Month: February 2008
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Renault: A secret weapon for the start of the F1 season?
There are rumours that Renault have a trick up their sleeves which they aren’t prepared to reveal until the Formula 1 season begins. read more | digg story
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Silverstone future hangs in the balance
Bernie Ecclestone has warned that time is running out to save the British Grand Prix and that he will have ‘no sentiment’ over dropped Silverstone from the Formula One calendar. read more | digg story
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Schumacher tests in DTM again
Ralf Schumacher is back testing DTM again. The German driver, who is currently taking a year out away from F1, was testing for Mercedes-Benz making it increasingly likely that he will be racing in the 2008 touring car series. read more | digg story
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Ferrari top day 2 of testing at Sakhir
Kimi Raikkonen tops the timesheets again with a best time that is signficantly faster than the pole position time from last season’s race read more | digg story
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Alonso lacks faith in R28
Recent comments show Alonso may be considering a move to Ferrari, and that he has doubts that the R28 is a championship winning F1 car. read more | digg story
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Dean Canto & Luke Youlden bolster FPR’s 2008 enduro campaign
Ford Performance Racing (FPR) is delighted to welcome Dean Canto and Luke Youlden to the Prodrive team for the 2008 V8 Supercar endurance races. read more | digg story
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Torvalds worries about patents and slow storage
Linus Torvalds has revealed he’s worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux. read more | digg story
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Telstra ‘loses game of chicken’ on ADSL2+ rollout
Telstra has officially switched on over 900 ADSL2+ exchanges, amid allegations of spin by the telco over its decision to back down on the issue of regulation. read more | digg story
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IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire Internet
A research paper shows that IBM is working on a computing system capable “of hosting the entire internet as an application.” This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputers to create a theoretical mega-system of 67.1m cores, 32PB of memory, and an IO output of 10.4Pb/s. read more | digg…
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Optus gets funds boost to build regional wireless broadband
OPTUS says almost $1 billion in government funding it won last year to build a regional wireless broadband network should hit its bank account within three months. read more | digg story