Month: June 2016
MIT graphene breakthrough could make chips a million times faster
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that graphene sheets of atom-thick carbon could be used to make chips up to a million times faster. The researchers worked out...
Safari 10 will disable Adobe Flash, QuickTime, Silverlight and Java
Apple has revealed that the next-generation Safari 10 browser, set to debut in macOS, will disable plug-ins including Flash, QuickTime and Java. Apple engineer Ricky Mondello explained in a post on...
Brexit: Google data shows more searches for ‘leave’ than ‘remain’
UK citizens appear to be more interested in finding out about leaving the European Union than staying in it, according to search query data from Google. Google looked at millions of searches in the UK...
Scale Computing cuts the cost of SSD-enabled hyperconverged infrastructure for SMBs
Scale Computing has updated its HC3 family of hyperconverged infrastructure systems to offer small and mid-size organisations a solution based on SSDs that can be deployed for less than $25,000 for the...
Twitter offering four hours of free WiFi at St Pancras station
Twitter has launched a free WiFi service at St Pancras in London as part of a partnership with the station's wireless network provider WiFi Metropolis. The station's 48 million annual visitors will be...
Nordic CIO interview: Magnus Åkerlind, Loomis
Rugby School selects Xirrus for WiFi rollout
Rugby School in Warwickshire has chosen Xirrus to provide WiFi networks to connect boarding houses and support pupils' access to the internet. The school was founded in 1567, and has a reputation for...
Only quarter of banks have company-wide digital strategy
Chef launches Habitat open source project to develop ‘application automation’
Chef, the company behind the popular DevOps tool, has launched a new open source project called Habitat intended to improve application automation. Habitat centres application configuration, management...