Parallel computing software beats shogi champion

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited has announced that a software program developed for the game of shogi - a Japanese board game with similarities to chess - recently won a match against one of Japan's shogi masters. "Bonkras," a shogi software program developed by one of Fujitsu's researchers, Eiki Ito, took 113 moves to overcome former shogi champion Kunio Yonenaga of the Japan Shogi Association on... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Is it time companies took a relook at private cloud?

In an online broadcast from Microsoft Corp. headquarters, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, laid out how Microsofts private cloud solution will help businesses move faster, save money and better compete in 2012. He highlighted how companies, such as webcast participants Lufthansa Systems, T. Rowe Price and Unilever, can use Microsoft System Center 2012 to build and... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Siemens, Frontal to speed up PLM adoption

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, and Frontal Software, an industrial IT solutions provider, have announced a partnership to help companies accelerate their adoption of PLM solutions.PLM is emerging as an important area of investment by manufacturers, with improvements in product development collaboration and time-to-market being the primary... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Optical signing device to prevent bank frauds

SafeNet has announced the availability of a new identity and transaction protection solution that addresses multiple levels of risk associated with online banking and trading transactions. SafeNets new eToken 3500 is an electronic signing and authentication token-based device that will enable financial services organizations to successfully achieve the right balance of risk mitigation, cost-... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Wikipedia to shut down for a day to protest antipiracy bill

There is a controversial antipiracy bill currently being debated in the Congress, called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - and Wikipedia has decided to join several other groups to protest against it. As a mark of its protest, Wikipedia founder has indicated that the popular website's English version will be off the hook for 24 hours. Other sites in the US that have announced similar protests... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Symphony automates app testing with HP suite

HP has announced that R&D services company Symphony Services has selected HP Software solutions to help its customers reduce software development times by up to 30 percent.To sustain competitive advantage, organisations in India are looking to speed innovation, while driving growth and profitability. High quality business applications that embrace areas like cloud and mobility are key to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

IBM unveils advanced analytics software

IBM recently announced a new identity intelligence breakthrough designed in IBM labs to provide corporations with a far more sophisticated approach to managing the information employees can access. An employee's unauthorized access to client information can leave a firm vulnerable to security breaches and audits. Many companies juggle the administration of identifying, managing and approving... By sanjay.gupta gupta

HP joins hands with Karnataka govt and IIIT-B on IPv6

HP has signed a partnership agreement with the Government of Karnataka (GOK) and International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) to conduct a pilot project that will help organizations in Karnataka through a smooth transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).The current version of IP addressing, IPv4, is reaching its theoretical maximum of about 4 billion internet... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Stressed? Revive a Sporting Passion

Not everyone who plays badminton would emerge like Pullela Gopichand or Prakash Padukone, India's former badminton champions, says Somasekhar Gonuguntla (Somu), Project Manager at Tesco HSC (Hindustan Service Centre) in Bangalore. I have enjoyed watching these champions play but I play badminton only as sport for fitness and relaxation and have been doing so from school days, says the winner of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

CA launches next-gen application performance mgmt soln

CA Technologies has announced the availability of CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) 9.1, touted as the industrys first and only unified application, infrastructure and network performance solution. CA APM claims to give customers better control of the end-user experience by providing improved visibility across a hybrid-cloud infrastructure.Unlike vendor offerings that require... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Worldwide PC shipments decline 1.4% in Q4 2011

After two quarters of positive growth, worldwide PC shipments totaled 92.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 1.4 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2010, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. These figures were in line with Gartners earlier forecast of a 1 percent decline for the fourth quarter of 2011.Continuously low consumer PC demand resulted in weak holiday... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Now a Big Data Appliance from Oracle

Oracle forged a partnership with pioneering Apache Hadoop interface/tools provider Cloudera to create a specific distribution for the new Big Data Appliance. Even though Oracle launched its 12-petabyte data-storage Exadata server in 2008 and its cloud database/analytics Exalogic server to equally high visibility two years later, it still believes it needs a product that is actually named "big... By sanjay.gupta gupta