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Philippine govt, IBM quarrel in flood aftermath
News Glitch in Philippine pension system causes pileup in emergency loan applications, leading to yet another finger-pointing tiff between GSIS and IBM.
Tags: Database management, Politics, Services, Database, IBM Corp., IBM DB2, Philippine Government, TV, software, U.S.
Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)
Reviews Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Notebook, notebook hard drive, Gist, hard drive, flash memory, desktop
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News A large helium leak resulting from an earlier transformer glitch has forced the world's largest particle collider to close temporarily on just day nine of its operation.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, Particle, theory, black hole, News.com, blog, analysis, Large Hadron Collider, Networking technology
LHC re-start delayed again until September
News Latest postponement puts the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, back on line a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown.
Tags: CERN, Malfunction, theory, director, April, James Gillies
LHC restart pushed back again
News Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business applications, CERN, Cable, Large Hadron Collider, Supercomputing
Phones almost unusable in NZ, Y2K bug unrelated
News Telephones in New Zealand have become almost unusable but the trouble was not caused by the Y2K bug.
BlackBerry has twice failure rate of iPhone
News Apple's iPhone is twice as reliable as BlackBerry and Palm Treo, a new study of more than 15,000 handsets, shows.
Tags: Smart phones, BlackBerry, Mac OS, Battery, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Treo, Sales
Sony finds glitches in three PS2 games
News Three software titles for the PlayStation 2 sold in Japan may malfunction on recently manufactured consoles, Sony said Friday.
New computer virus hits Japan
News A computer virus that could cause email servers to malfunction has made its way from the United States to Japan, with more than 200 cases reported in July, a government-affiliated organization said Thursday.
Domain name hopes falsely raised
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Large Hadron Collider downed by faulty transformer
News Not long after the world's largest particle collider became operational, a transformer that helps cool part it malfunctioned, forcing operations to be suspended.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, E-mail Message, phone, e-mail, theory, black hole, Earth, blog, scientist
Americans now less worried by Y2K
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Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating again in April.
Tags: CERN, Accelerator, grid computing, Switzerland, Tom Espiner, theory, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, director, France
Glitch closes Amazon auctions, donations
News E-tailer suffers a "hardware failure" that crashes several of its departments, including the area where Amazon accepts donations to help victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Cisco targets Net phone software flaw
News A security hole in Internet protocol affects a range of Cisco products, but the company says it has a patch.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Network security, Security applications/tools
