Fujitsu Supercomputer Remains World Champ, but IBM and Intel Are the Real Computing Kings

The latest edition of the semiannual Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is out. Strangely, there’s no movement among the Top 10, and yet there’s still plenty to talk about.
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Fujitsu Beefs Up Its Best Supercomputer

A Japanese computer that this summer was the most powerful in the world just got a little more powerful, but not so much as to catch the brawniest American machine. At least not yet.
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Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever

The biggest network intrusion ever has been carried out since 2006 against organizations in 72 countries. You get three guesses who the attacker is thought to be, but you probably only need one. Need a hint? It wasn’t LulzSec.
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Vivek Kundra On Pushing the Federal Government Cloudward

The CIO of the United States oversees the biggest IT budget on the planet. He has a plan to move 78 different government IT projects to cloud-based services and save at least $5 billion within one year. He shared his list with us, and we’re sharing it with you.
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Upwardly Mobile Email Usage

A self-evident, but nonetheless noteworthy, data point with which to begin the day: More of us than ever are checking our email via mobile devices, and we’re doing it more frequently–to the detriment of Web mail usage.

Nielsen: Young People Across The Globe Love Their Cell Phones (But Use Them Differently)

According to a a new report, China is the biggest spot for the mobile Internet, with 73 percent of Chinese youths age 15 to 24 citing mobile Internet usage as among the things they used their cell phones for in the past month. That compares to less than half of American and British young people and less than a quarter of those in the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, young women in most countries were more likely than males to send text or picture messages, although the opposite was true in India, China and Brazil.

Google Expected to Outgrow Apple in Mobile Display Ad Market in 2011

The mobile advertising market is ballooning, as is Google’s share of it. Of the $877 million spent on mobile advertising in the United States this year, 59 percent of it went to the search sovereign, according to an updated assessment by IDC. In the mobile display advertising market, things were a bit different…but not for long.
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Galaxy Quest: Samsung Now King of the Androids

Motorola’s Droid is no longer the doer it once was when it first debuted–in market share terms, anyway. The company has ceded its Android crown to Samsung, which now ranks as first in the United States among Android manufacturers.

GSA Goes Google

The General Services Administration–which oversees government procurement–will soon become the first major federal office to move to cloud-based office apps on an agency-wide basis. And it’s chosen Google Apps to do it.

The Mobile OS World: Symbian, iOS Are Superpowers; Android a Developing Nation

Some sobering data points for the Droid army and a reminder that the Android onslaught is still largely a domestic phenomenon (for Koreans). Mobile Web usage statistics for the month of October compiled by StatCounter and Royal Pingdom reveal Apple’s iOS and Nokia’s Symbian as the dominant platforms, with Android besting them in a single country.

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