Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, …
Windows 7 Will Not Sway XP Users
The chances of Windows 7 suddenly winning over Windows XP users in droves are slim to none. Windows 7 is …
Wi-Fi hotspot horrors
Laptops are the main business tool for most mobile workers, and connecting those devices to the Internet via free public …
‘Gears of War’ bug not SafeDisc DRM’s first
The anti-piracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game was also implicated in a 2007 …
Microsoft’s IE loses more share, slides to new low
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month …
Google Launches M-Lab Measurement Tools
Google launched a new public service aimed at testing your ISP's practices and performance. The Internet community has been struggling …
IBM expands SaaS ecosystem
IBM has detailed a new ISV partnership, a move which, on the heels of cloud-related agreements penned last week with …
Automated healthcare can reduce medical complications
The level of technology deployed by hospitals to help doctors and nurses automate their work can mean the difference between …
HP’s TouchSmart experience
Touch screens have mostly been limited to business-minded Tablet PCs. But HP's TouchSmart tx2 gets props for bringing touch to …
How secure is Firefox?
Mozilla's open source Firefox browser has made a significant dent in Internet Explorer's dominant market share. Much of its popularity …
Flavors of Windows 7
Windows Me may not have had much going for it, but it has one claim to fame: It was the …
Start-up VMOps aims to ease cloud deployments
Building a cloud computing infrastructure can be a complicated endeavor, but stealth start-up VMOps hopes to provide a silver lining …
Double-Take software offers GeoCluster for Microsoft Hyper-V
GeoCluster is a software-based replication solution designed to integrate seamlessly with failover clustering, removing the requirement for shared storage and …
Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that …
Scan and monitor network with Nsauditor
If you've got a solid networking background and are looking for an all-in-one tool for monitoring the safety of your …
Citrix invests in desktop virtualization
Citrix has spent the past year and a half redefining itself as a virtualization company, first purchasing the desktop and …
National Paints deploys NEC servers to boost productivity
Since its establishment in Amman (Jordan) in 1969, National Paints is now the largest paint consortium in the Middle East …
Virtual desktops getting security boost
Businesses looking for safer virtual desktops can cut the risk of attacks if they run their virtual-machine hypervisors directly on …
Recession whacks IT earnings
IT investors on Thursday got hit with a tsunami of earnings reports for the quarter ending in December. Google's report …
WhiteHouse.gov gets quick overhaul
While Barack Obama was being sworn in as president last week, his administration was unveiling a redesigned WhiteHouse.gov Web site …