Joab Jackson - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Joab Jackson

Article | 12/11/2012 Cray bumps IBM from Top500 supercomputer top spot

The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest super...

Article | 9/11/2012 NYC corporate partnership seeks fresh financial tech

A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies.

Article | 8/11/2012 Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle

Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert.

Article | 8/11/2012 Twitter error leads to reset passwords, confusion among users

Twitter appears to have reset the passwords for an undetermined portion of its user base because of a possible security breach.

Article | 8/11/2012 Twitter asks many users to change passwords

Twitter appears to have reset the passwords for an undetermined portion of its user base because of a possible security breach.

Article | 8/11/2012 Cray's next supercomputer has speedy interconnect

For its next generation of supercomputers, Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O (input/output) of individual nodes. The new XC30 supercompu...

Article | 7/11/2012 Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management...

Article | 6/11/2012 HP simplifies automated software testing suite

Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components, previously available separately, into its HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automated t...

Article | 5/11/2012 Microsoft updates C++ compiler

Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 IDE (integrated development environment) so that Windows application developers can us...

Article | 2/11/2012 Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills

Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the op...

Article | 1/11/2012 Microsoft launches hosted ALM service

After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its...

Article | 31/10/2012 CA updates Clarity PPM software

CA Technologies has updated its Clarity project and portfolio management software to accommodate more comprehensive long-term planning.

Article | 30/10/2012 Splunk 5 offers fault-tolerant indexing for mission-critical applications

The new version of the Splunk machine data search engine comes with a distributed indexing technology that could save storage costs for those customer...

Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8 SDK

One day after the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has released the SDK (software development kit) th...

Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft CEO Ballmer touts Windows 8 momentum

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company's annual Build developer conference emphasizing the momentum of the company's new Windows 8 and Win...