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IBM and Google disclosed on an initiative the two technology heavyweights hope will help computer science students and researchers learn more about and gain experience in what has come to be known as "cloud computing." Ultimately, the goal is to create a new generation of software developers able to...
Rather than focusing on the relatively expensive and storage-shy all-flash hard drive movement, Seagate Technology is taking an intermediary step to mass produce a new line of hybrid hard drives -- the Momentus 5400 PSD. The new drives combine both flash-based memory with traditional disc drives to ...
The sharing of new technology -- particularly in the high-tech sector -- is taking place faster than ever before, yet economics, political and socio-cultural differences, vested interests and national agendas remain obstacles constraining the potential benefits. To a greater degree than in previous ...
Sharp's announcement Wednesday that it's launching Blu-ray disc recorders, including a model that sports a one-terabyte hard disk drive, has one catch for Americans planning early Christmas shopping: You can't get them because they're only being launched in Japan. The unit will sell for about $2,60...
Electronic payment systems create an ecosystem -- the actions of one participant have an impact on all. This has been seen repeatedly when a single organization fails to protect consumers' payment data, resulting in increased costs for all retailers and banks. Each time there is a breach, such as t...
IBM and TDK are jointly researching and developing a new form of high-speed computer memory that should use less power, last forever and hold information when power is lost. The companies are looking into spin momentum transfer technology as a way to create the high-capacity MRAM. Harnessing the spi...
Twenty-five years ago Friday, the very first compact disc was produced by Royal Philips Electronics at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, Germany. It was Aug. 17, 1982, and the CD was "The Visitors" by ABBA. Fast forward to today, and it's hard to imagine life before CDs were around. At the same time...
In the race for message storage space among Web-based e-mail providers, Microsoft's Hotmail has just leapfrogged Google's Gmail. Customers with a free Hotmail account now will have 5 GB of storage; those with a paid account will have 10 GB, according to a posting on the Microsoft Live Hotmail commun...
Portable hard disk drives aren't the sexiest computer peripherals in the world. They're pretty much a small box with an LED or two on them. Most disk makers have been content staying inside that box when they design their drives, but not SimpleTech. The company, which was purchased in February by Fa...
Adult movie makers in Japan have apparently found a way to have their wares mass-produced on Blu-ray Discs, something that has been hampered, to date, by Sony's antipornography policies. A Japanese company is creating adult films on the Blu-ray Disc format at a disc production facility in Taiwan tha...
The opposing camps in the high-definition DVD wars were in the midst of a fresh round of fire Thursday, when Microsoft announced a $20 price drop and free bundled movies on its Xbox 360 HD DVD Player. Starting Aug. 1, the price of the Xbox 360 add-on will fall from $199 to $179, the company said. In...
Networking hardware and software maker Cisco announced an array of data center products gathered under the umbrella moniker Data Center 3.0. The vision for Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and net...
EMC, a maker of information infrastructure technology, launched a new lineup of storage systems and software designed to aid business users of all sizes securely and intelligently store information in a more cost-effective manner. The new systems range from entry-level devices to high-end. EMC has k...
Cisco Systems, EMC and Microsoft have formed an alliance to facilitate the protection and sharing of sensitive government information. The Secure Information Sharing Architecture Alliance, which also includes Liquid Machines, Swan Island Networks and Titus Labs, aims to develop IT architectures that...
The European Commission has asked major Hollywood movie studios to provide information about their choices of high-definition DVD formats as part of an informal examination for the possibility of antitrust activity. The two competing standards -- HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc -- have each won exclusive su...
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