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NVIDIA has released version 4.1 of its CUDA Toolkit for general purpose GPU computing. There is a lot in this release, including a compiler based on LLVM, which will make it easier to support other programming languages; 1000 new imaging functions; and a re-designed visual profiler. There is also an update to …continue reading NVIDIA releases CUDA Toolkit 4.1 with LLVM compiler I had a call last night from a small business whose email no longer worked. They had applied updates to the server but Exchange had failed to restart. Looking at the services it was easy to see why. All the Exchange services and certain others including the IIS web server were set to disabled: …continue reading Fixing a Small Business Server 2008 broken by updates It is almost one year since Nokia’s dramatic announcement that it would transition its smartphone range to Windows Phone. Today the company released its results for the fourth quarter and for the full year 2011, the first since the release of the the Lumia range of Windows Phone devices. How it is doing? This …continue reading Nokia results: hope for Windows Phone? Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2012 on March 7th 2012. In Microsoft’s world “launches” do not always coincide with the availability of release code, which may come before or after, but they are usually not far apart. The big news in SQL Server 2012 is in new BI (Business Intelligence) features and the ability …continue reading Microsoft LocalDB: another option for local databases When Adobe announced a shift in its business strategy in November, it was not clear what the implications were for the products that were no longer favoured. Since then bits of information have dripped out, presumably as the company itself works out its priorities. In December developers learned that Flash Catalyst would be discontinued …continue reading Adobe sheds more light on its LiveCycle plans–but what is happening to its Digital Enterprise Platform? If we are really in the post-PC era, then one of two things will happen. Either Microsoft will make a big success of non-PC products, or it will start delivering shocking financial results. Neither is yet true. Here are the results just announced, broken down into a simple table. Quarter ending December 31st 2011 …continue reading Microsoft financials: Windows under stress, Server and Office making up I spoke to Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie yesterday, just before today’s announcement of the opening of an EMEA headquarters in Reading. It has only 4 or 5 staff at the moment, mostly sales and marketing, but will expand into professional services and training. Appcelerator’s product is a cross-platform (though see below) development platform for …continue reading Appcelerator CEO on EMEA expansion, Titanium vs PhoneGap, and how WebKit drives HTML5 standards All Wikipedia English requests today redirect to a page protesting against proposed US legislation, specifically the draft SOPA and PIPA legislation. Other sites will also be protesting, including Reddit (a 12 hour protest) and Mozilla, the Firefox people. Many web searchers will be discovering the value of the cached pages held by search …continue reading Wikipedia goes dark for a day to protest against proposed US legislation Microsoft has announced the Resilient File System (ReFS), a replacement for the NTFS file system which has been used since the first release of Windows NT in 1993. The new file system increases limits in NTFS as follows: NTFS ReFS Max file size 2^64 -1 2^64-1 bytes Max volume size 2^40 bytes 2^78 …continue reading Meet Resilient File System (ReFS), a new file system for Windows |
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