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Virginia Tech's decision to build a supercomputer out of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s -- a true break from the architecture of traditional, mainframe supercomputers -- allowed the university to cut its costs in half. According to researchers, the supercomputer represents a new model for ultra high-end ...
Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation develo...
The power blackout that struck the northern United States and Canada in August shocked industry executives into acknowledging the need to upgrade outdated grid circuitry and power-generating equipment. However, analysts and security experts now are warning that the outmoded, intrusion-prone computer...
Napster has carried its famous name into the legitimate music download arena, officially launching Napster 2.0 and challenging a sea of Windows competitors, including Apple's sweet-sounding iTunes service that sold 1 million songs to Windows users in its first three days of operation. Yankee Group s...
University of California Berkeley researchers report that the amount of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media has doubled in the last three years to five exabytes -- or 5 million terabytes. The researchers, supported by tech giants Microsoft, Intel, HP and EMC, said the a...
By responding to IBM counterclaims against it and arguing that the General Public License (GPL) that covers Linux is not enforceable and in fact violates the U.S. Constitution, Utah software company SCO has put itself in a tough position, intellectual property and software lawyers told TechNewsWorld...
Linux has received a boost from Oracle, which said it has certified its database product on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. In addition, Oracle announced it will provide support for this product running on the Linux platform. Certification -- which entails some 1,000 tests to ensure an operating system ...
Folding spam and spyware filtering into its desktop security software, Trend Micro has updated its PC-cillin Internet Security 2004 package to ward off the Internet's other evils in addition to computer viruses and worms. The Cupertino, California-based security company will be among the first to of...
In my column last week -- Pros, Priests and Zealots: The Three Faces of Linux -- I divided the folks who have been writing to me about Linux into three groups. The most controversial statement I made in that column was a comment about the last group: I wrote that I was having trouble differentiating...
Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation develo...
Dell has introduced the Dell Digital Jukebox -- or the Dell DJ -- and announced details of a partnership with MusicMatch to provide customers with an easy, legal way to download favorite songs and albums. As the next step in the company's overall strategy of moving into other markets -- especially c...
Security experts and network administrators are once again on worm watch because of the existence of exploit code for a software vulnerability in a widely used Windows service. The critical weakness lies in the Windows Messenger Service, a feature used primarily in business by systems administrators...
The U.S. Postal Service would like to add a new word to the mix of adjectives like "slow" and "inefficient" that have been used to describe it in the past. The new word is "intelligent," and it symbolizes the high-tech spark that is energizing this old-line government agency. A confluence of factors...
Facing tough questions about the direction of its heavily used and heavily targeted Windows platform, Microsoft acknowledged it has work ahead to build more effective software-management capabilities into its products while at the same time ridding those products of the vulnerabilities that continue...
Touting hands-free capabilities -- including voice recognition and audio playback of text documents -- Toshiba has rolled out its newest Pocket PCs, the e400 and e800 series. The Japanese company's e800 series also now include voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality. Toshiba said the newes...
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