After the apparent collapse of acquisition talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun faces a choice: continue looking for …
MIT develops method to draw finer features on chips
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have made a breakthrough with light technology that could eventually help …
New processor technology promises big boost to consumer-grade SSDs
SandForce Inc. announced today a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity …
Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord
Trend Micro Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products that put the focus on Trend's cloud-based architecture and …
Netbook computers spark corporate interest
One possible future of mobile computing is on display in classrooms in Fresno, Calif., where the public school district has …
RSA upgrades data leak prevention suite
EMC's RSA division announced an upgraded version of its data-leak prevention suite, adding over twenty policy templates for recognizing personal …
Microsoft’s ‘Apple tax’ claims are ‘stupid,’ counters analyst
Microsoft Corp.'s claim that customers pay a $3,400 “Apple tax” when they buy Macs rather than Windows-based PCs is “silly” …
Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam
Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages …
Feds join Twitter revolution
Twitter is taking flight in unlikely skies: the U.S. federal government. From NASA to the General Services Administration, more federal …
As expected, Facebook halts The Pirate Bay links
Facebook has ended its brief e-relationship with The Pirate Bay, the controversial BitTorrent search engine. The Pirate Bay added a …
Bluetooth group to release spec for Wi-Fi
On schedule, Bluetooth is about to get a big boost in data rate and in some cases distance. On April …
Brocade switch joins emerging storage, network standards
Brocade has unveiled a switch and network adapters that join Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) into …
Fiber cuts slash Silicon Valley’s Internet arteries
Cuts in fiber-optic lines early Thursday at two locations near Silicon Valley shut down two IBM facilities and affected an …
Users warned of virtualization’s ‘dark side’
Users are paying little attention to some of the downsides of virtualization in their haste to reap the benefits that …