Los Alamos goes nuclear on Huawei switches as the Chinese equipment maker is under fire again

January 7, 2013 12:49 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Looks like Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei is getting slammed again. Now it's Los Alamos National Laboratory, the facility that is in charge of maintaining the United States's arsenal of nuclear weapons, that has apparently tossed out Huawei network switches.

222 years of the U.S. Census: paper to punch cards, UNIVAC to CD-ROM … to web?

July 3, 2012 9:59 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The U.S. Census Bureau has released an infographic in honor of Independence Day. The interesting part from a Silicon Valley perspective? The technology used to collect and analyze the data.

The first census was taken in 1790 with paper and …

Galaxy Nexus volume bug fixed with custom Android ROM

November 28, 2011 8:40 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

The anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus still isn’t available in the U.S., but the phone’s U.K. users have been troubled by a volume fluctuation bug since its release. Thankfully, a fix has now been found — if you’re willing to install …

How soon will Chinese developers outpace their U.S. counterparts?

October 18, 2011 5:05 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Currently, U.S.-based developers outscore their competitors in China when tested on common programming languages. However, U.S. developers lag behind in math and logic.

A new study from Gild, a service for creating and comparing developers’ skill profiles, asserts that Chinese …

White House CIO Vivek Kundra quits

June 16, 2011 2:40 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

The White House on Thursday said the first-ever chief information officer of the federal government, Vivek Kundra, will leave in August after two-and-a-half years of service. No successor to Kundra has been named.

In a blog post, Office of Management …