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Red Hat guns for VMware with RHEV 3.0
Red Hat guns for VMware with RHEV 3.0
Red Hat has built a $1bn company, more or less, predicated on the idea that open source Linux is cheaper than Windows or Unix and that open source Java application servers are cheaper than commercial alternatives like WebLogic and WebSphere.
For two years now, Red Hat has been trying to convince the world that it has a chance to take on x86 server virtualization juggernaut VMware, to little avail. But with the advent of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, and a future upgrade planned later this year, Red Hat has a much better chance of denting VMware.
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Royal Society offers ways to overhaul ICT teaching
Royal Society offers ways to overhaul ICT teaching
The Royal Society has suggested ways the government can overhaul information and communications technology (ICT) teaching in schools.
It follows promises from Education Secretary Michael Gove to scrap the way the subject is taught currently.
The body, which oversees UK sciences, recommends dividing computing into distinct subjects such as computer science and digital literacy.
It said the government must do more to recruit specialist ICT teachers.
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Virgin Media to double the speed of customer broadband
Virgin Media to double the speed of customer broadband
Virgin Media will double the speed of its broadband service for more than four million of its customers, the company has said.
The upgrade, which begins in February, will also see the service's top speed increase from 100Mbps to 120Mbps.
The full rollout is expected to be complete by mid-2013 at a cost to the company of £110m.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, said the investment would be a "great boost" to the UK.
"I welcome this announcement from Virgin Media," Mr Cameron said in a statement.
"It will provide a great boost for the economy and change the way many households, consumers and businesses use the internet.
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School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme
School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme
The current information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in England's schools is a "mess" and must be radically revamped, the education secretary has announced.
From September it will be replaced by a flexible curriculum in computer science and programming, designed with the help of universities and industry.
Michael Gove called the current ICT curriculum "demotivating and dull".
He will begin a consultation next week on the new computing curriculum.
He said this would create young people "able to work at the forefront of technological change".
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Microsoft celebrates IE6 death as Google downranks Chrome
Microsoft celebrates IE6 death as Google downranks Chrome
Microsoft has celebrated the imminent demise of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser by baking a cake.
The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers.
It is keen to kill off the old version of the browser and persuade users to move to IE8 or 9.
Meanwhile rival Google has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown on the promotion of its Chrome browser.
Chrome climbdown
It has downgraded Chrome in its search listings after the discovery that a marketing campaign paid bloggers to promote a video about it.
The search giant has distanced itself from the campaign, blaming third-party marketing firm Essence Digital.
The issue was discovered by Aaron Wall, who wrote in his SEO Book blog, how he found that a...
MIT launches online learning initiative
MIT launches online learning initiative
'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called MITx. MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
allow for the individual assessment of any students work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.
MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online...
A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7
A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7
An unpatched critical flaw in 64-bit Windows 7 leaves computers vulnerable to a full 'blue screen of death' system crash.
The memory corruption bug in x64 Win 7 could also allow malicious kernel-level code to be injected into machines, security alert biz Secunia warns. Fortunately the 32-bit version of Windows 7 is immune to the flaw, which has been pinned down to the win32k.sys operating system file - which contains the kernel portion of the Windows user interface and related infrastructure.
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Google moves to delete 'RuFraud' scam Android apps
Google moves to delete 'RuFraud' scam Android apps
Google has removed 22 applications from its Android Market after they were discovered to contain fraudulent software.
Apps posing as popular third-party software such as Angry Birds tricked users into sending premium text messages.
Unlike some other app services, Android Market apps are not vetted prior to being added to the store.
Google has said it swiftly removes apps that violate its security policies.
Lookout, a mobile security company based in San Francisco, believes the fraud attempt originated from Russia.
After notifying Google of the 22 affected apps, Lookout said it then identified five more apps running the so-called "RuFraud" scam.
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World of Warcraft suffers subscriber slump
World of Warcraft suffers subscriber slump
Almost a million people have stopped paying for World of Warcraft in the last three months.
The sharp drop in subscribers was revealed by Activision Blizzard during talks with analysts about its latest financial results.
At the end of September, WoW had about 10.3 million subscribers, down from 11.1 million at the end of June.
Experts put the decline down to competition from new titles but said WoW was still very resilient.
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YouTube's website redesign puts the focus on channels
YouTube's website redesign puts the focus on channels
YouTube has revamped its website putting channels at the core of the service.
A channel is a curated list of video clips chosen by a specific YouTube member or celebrity.
Channels are now displayed in a central column on the site's home page resembling news feeds on social networks such as Facebook or Google+.
Experts say the redesign may mean people spend longer on the site, but some users have attacked the change.
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