2007 June: Computing
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AP, Microsoft offers web storage, The Age, 2007 June 28 (Microsoft is giving computer users up to 500 megabytes of online storage for their documents, music, photos and video)
Nick Carr, Software companies are building their way to a very material future, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (today's software companies are finding that they have to compete not just on the elegance of their programs, but on their ingenuity and efficiency in buying and deploying physical assets)
Acquisition spree boosts Oracle, BBC, 2007 June 26 (US software giant Oracle posts higher profits in the three months to May, boosted by acquisitions)
Steve Lohr, IBM brings faster data to Wall Street, IHT, 2007 June 19 (IBM is introducing a high-performance computer system designed to analyze data rapidly as it streams in from many sources to increase the speed and accuracy of decision-making in fields from security surveillance to Wall Street trading)
Charles Arthur, Safari on Windows shows path to iPhone, Guardian, 2007 June 14 (developers could find Safari is their only option for applications - and it could mean extra cash for Apple)
Pavel Alpeyev and Mikako Nakajima, Toshiba to speed up flash memory output, IHT, 2007 June 12 (Toshiba, Japan's biggest chipmaker, said Tuesday that it would speed up production of flash chips by six months to meet demand for memory used in mobile phones)
Bloomberg, Intel reported ready to slash prices of some processors, IHT, 2007 June 12 (the company told customers it will cut prices of its high-end Core 2 Quad processor by 50 percent on July 22)
Apple: The third act, Economist, 2007 June 9 (Steve Jobs has twice taken Apple to new heights; with the launch of the iPhone this month he is hoping to do so for a third time)
Innovation: Lessons from Apple, Economist, 2007 June 9 (what other companies can learn from California's master of innovation)
Steve Lohr, Engineering at SAP opens up to globalization - and the Web, IHT, 2007 June 8 (two transformations: the increasing globalization of the engineering work at the company, the continuing opening up of SAP's technology itself in response to the rise of the Internet and the growing popularity of Web-based computing)
John Naughton, Bill's coffee-table wheeze ground down by General Jobs, Observer, 2007 June 3 (modern computing is built on the theft of a metaphor)
Simon Tisdall, Robot cop: coming to a city near you soon, Guardian, 2007 June 30 (real-life Robocops could become a key element in global counter-terrorist and military operations within 10 years)
Ralph Blumenthal, Robots put through their paces in Disaster City, IHT, 2007 June 25 (robots crawled, rolled or hovered over mock carnage for several days at a training center here affiliated with Texas A&M University, transmitting images, sniffing for poisons and hauling out dummies in an exercise to grade robots in rescue work)
Calendar question over star disc, BBC, 2007 June 26 (a team revives the debate over whether a Bronze Age disc from Germany is one of the earliest known calendars)
Bobbie Johnson, Scientists battle to build biggest supercomputer, Guardian, 2007 June 27 (Sun's £30m device soon to be overtaken by rival IBM; machines getting more powerful and less costly)
John Markoff, Supercomputing pioneer keeps seeking the fastest machine, IHT, 2007 June 26 (at a conference on high-performance computing in Dresden, Andreas Bechtolsheim introduced his newest machine: the Sun Constellation System supercomputer that would compete for the title as the world's fastest with the completion of installation this year)
Andy Patrizio, Multi-core! What Is It Good For?, Datamation, 2007 June 23 (if Intel and AMD built all of this technology, will the apps come?; not for a while, it seems)
AP Digital, Brain Activity Controls Toy Train, The Age, 2007 June 22 (a new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity)
Steve Lohr, IBM brings faster data to Wall Street, IHT, 2007 June 19 (IBM is introducing a high-performance computer system designed to analyze data rapidly as it streams in from many sources to increase the speed and accuracy of decision-making in fields from security surveillance to Wall Street trading)
Irene Klotz, ISS computer woes concern Europe, BBC, 2007 June 18 (the same computer systems troubling the space station are also on Europe's new lab and cargo ship)
Wendy M Grossman, The art of reducing your computer's noise, Guardian, 2007 June 14 (more powerful PCs need more cooling, but reducing the racket seems not to be a priority for manufacturers)
Google backs green computer plan, BBC, 2007 June 13 (search engine giant Google and US semiconductor firm Intel have thrown their weight behind a massive scheme to reduce carbon dioxide emissions)
Bloomberg, Intel reported ready to slash prices of some processors, IHT, 2007 June 12 (the company told customers it will cut prices of its high-end Core 2 Quad processor by 50 percent on July 22)
Taskforce to cut 'cyber warming', BBC, 2007 June 10 (reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the production, operation and disposal of computers is to be the aim of a new government taskforce)
Technology Quarterly: Taking storage to the next dimension, Economist, 2007 June 9 (after years of development, holographic data-storage systems are finally ready to go on sale)
Graeme Philipson, All hung up with technology envy, The Age, 2007 June 5 (just when is the time right to draw the line with new products?)
John Naughton, Bill's coffee-table wheeze ground down by General Jobs, Observer, 2007 June 3 (modern computing is built on the theft of a metaphor)
EC threat to BBC over downloads, BBC, 2007 June 26 (the BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission)
Technology Quarterly: Bringing free software down to earth, Economist, 2007 June 9 (Mark Shuttleworth, software entrepreneur and space tourist, believes that open-source software is not just for geeks)
John Markoff, Rivals try to save the operating system, IHT, 2007 June 4 (many technologists contend that the increasingly ponderous PC-bound operating systems that currently power 750 million computers, like Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's soon-to-be-released Mac OS X Leopard, will fade in importance)
Jason Dowling, Health revolution stalls over mass funding blowout, The Age, 2007 June 24 (an upgrade of the health system's computer network has blown way over budget and is years behind schedule)
James Meikle, Schools warn of abuse risk from IT database, Guardian, 2007 June 22 (misuse of database holding sensitive information on 11 million children in England could lead to security breach)
Simon Bowers, Ailing project at heart of NHS, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (loss of IT chief is only the latest setback in ambitious scheme to computerise records)
Michael Cross, The foundations of an NHS IT system are in place: now start building, Guardian, 2007 June 14 (no doubt Gordon Brown's inbox is already creaking with suggestions about what he should do with the NHS national programme for IT)
Simon Caulkin, Data, data, everywhere, but not a stop to think, Observer, 2007 June 10 (as anyone trying to navigate London's dug-up streets will testify, the capital's water mains are knackered; pipes are cracked, blocked, too narrow or in the wrong place)
Nick Mathiason, Health service's IT surgeon, Observer, 2007 June 10 (Richard Granger is in charge of giving the NHS a £7bn computer systems transplant, and vilification by the media has become part of his job. Yet he is confident that he is already transforming the service for the better)
John Baschab and Jon Piot, Setting IT Strategic Priorities, Datamation, 2007 June 7 (through our work at Technisource in outsourcing IT departments we have identified the common actions and priorities that differentiate the most successful operations)
Complacency 'rife' in IT projects, BBC, 2007 June 4 (half of European IT managers say that delivering projects late will have no effect on their career prospects)
James Meikle, Schools warn of abuse risk from IT database, Guardian, 2007 June 22 (misuse of database holding sensitive information on 11 million children in England could lead to security breach)
Reuters, Does Google know too much about you?, The Age, 2007 June 18 (most people missed the announcement about how Google wants to burrow inside your brain and capture your most intimate thoughts)
Michael J de le Merced, Wall Street panel to propose guidelines for e-mail, IHT, 2007 June 14 (every day, millions of dollars are potentially at stake as electronic communications whiz through the air; yet that ever-expanding number of ways to communicate have raised concerns about the spread of confidential information through unsecure devices)
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes, BBC, 2007 June 14 (the FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals)
Air travel: Watch that twitch, Economist, 2007 June 16 (how airport security identifies suspicious characters)
Microsoft unveils patch package, BBC, 2007 June 13 (Windows users are being urged to download the latest batch of security updates from Microsoft)
AP, Computer simulates Sept 11 attack, The Age, 2007 June 22 (researchers have built a computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Centre attack)
Ancient Rome brought back to life, BBC, 2007 June 12 (an international team of experts unveil a digital simulation, said to be the world's biggest, of fourth century Rome)
Business strategy: Shall we play a game?, Economist, 2007 June 2 (playing war games can give companies new perspectives on complex problems)
Chris Arnot, Education, education, entertainment, Guardian, 2007 June 19 (computer games are being developed into specialised and highly sophisticated learning tools)
Simon Caulkin, Data, data, everywhere, but not a stop to think, Observer, 2007 June 10 (as anyone trying to navigate London's dug-up streets will testify, the capital's water mains are knackered; pipes are cracked, blocked, too narrow or in the wrong place)
Technology Quarterly: Are you talking to me?, Economist, 2007 June 9 (technology that understands human speech could be about to enter the mainstream)
Michael T Luongo, In U.S., expatriate professionals see 'accent reduction' as a sound investment, IHT, 2007 June 5 (many educated, non-native English speakers working in the United States take voice training and accent reduction to improve presentations, workshops and everyday conversations with their American-born co-workers)
Sean Michael Kerner, Over 5,500 Projects Slated to Adopt GPL 3, Datamation, 2007 June 29 (the official final release of the GPL is is expected today and it's possible that over 5,500 projects could be migrating to it in very quickly)
Gordon Mackie, Technobile, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (I know how to spell my surname, thanks, and I don't want software telling me otherwise)
Andy Patrizio, Are RIAs What .NET Should Have Been?, Datamation, 2007 June 24 (supporters of RIAs and software as a service (SAAS) (define) started turning on-demand applications into local applications)
Algorithmic trading: Ahead of the tape, Economist, 2007 June 23 (the best newsreaders may soon be computers)
Tim Anderson, Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (Richard Hipp's database is used by some of the biggest names in IT, - but he has not made a penny from it)
Microsoft to reflect UK dialects, BBC, 2007 June 13 (a Microsoft project to create downloadable dictionaries to reflect the UK's rich local dialect heritage is drawing to a close)
Rapid take-up on Windows' Safari, BBC, 2007 June 15 (Apple's new web browser for Windows was downloaded more than a million times in 48 hours)
Linda Jones, Technobile, Guardian, 2007 June 14 (why do computers have to make doing a straightforward thing like a mail merge so very hard?)
Jack Schofield, New ways of developing blur the border between online and offline, Guardian, 2007 June 14 (Adobe joins Google and Microsoft in making programs to go)
Charles Arthur, Safari on Windows shows path to iPhone, Guardian, 2007 June 14 (developers could find Safari is their only option for applications - and it could mean extra cash for Apple)
YouTube to test video ID software, BBC, 2007 June 12 (online video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns)
Apple announces Windows browser, BBC, 2007 June 11 (Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft's Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox)
Technology Quarterly: Bringing free software down to earth, Economist, 2007 June 9 (Mark Shuttleworth, software entrepreneur and space tourist, believes that open-source software is not just for geeks)
Technology Quarterly: Are you talking to me?, Economist, 2007 June 9 (technology that understands human speech could be about to enter the mainstream)
Graeme Philipson, All hung up with technology envy, The Age, 2007 June 5 (just when is the time right to draw the line with new products?)
Gerry Blackwell, Microsoft Word 2007: A Word of Caution, Datamation, 2007 June ww (the worst of it, for people who are very familiar with and who rely upon Word, is that Word 2007 is overall less customizable than previous versions)
Leader, Knowledgeable furniture, IHT, 2007 June 4 (a 30-inch computer touch screen in coffee-table format - called Surface - is likely to be deployed first in Las Vegas casinos for visitors who already believe they can communicate with slot machines)
Keith Stuart, A machine gun now comes with a lesson in philosophy, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (these days, most violent games have a brain and, Lord help us, a conscience)
Alexander Gambotto-Burke and Michael Calore, Game developers suffering a fit of the vapours, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (the latest Duke Nukem game is in its 10th year of development - but it's not the only long-delayed thing)
'Violent' video game ad condemned, BBC, 2007 June 26 (a computer game poster is criticised as "irresponsible" by the advertising watchdog)
Video game addiction 'not mental illness', New Scientist, 2007 June 25 (doctors backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video-game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue further)
Roger Highfield, Lost to the lure of virtual reality, The Age, 2007 June 24 (the internet-based virtual world Second Life may have a serious impact on people's real life relationships, a well-known British scientist warns)
AP, Is game addiction a mental disorder?, The Age, 2007 June 22 (medical body wants to have video game addiction officially classified as a psychiatric condition)
Banned video game is 'fine art', BBC, 2007 June 21 (the US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland describe it as a "fine piece of art")
Bobbie Johnson, Escape asylum, stab nurse, kill prostitutes. Not here you won't, say British censors, Guardian, 2007 June 20 (Manhunt 2 is first video game banned in 10 years; classification board cites 'casual sadism' of sequel)
Chris Arnot, Education, education, entertainment, Guardian, 2007 June 19 (computer games are being developed into specialised and highly sophisticated learning tools)
Doreen Carvajal, Kinder, not killer, video games, IHT, 2007 June 17 (by the fall season, software developers will start introducing new offerings designed to nudge players to bond with Grandma, balance their hormones and eat their peas)
Tom Hyland, Games give troops fighting chance, but are they right?, The Age, 2007 June 17 (using computer games to prepare troops for combat raises serious ethical issues)
Grand Theft Auto firm to cut jobs, BBC, 2007 June 12 (the firm behind video game Grand Theft Auto says it will cut jobs to reduce by costs by $25m a year by 2008)
John Mangan , When fantasy is just too close for comfort, The Age, 2007 June 10 (there is a reason why "realistic" animation in films creeps us out; and creators are growing wary of the trap)
Advertising: Got game, Economist, 2007 June 9 (inserting advertisements into video games holds much promise)
Technology Quarterly: Online gaming's Netscape moment?, Economist, 2007 June 9 (existing virtual worlds are built on closed, proprietary platforms, like early online services; might they now open up, like the web?)
AP, One last hurrah for Pac-Man, The Age, 2007 June 8 (Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani launches what he says is the "final contribution" to his career as a game maker)
Bruce Lambert, He's 9 Years Old and a Video-Game Circuit Star, IHT, 2007 June 7 (Victor M. De Leon III has been playing video games on the professional circuit for five years now, racking up thousands of dollars in prizes and endorsements at tournaments around the country)
Rachel Browne and Caroline Marcus, No ban on Virginia Tech game, The Age, 2007 June 4 (Australian authorities are powerless to ban a computer game inspired by the Virginia Tech massacre)
Jeff Sparrow, Killing soldiers' humanity, The Age, 2007 June 4 (the American military is training its soldiers to become so inured to killing that it becomes easy)
Kenneth Nguyen, Here's the game plan: sign here, sailor, The Age, 2007 June 1 (the Royal Australian Navy is attracting potential recruits using an online video game available through its website)