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Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms were not disclosed. What CRL brings to the party is the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world, a beast that Yahoo figures has ’substantially more processors than any other supercomputer currently available for cloud research’ - 14,400 of them to be precise along with 28TB of memory, 140TB of disk space, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations a second and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops.

Stoneware is a privately held corporation providing innovative software that delivers ‘Universal Web Access’ to all of an organization’s web, Windows, and hosted applications through a ‘Virtualized Web Desktop’ interface. Based on Web 2.0 technology, Stoneware’s webOS is an offering in the virtualization market, focusing on the growth of web applications and the shift from client/server to cloud computing. The company services various sectors including education, manufacturing, medical, and legal industries.

Steve Jobs may not think much of Flash but Qualcomm apparently feels differently and has been collaborating with Adobe on a mobile platform that integrates Flash with its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) client software and, voilà, the BREW Mobile Platform, which the pair says will create a ‘new standard for mass-market handset platforms.’

I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “You can’t make stuff like this up. The EU is actually testing a prototype system of cameras in airplanes to monitor passengers’ facial expressions in order to detect both terrorism and ‘air rage.’ The Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project used an Airbus A380 fuselage with six wide-angle cameras to watch for people running or loitering near the cockpit door, as well as a camera in the back of every seat to watch for facecrime like sweating too much, or acting nervous. But that’s okay, because the system won’t alert anyone until it sees a ‘combination of signs,’ instead of just one stray expression, or they might accidentally catch a lot of people who are afraid of flying or of being watched.”

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Progress Software announced that the Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Company (FAMI) will deploy the Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in order to streamline its enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure and integrate several discrete applications, which are dispersed across various platforms. FAMI is undergoing a multi-year cost optimization project within their IT environment and regards the Sonic ESB as an integral part of their ability to reduce costs.

Fitch Ratings has selected and implemented LakeFrontData’s Reference Data Factory (RDF) for its’ Securities Reference Data Management platform. Fitch selected LakeFrontData’s RDF for its’ reference data management platform having already chosen a service oriented architecture (SOA) as its forward thinking business-driven technology approach.

Fallen Andy notes that Comcast, one of the largest US ISPs, lost control of its domain name to what appeared to be juvenile social engineers of the old school — i.e. not in it for the money. The intruders got into Comcast’s registrar account at Network Solutions and repointed the domain’s DNS records. A blog entry at SANS points out how trivially easy this can be. Reader ElvenKnight points out an insightful interview up at Wired with the two young guys who perpetrated the hack.

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