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James Niccolai
Member since: April 2011
Bio: James Niccolai is Deputy news editor at IDG News Service and reports on middleware; grid computing; scientific supercomputing.
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James Niccolai wrote Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp.1 hour 58 min ago
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Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past US$200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing momentum.
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Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion.
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A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.
2 days 20 hours ago
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Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.
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A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overachievers like Google and Microsoft.
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Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.
1 week 4 days ago
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John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organizing it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday.
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IBM is in "advanced discussions" with Lenovo over a possible deal for it to purchase IBM's x86 server business, according to two news reports Thursday.
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Advanced Micro Devices reported a 31 percent drop in revenue for the first quarter as it continues to battle a weak PC market and lackluster demand for its chips.
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Unidentified hackers are said to have have launched a large-scale attack against WordPress blogs and any hosts using weak passwords are urged to update them immediately.
5 weeks 1 day ago
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A new survey suggests that large data centers might be less energy efficient than was previously thought.
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Oracle's unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors marked what some analysts think is a step toward an expected standardizing of the vendor's two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture.
5 weeks 6 days ago
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Facebook has posted a Q&A on its website about the privacy implications of its new Facebook Home software for Android phones, though it was unclear if it has addressed all the concerns raised.
6 weeks 1 day ago
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It's been a turbulent decade at Hewlett-Packard, with board members and CEOs resigning or being ousted for all manner of colorful reasons, including strategic missteps, accusations of spying on journalists and alleged sexual harassment.
6 weeks 2 days ago
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Hewlett-Packard's Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP's troubled Autonomy acquisition.
6 weeks 2 days ago
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Computers was the biggest area for patent activity worldwide last year, but medical devices saw the most growth, according to a new report this week.
6 weeks 4 days ago
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Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture.
7 weeks 5 days ago
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with a new measurement for doing both.
7 weeks 6 days ago
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Hewlett-Packard's shareholders have voted to reelect its entire board of directors, despite opposition from investors who want some members held accountable for recent troubles at HP, including its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy.
8 weeks 3 days ago
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple, a one-time close partner of Adobe that became the most vociferous critic of its Flash technology.
8 weeks 4 days ago
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Warren East, the outgoing CEO of UK chip design company ARM, has never displayed the bravado of his counterparts across the Atlantic, and that was on show Tuesday when he explained his surprise decision to leave the company on July 1.
8 weeks 5 days ago
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The new smartphone has a bigger, sharper screen and front- and rear-facing cameras that can be used at the same time.
9 weeks 2 days ago
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