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Heavy e-mail users sometimes have trouble finding the needle of information they need in the haystacks of old missives lingering in their in-boxes. That's the sort of user IBM has targeted with its new OmniFind Personal E-Mail Search tool. Rolled out Thursday, IOPES is a free, semantics-based search...
As you read a sentence, its meaning may be clear even before you reach its end. This illustrates our topic. Our minds process text sequentially. As we read, the context presented to us by an author develops in our minds. What precedes clarifies what follows, and vice-versa. This phenomenon is a resu...
Amazon has added a new component to its Amazon Web Services, the online retailer announced Thursday. SimpleDB, a new Web-based service for running queries on structured data in real time, joins Amazon's other offerings, Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud, as a computing solution for in...
Toshiba will join the likes of SanDisk and Samsung by offering flash-based solid-state drives for notebook PCs during the first quarter of 2008, the company announced Monday. Incorporating flash-based SSD drives instead of traditional hard disk drives into laptop computers results in lower power con...
Micron Technology has entered the solid state drive market by announcing plans to deliver 32 GB and 64 GB SSDs in early 2008. The Boise, Idaho-based semiconductor company already produces a wide variety of DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors and other semiconductor components. Its subsidiary...
Google may be able to add storage to the list of services it provides for businesses and consumers, according to a report. The service would further the current push toward cloud computing or network-hosted applications. The service would allow users to store files normally kept on their PCs on Goog...
Personal data on roughly 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families in the United Kingdom have been lost, Chancellor Alistair Darling of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs office announced Tuesday. The lost data includes the names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and bank ...
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big B...
Microsoft and HP announced the availability of the HP MediaSmart Server running Windows Home Server. The new class of server enables consumers to protect, connect and share digital media and documents. Aimed at consumers, the MediaSmart Server is the flagship product in what Microsoft said is an ent...
Samsung has begun sampling new 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64 GB solid state drives aimed at enterprise servers and high-end PCs, the company announced Sunday. Using a super-fast SATA II/native SATA interface, the drives offer a sequential write speed of 100 MB per second and a sequential read speed of 12...
Last week was one of the busiest of the year. California, where I live, was mostly in flames, and that had me thinking about what we need to do to prepare for a catastrophic event. One of the most liked features in the new Leopard operating system from Apple -- coincidentally -- is Time Machine, whi...
IBM has announced improved storage virtualization offerings for disk and tape, including a new product and enhancements to its Virtualization Engine TS7520 tape solution. The goal in making the changes is to increase the efficiency of its storage virtualization products and bring cost savings to its...
SanDisk has renamed and launched its USBTV flash memory-based gadget, introduced in January, and says the Sansa TakeTV video player is an easy way for people to watch on the televisions video content downloaded on their computers. Described by the company as a "smart, simple and seamless way to easi...
Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery products, unveiled on Monday its expanded virtualization technology strategy, which it said will extend its reach from data center to desktop. The company's new virtualization strategy allows it to offer an application delivery infrastructure that l...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which the company expects will let it deliver small form-factor hard drives with up to four terabytes of space for desktop PCs and up to one terabyte for notebooks. The leap, which Hitac...
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