IBM exceeds expectations in the second quarter

The IBM group has published Monday, July 18, a quarterly profit up 8% over the previous year, thanks to the business performance of its computers and software. The world's leading IT services has reported a net profit of 3.66 billion dollars (2.5 billion euros) in the second quarter, against 3.39 billion dollars (2.3 billion euros) a year earlier.

The revenues, meanwhile, increased 12% to $ 26.7 billion (18.56 billion euros), while analysts expected 25.35 billion dollars (17.8 billion euros). "Sales in hardware, software and services have had double-digit growth", was particularly welcomed the CEO Samuel Palmisano said in a statement.

AMD Radeon HD 7000 with PCI Express 3.0

AMD seems ready to support the new PCI Express 3.0 by the end of the year with HD 7000 Series GPUs lae produced with TSMC's manufacturing process based on architecture and 28Nm VLIW4 type.

• AMD announces the Radeon HD 6990M, has some pointed words for NVIDIA (12/07/2011)
• AMD rolls out Radeon HD 6990M - billed as the world's fastest laptop GPU (13/07/2011)
• AMD Claims the Radeon HD 6990M Is the Fastest Consumer GPU [Guts] (12/07/2011)
• AMD Releases Fastest Mobile GPU (12/07/2011)
• AMD throws down the GPU gauntlet with Radeon HD 6990M (12/07/2011)

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Cisco announced the elimination of 6,500 jobs and yield plant

The telecom equipment and computer Cisco announced Monday, July 18, 6500 deletion of positions, including 4,400 layoffs. This corresponds to a reduction of about 9% of the workforce and about 15% of senior executives. The press had already announced last week, major cuts. These reductions, which will affect the world and Tech News Buzz "all functions", part of a plan to save $ 1 billion per year (707 million).

Murdoch scandal: Hackers crack The Sun website

Suddenly appeared a hoax about the death of media mogul Rupert Murdoch: the hacker's website tabloid "The Sun" have attacked. The attack is known to the group Lulz Security - they announced further actions. London - The British tabloid "The Sun" is known in its reports and investigations to be not exactly squeamish.

Just recently, the actor has sued the newspaper Jew Law - because of the alleged wiretapping of his phone mailbox. Now, "The Sun" has become a victim of a hacker attack. The Grupe Lulz Security on Monday cracked the website and spread a false report about the alleged death of media mogul Rupert Murdoch: The 80-year-old was dead was found in his garden.

Google bought the domain name g.co

The group of search engine Google bought, Monday, July 18, the domain g. co, designed to shorten the web addresses of all its services. "We will use g co to send you to web pages belonging to Google, and we are the only pouvoircréer shortcuts in g co," said the vice president of marketing for Google, Gary Briggs, on the group Blog .

"This means we can go on a link shortcut g. co being sure to always land on a page of a product or a service from Google." This new system is complementary to another service, goo. gl, launched in late 2009, which shortens the other Web addresses. Shorter addresses are used in particular on micromessagerie sites, like Twitter, where the text should have a maximum of 140 characters.

The OSCE claims Internet access as a right

The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), which has more than fifty countries, has published a report on freedom of expression on the Internet, where he exhibited severe criticism of the policies that involve cutting Internet access to a citizen and the blocking of websites. The text, which documents the practices in different countries, believes that the measure is being imposed to block access to a site when the authorities can not require changes in content since it is housed in a third country.

Copyright: Baidu Signs Agreement with majors in music

The Chinese search engine Baidu announced on Tuesday, July 19, has signed an agreement with three majors of the music industry to fight against piracy. The partnership with Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony Music, meeting within the joint venture One Stop China, Baidu allows first to offer a legal supply from its search engine.

The site will return to tracks in MP3 format, but also to playback stream flow ("streaming"). In total, approximately 500,000 shares should be accessible from Baidu. In return, the Chinese group agrees to pay the beneficiaries, depending on the number of downloads and plays. Access to the service will only be possible for the Internet addresses of the country.