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The IBM supercomputer BlueGene/L has done it again, almost doubling its already world record-breaking speed to 183.5 teraflops -- or 183.5 trillion floating point calculations -- per second. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is building the computer to help simulate the condition o...
Motorola this week unveiled an all-new lineup of music-capable handsets -- but the long-awaited iTunes-compatible phone was nowhere to be found. The Motorola E680i, with over 2 gigabytes of memory, allows users to transfer, store, catalog and enjoy their favorite tracks. The E725 model lets users wi...
The high-profile battle over the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is about more than one woman's life. It is the beginning of an important dialogue on American views about life while science and technology progress at rapid speed. Terri Schiavo was brain damaged 15 years ago when a heart atta...
Continuing to cater to its core server audience, Dell announced new PowerEdge servers and management software aimed at small and midsize businesses, and also pledged support for the low-price servers and their 64-bit capabilities. Dell unveiled the PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 -- priced at about US$4,000...
Sony, which has spent the past year touting the Blu-ray high-definition video storage format and rallying other companies to its cause, hinted that it may be amenable to working with its rival format, HD DVD. At a news conference today, Ryoji Chubachi, head of Sony's electronic components and manufa...
In a marriage between two hot server technologies, IBM announced at the Server Blade Summit yesterday that it will bundle evaluation copies of VMWare's virtual infrastructure into its eServer BladeCenter shipments. Customers purchasing Big Blue's BladeCenter will receive six-month evaluation copies ...
The thinking inside the box for producing a personal computer for users with shallow pockets is to start subtracting features from a more expensive model until you reach the price point you want, then toss the works into the same dull cabinet as the pricier offering. Apple has shown over the years t...
Hewlett-Packard is being accused of incorrectly classifying workers as contractors in two lawsuits recently filed in U.S. District Court. The suits highlight a growing issue for technology employers, which sometimes seek to cut costs by classifying even long-term employees as contract workers. In HP...
A lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general against Vonage -- which claims the company misled VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) customers about 911 emergency service -- brings up one of the problems with emerging telecommunications technology. Customers must register for 911 service as a separat...
One reason the Internet gained as much interest as it did in its early days was the convenience that it offered individuals interested in pornography. No longer did they have to visit adult bookstores in person; with a few keystrokes the materials were delivered directly to their personal computers....
IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reach the marketplace. Big Blue released the product under its AlphaWorks program in whi...
Mobile operating system maker Symbian today announced that it has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will enable it to synchronize mobile devices running Symbian with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 applications such as e-mail, calendar and contacts. While it competes with Microsoft on the pla...
While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is out on the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumors of such a deal have been circulating for weeks. Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags to photos, making them ea...
Internet search and content giant Google, known as one of the top aggregators of news and other information online, has been sued by Agence France Press (AFP) for allegedly publishing copyrighted content without permission. The French media publisher -- which is seeking more than US$17 million in da...
The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine. The PSP will go on sale Thursday at US$250, and demand is so high that Sony's initial ...
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