:9 edge-to-edge glass display on an aluminum stand. David Moody, Apple’s vice president of worldwide Mac product marketing, told CNET that the new display [...]
If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Ringing this bell looks very tempting, especially on that lush grass where it looks so peaceful. If you know what this is and where it’s located, you [...]
The U.K.’s privacy watchdog has visited Google to look at samples of data collected by the company from unsecured Wi-Fi networks through its Street View program, and says the data was free of “meaningful personal details.” The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which in May said the data should be deleted as it was unlikely to [...]
Apple on Wednesday updated its Safari Web browser, turning on extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Safari 5 was introduced in June, but the extension functionality was designed for developers, not the general public. This gave developers a chance to create extensions for the browser before Apple officially launched the feature. Extensions are created [...]
