IBM's Blue Gene wears the supercomputing trousers

IBM has claimed the top spot for the third time in a row in the global supercomputing chart with its Blue Gene/L system. The TOP500 Organisation put in a sustained performance of 280.6 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second. ...more

iTunes more popular than file-sharing - report

The iTunes Music Store is now more popular than most peer-to-peer file sharing networks, according to new research. NPD Group reports that 1.7 million US households downloaded music from Apple's online music store during March, the same number as obtained files using Limewire but more than Kazaa, BearShare, Ares, Morpheus and iMesh. ...more

Dell shines CES light on new notebooks and screens

Dell's Mr Dell yesterday unveiled his company's latest innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. New to Dell's product lines are a notebook launched in the US with an enormous 20.1in screen, capable of HDTV, and the 30in Dell Widescreen UltraSharp 3007WFP flat-panel LCD monitor. ...more

Cisco rebrands for Unified Communications

Aimed at companies looking to unify data, voice and video infrastructures, Cisco has announced a new set of comms products. The newly re-branded Cisco Unified Communications system 6.0 replaces Cisco's previous CallManager line of products and will allow companies to connect Symbian, Windows Mobile, Brew and Blackberry-based smartphones to corporate communications infrastructures. ...more

EMI boss denies single-price link with music piracy

The chairman of EMI has said that a single price for music downloads does not deter file sharing. Eric Nicoli made the comments after Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that if the record companies forced a rise in price for some tracks on the iTunes Music Store then its users will 'go back to piracy'. That's 'piracy' as in file sharing not rape and pillage on the open seas. ...more