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Компания Hightech Information System (HIS) объявила о выпуске видеокарты 7870 Fan 2 GB. Новинка получила ту же систему охлаждения, что и модель 7850 Fan 2 GB , представленная двумя неделями ранее. По оценке производителя, решение собственной разработки справляется с охлаждением видеокарты на 13C лучше референсного кулера. При этом создаваемый им уровень шума не превышает 28 дБ. Модель оснащена 2 ГБ памяти GDDR5, которая связана с GPU с помощью 256-битной шины. Тактовые частоты компонентов устройства соответствуют штатным, а именно: 1000 МГц для GPU и 4800 МГц для памяти. В комплект поставки входит фирменная утилита iTurbo, позволяющая управлять частотами, напряжением питания и работой вентиляторов, а также повысить производительность 3D-карты буквально одним нажатием кнопки. Цена модели HIS 7870 Fan 2 GB на данный момент неизвестна. Источник: HIS #vk ixbt.com »

When Matt Kozlov walks through the halls of the super-powerful Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency each morning, he works alongside agents and managers for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. His job? Helping to create celebrity-based apps for the Apple and Android mobile platforms. Kozlov is CEO of Moonshark, a new start-up set to release its first titles in the summer. His firm is being incubated at CAA, best-known for its muscle in getting huge paydays for its A-list talent roster in movies, TV shows, music and sports. CAA has also recently ventured into Internet start-ups, founding companies it hopes will one day see the type of paydays exhibited recently by photo-sharing appmaker Instagram, which was bought by Facebook for $1 billion. "We're really active in developing companies we think will make a difference, and that we can take to the next level with CAA," says Michael Yanover, CAA's head of business development. Yanover, who previously worked in new media at software firm Macromedia before it was acquired by Adobe, acts as an in-house broker, putting folks together from both CAA's client list and contacts he's picked up through the years. CAA's biggest hit is Funny or Die, a top comedy Web site owned by Sequoia Capital, CAA, actor Will Ferrell (Elf) and his production partners. The idea started with Sequoia, which wanted to do a sequel to YouTube, which it helped finance, with professional content. Yanover put the Silicon Valley investors together with Ferrell. Getting WhoSay Going Other CAA Internet properties started with Yanover. He began WhoSay as a way to offer clients more control over how their images were being used online. He reached out to Steve Ellis, who founded and sold the Pump Audio Web site, and together they got WhoSay running. Some $7 million in financing has been raised, including from Amazon... newsfactor.com »

This time it wasn't Anonymous or some other hacking group trying to make a name for itself. The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services can blame one of its own for the security black eye it just took. The agency last week discovered that a Medicaid employee inappropriately transferred personal information for 228,435 Medicaid beneficiaries to his personal e-mail account. Not only was it a blatant violation of agency policy, it also put the personal identities of nearly a quarter million Americans at risk. Christopher Lykes Jr., 36, was arrested Thursday for allegedly committing the crime. Lykes, a project manager for the agency, was immediately terminated while law enforcement officials conducted their investigation. It is yet unclear what he planned to do with the information. Blame the Browser We asked Bill Morrow, executive chairman and CEO of Quarri Technologies, for his thoughts on the breach and what other organizations can learn from the internal theft. His first thought: Blame it on the browser. "The risk of this type of transfer of confidential information by an employee is all too common at many organizations because they are increasingly using browsers as the primary platform for the delivery of information and making them the primary point of theft or data leakage," Morrow said. As he has said before, standard Web browsers contain critical security gaps that create significant risks to organizations' confidential data, and online resources like Web mail and social networking sites can be open windows for data leakage. That sets the stage for a careless or malicious employee to easily steal company trade secrets, intellectual property or leak sensitive customer information. "The end user is often the weakest link on any corporate network, since one malicious or unintentional click can lead to identity theft for hundreds of thousands of customers and patients," Morrow said.... newsfactor.com »

A feud over the riches of South Korea's Samsung business empire has erupted in public as family members prepare to take an inheritance battle to court. Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., which is the flagship company of the Samsung conglomerate, is facing off against his older brother, a sister and a nephew's wife who all want a bigger piece of the Samsung cake. The court battle might upset a dynastic succession in Samsung's leadership as it could result in the unraveling of a cross-shareholding structure that allows Lee Kun-hee to control the group as a minority shareholder. Lee, who is South Korea's wealthiest individual, on Tuesday took the rare step of publicly attacking his brother, Lee Meng-hee, declaring on YTN television that the 81-year-old "has been already kicked out from our home." Lee Meng-hee had earlier called his brother "greedy" and "childlike." Battles for control of Chaebol, South Korea's family-controlled industrial groups that wield immense power over the economy, are not uncommon but it is unusual for the internal wrangling to become public. Lee Meng-hee filed a lawsuit in February, demanding more than 700 billion won ($613 million) of shares in Samsung Life Insurance Co. and other companies. Similar claims followed by Lee's older sister and the wife of a dead nephew. Lee Kun-hee, the third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull, was tapped in 1979 by his father to lead what would become South Korea's most valuable company. The decision apparently disappointed Lee Meng-hee who later wrote in his autobiography that he had thought his father would turn over the throne to him. The 70-year-old Samsung chairman has refused to settle the dispute out of court. A date for the first hearing in the case will be announced after the court reviews responses from Samsung, said lawyer Jeong Jin-su of Yoon & Yang LLC,... newsfactor.com »

Источник сообщает, что компания HIS выпустила 3D-карту Radeon HD 7770 с фирменной системой охлаждения, разогнанную в заводских условиях. Новинка, получившая обозначение HD 7770 IceQ X iTurbo X, пока отсутствует в онлайновом каталоге HIS, но в Сети уже появились не только все технические подробности, но и изображения изделия. Ключевыми компонентами карты являются 28-нанометровый GPU Radeon HD 7770 (Cape Verde) с 640 потоковыми процессорами Graphics CoreNext и 1 ГБ памяти GDDR5, связанные между собой 128-разрядной шиной. Графический процессор HD 7770 IceQ X iTurbo X работает на частоте 1170 МГц, память - на частоте 1250 МГц (эфф. 5000 МГц). Референсные значения равны 1000 и 1125 МГц соответственно. Охладитель, полностью прикрывающий печатную плату черного цвета, является несколько видоизмененной системой охлаждения IceQ X, которую можно обнаружить на 3D-картах HD 6770 IceQ X. Говоря более конкретно, изменена форма радиатора и тепловых трубок, а также раскраска кулера. Изделие получает дополнительное питание по одному шестиштырьковому разъему питания. На монтажной планке выстроены в один два разъема mini-DisplayPort и по одному разъему DVI и HDMI. О цене о сроке начала продаж изделия данных нет. Источник: Expreview #vk ixbt.com »

The newest board member of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Thursday that a turnaround could take three to five years. Prem Watsa, RIM's third-largest investor, said he sees his investment in the company as a long-term one, adding that RIM's fortunes won't be reversed soon. The once-iconic maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is facing its most difficult period in its history. Americans are abandoning their BlackBerrys for flashier touch-screen phones such as Apple's iPhone and models that run Google's Android software, including those made by Samsung Electronics Co. "Is it going to turn around in three months, six months, nine months? No," Watsa said. "Three years or five years is how I'm looking at it. But there's no guarantees. You've seen all the earnings from Apple. It's not easy to compete with Apple or Samsung or the Android group of companies." Apple reported another strong quarter on Tuesday. The company sold 35 million iPhones in the January-to-March quarter, almost twice as many as it sold a year ago. Apple nearly doubled its quarterly profits. By contrast RIM shipped 11.1 million BlackBerrys in the latest quarter and has written down the value of its product inventory in its past two quarters. Watsa is one of Canada's best-known value investors and the billionaire founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. He has been compared to Warren Buffett because of his investing approach. RIM founder Mike Lazaridis recruited Watsa to join RIM's board when Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped aside as RIM's co-CEOs in January. Watsa increased his stake in the Canadian company from 2.2 percent to more than 5 percent. Lazaridis is RIM's largest investor with a 5.7 percent stake while U.S. money management firm Primecap Management owns 5.5 percent. Balsillie once had a stake on par with Lazaridis but now owns just 0.4 percent. He sold off much of RIM's... newsfactor.com »

Google may have thought it dodged a bullet recently after the Federal Communications Commission imposed a small fine for impeding investigation into the company's Street View project, then dropped the matter. But new developments indicate the controversy could be coming back. On Monday, The New York Times published a story identifying the Google engineer who wrote the software that collected private electronic data as the Street View cars were cruising streets around the U.S. and other countries, primarily to take photos for Google Maps. The FCC had noted that it had been unable to continue its investigation in part because the engineer had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Rogue Engineer? The Times reported that the engineer was Marius Milner, who is said to be highly regarded in Wi-Fi networking. The FCC had said it knew the engineer's name from Google, which had identified him to state investigators, but the FCC had chosen to describe him as Engineer Doe. More important, his explanations in the recently released full FCC report contradicted Google's contention that the data-gathering software was the act of a rogue employee. The released FCC report said that Milner told at least one supervisor and as many as seven other engineers about his efforts, and that data harvesting without a great deal of regard for privacy was a regular mode of working at Google. He also said that his intentions were outlined in a proposal to his managers. That revelation has led at least one consumer advocacy group to file a federal Freedom of Information Act request with the FCC, seeking all related documents. Additionally, new reports on Wednesday indicate that privacy regulators in Great Britain, France, and Germany may reopen or expand their investigations, since this latest bit of information contradicts Google's explanation to them, and suggests there might be wider infringements. Up until... newsfactor.com »

The Federal Communications Commission will auction 65 megahertz of spectrum to the highest bidder in the next three months for mobile broadband use, push deregulation and continue to offer incentives for companies to free up spectrum they are no longer using, the commission's chairman said Tuesday. In his annual address to the convention of CTIA-The Wireless Association, held this year in New Orleans, Julius Genachowski called for using "new tools to solve new problems." Cashing In "Auctions have been a huge success," the chairman said, according to a transcript of his remakes on the FCC Web site. "Pioneered in America, they have raised over $50 billion for the Treasury and unleashed hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits for our economy. "Of course, it's become more difficult to find spectrum to auction, but, to borrow a phrase, reports of the spectrum auction's demise have been greatly exaggerated." Genachowski said it was also crucial to identify and remove regulations that prevented spectrum from being used as needed today, "With AWS-4, also known as the 'MSS S-Band,' we recently launched a rulemaking to convert 40 megahertz of prime spectrum from satellite to terrestrial use. We expect to issue new rules by year end," he said. Genachowski said he was working to remove an "outdated rule" that restricted long-term evolution high speed data networks to 25 kilohertz channels, to allow its rollout in the 800 megahertz band. "We're not only removing barriers to flexible use of spectrum, we are also eliminating barriers to wireless infrastructure buildout," he said, citing a new initiative that puts a 90-day "shot-clock" on the approval process for tower and antenna siting. "The shot-clock idea originated with CTIA, and our doors remain open to ideas for removing unnecessary barriers to wireless buildout," said the chairman. During his three-year tenure, Genachowski has earned a reputation... newsfactor.com »

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is sorry for allowing an inaccuracy about his education to appear in his official biography, but not remorseful enough to heed calls for him to resign. Thompson apologized for the uproar caused by the misinformation in a memo sent Monday to the troubled Internet company's employees. Yahoo Inc. provided a copy of the memo to The Associated Press. The memo didn't offer any explanation why Thompson's bio has periodically listed a bachelor's degree in computer science that he never received. The exaggeration was most recently repeated in documents that Yahoo filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "We have all been working very hard to move the company forward, and this has had the opposite effect," Thompson wrote. "For that, I take full responsibility, and I want to apologize to you." He assured Yahoo employees that he remains focused on taking the steps that he believes are needed to revive Yahoo's revenue growth and boost its long-sagging stock, even with his own job imperiled. Thompson's note of contrition came on the same day that an activist hedge fund that owns a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo escalated its effort to oust the CEO for unethical conduct. The fund, Third Point LLC, issued a legal demand to review internal Yahoo documents that may explain how much research the company's board did about Thompson's background before hiring him in January. Third Point contends it's entitled to the records under the laws of Delaware, where Yahoo is incorporated. Yahoo didn't respond to requests for comments about Third Point's demand. After initially brushing off the misinformation as an "inadvertent error," Yahoo's board opened an investigation into the circumstances that led to the computer science degree being included in Thompson's bio. Thompson told employees that he "respects the process" and will provide whatever information the board requests. Besides... newsfactor.com »

Problems persist for Internet giant Yahoo. Yahoo's board will probe the vetting process of recently hired CEO Scott Thompson, who has come under fire for a resume inaccurately stating that he holds a degree in computer science. The move comes as pressure mounts from activist hedge fund Third Point, Yahoo's largest outside shareholder, to ax Thompson, who is in the midst of efforts to turn around the troubled company so it can better grow its core advertising business and gain greater traction with younger mobile users of social media. Yahoo on Tuesday said it has formed a special committee of recently appointed board members -- Alfred Amoroso, John Hayes and Thomas McInerney -- to investigate Thompson's academic credentials and the review process in his hiring. In a memo, Thompson late Monday apologized to Yahoo employees for the inaccuracy in his resume that claimed he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College, near Boston. He has a degree in accounting. The rsum claim appeared on the company's Web site as well as in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Patti Hart, who led the Yahoo search committee that hired Thompson in January, will not seek re-election to Yahoo's board, the company announced Tuesday. Actions taken by the board "are standard and reasonable moves to take under these circumstances," says Steve Diamond, an associate professor of law at Santa Clara (Calif.) University School of Law. Thompson was hired in January to revitalize the company. As part of his plan, he last month laid off 2,000 employees, or 14% of Yahoo's workforce. He is also looking to close or sell about 50 Yahoo services and is exploring selling part of Yahoo's roughly 40% stake in Alibaba Group, a thriving Chinese Internet company that investors view as Yahoo's most valuable asset. Also happening: Third Point aims to gain... newsfactor.com »

After the revelation that his resume was puffed up with unearned educational credentials, Yahoo on Sunday announced the resignation of CEO Scott Thompson. Thompson replaced the ousted Carol Bartz as chief just four months ago, in January. The controversy began earlier this month when Daniel Loeb, CEO of Third Point, took issue with Thompson and the board. Loeb, whose fund owns a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo, was reportedly trying to shake up the board with the revelation that Thompson doesn't have a bachelor's degree in computer science as is indicated on his resume. If that was his intention, it worked. In addition to Thompson resigning, Ross Levinsohn moved from non-executive chair to interim CEO, and director Fred Amoroso will become chairman, replacing Roy Bostock, the non-executive chairman, who is leaving the board immediately. Those moves helped Yahoo reach an agreement with Third Point to settle a pending proxy contest related to its 2012 annual meeting of shareholders. Was Thompson Too Impolitic? Under the board's settlement agreement with Third Point, three Third Point nominees -- Loeb, Harry J. Wilson, and Michael J. Wolf -- will join the Yahoo board. As interim CEO, Levinsohn will manage the company's day-to-day operations. We caught up with Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, to get his thoughts on Thompson's resignation. When news of the resume issue first arose, Sterling, among many others, didn't think it would derail Thompson's role at Yahoo. "I think there are a number of things going on in Scott Thompson's resignation-termination, or forced resignation, if you prefer. The scandal over his resume wouldn't go away," Sterling said. "That was in part because it was being used by hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb as part of a proxy fight with Yahoo. Loeb helped create and fueled the PR crisis to gain leverage in negotiations. He now... newsfactor.com »

For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week -- from birthday, to IPO, to I DO. A day after the historic Facebook stock offering, Zuckerberg on Saturday wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nearly a decade, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity. Zuckerberg gave his new bride a ring he had designed with a "very simple ruby" to end an incredibly eventful week, according to the guest. The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Chan's graduation from medical school. On Monday, Zuckerberg turned 28 and Chan graduated from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she'd studied pediatrics. Then on Friday, Zuckerberg took his blue-and-white web behemoth public in one of the most anticipated IPOs in Wall Street history. The seemingly well-coordinated timing was largely a coincidence, the guest said. The wedding had been planned for months and the couple was waiting for Chan to finish medical school, but the date of the IPO was a "moving target" not known when the wedding was set. Attendees, including Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, were told after they arrived that they were not mere party guests but wedding guests. "Everybody was shocked," the guest said. The person would not discuss the names of others who attended to protect their privacy. Ditching his trademark hoodie and sneakers, Zuckerberg sported a dark blue suit and tie with a white shirt for the ceremony, while Chan wore a traditional white wedding dress with veil and lace. Food was served family-style and included dishes from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant. Zuckerberg met Chan at Harvard, where he founded Facebook in a dorm room... newsfactor.com »