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At the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in San Jose CEO Jen-Hsun Huang talked up the company’s progress in GPU computing, showed some example applications, and announced a high-level roadmap for future graphics chip architectures. NVIDIA has three areas of focus, he said: the Quadro line for visualisation, Tesla for parallel computing, and GeForce/Tegra for …continue reading NVIDIA talks up GPU computing, presents roadmap Security vulnerabilities are reported constantly, but some have more impact than others. The one that came into prominence last weekend (though it had actually been revealed several months ago) strikes me as potentially high impact. Colourfully named the Padding Oracle attack, it was explained and demonstrated at the ekoparty security conference. In particular, the …continue reading Crisis for ASP.Net – how serious is the Padding Oracle attack? Runtime Revolution has renamed its software development IDE and runtime to LiveCode, which it says is a “modern descendent of natural-language technologies such as Apple’s HyperCard.” The emphasis is on easy and rapid development using visual development supplemented with script. It is now a cross-platform development platform that targets Windows, Mac and Linux. Android …continue reading RunRev renames product to LiveCode, supports iPad and iPhone but not Windows Phone 7 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took multiple jabs at Salesforce.com in the welcome keynote at OpenWorld yesterday. He said it was old, not fault tolerant, not elastic, and built on a bad security model since all customers share the same application. “Elastic” in this context means able to scale on demand. Ellison was introducing Oracle’s …continue reading Salesforce.com is the wrong kind of cloud says Oracle’s Larry Ellison At Oracle OpenWorld yesterday I spoke to an attendee from a global enterprise. His company is a big IBM customer and would like to standardise on DB2. To some extent it does, but there is still around 30% Oracle and significant usage of Microsoft SQL Server. Why three database platforms when they would prefer …continue reading Why Oracle is immoveable in the Enterprise I’m not able to attend the whole of Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne, but I have sneaked in to MySQL Sunday, which is a half-day pre-conference event. One of the questions that interests me: is MySQL in safe hands at Oracle, or will it be allowed to wither in order to safeguard Oracle’s closed-source database …continue reading Oracle: a good home for MySQL? Today was a significant event for the UK broadcasting industry: the announcement of YouView, formerly called Project Canvas, which is backed by partners including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, and BT. It will provide broadcasts over IP, received by a set top box, include a catch-up service, and be capable of interactive …continue reading If Microsoft is serious about Silverlight, it needs to do Linux Head over to http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ and you can download the beta of Internet Explorer 9, which is now up and running on my Windows 7 64-bit machine and looking good so far. So what’s new? In terms of the rendering engine, this is like the last Platform Preview, but a little bit further along. During …continue reading Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 beta is out Intel has launched AppUp, its application store for Windows and Moblin/MeeGo Linux. Isn’t Moblin obsolete, and now merged into MeeGo? That is the plan, but AppUp still talks about Moblin: Apparently: The Intel AppUp developer program will support MeeGo. The current Moblin SDK for the Intel AppUpSM developer program is …continue reading Intel AppUp is Up, but underwhelming. |
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