Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies' first joint product …
HP MediaSmart home servers get cozier with Macs
Hewlett-Packard is introducing its third generation of MediaSmart home servers, with more features for Mac users and multimedia-philes. The EX490 …
Domain-name abuse proliferates
For legitimate businesses, a domain name is a way to hang a shingle in cyberspace. In the criminal world, domain …
Migrating to all-IP surveillance
All-IP video security leverages your investment in network infrastructure, and is simpler, more elegant and accessible to users across the …
AMD's new laptop platform improves on graphics
AMD introduced new processors and improved graphics capabilities as part of its latest laptop platform that could up the ante …
Screens still growing on mini-notebooks and netbooks
Netbook sales keep growing, as do the sizes of their displays. Of the tiny laptops available today, eight out of …
Red Hat releases first KVM support with RHEL 5.4
Red Hat for the first time included KVM hypervisor technology in a release of its Enterprise Linux operating system, kicking …
Supercomputer uses flash storage drives
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve …
Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs but suffer glitches
A year after introducing the Nexus 1000 virtual switch, Cisco is using that switch and its unified computing system servers …
Smartbooks prepare to compete in mini-laptop space
Mini-laptops based on Arm chips are set to make their way to users, which could heat up the battle in …
Sharp to launch ultramobile device with Arm chip
Sharp Electronics this week introduced a netbook-like mobile device with a 5-inch touch screen that is designed to run Internet-based …
Gigabit Ethernet fit for a tank
Ethernet continues to go places its inventors probably never imagined. This week GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms got a $645,000 contract …
Desktop multiprocessing: Not so fast
Until recently, you could reasonably expect this year's software to run faster on next year's machines, but that's not necessarily …
Lenovo, targeting HP, releases quartet of 'digital home' PCs
Best known for its conservative Thinkpad business laptops, Lenovo Group Ltd. is trying its best to break out of that …
Riding the tide
How is Xerox along with its partners responding to the slowdown? No business is immune from the downturn impacting economies …
Lenovo aims multi-wireless laptops at SMBs
The ThinkPad SL300 range of notebooks from Lenovo runs several editions of Windows Vista and has a range of built-in …
Mac clone maker takes testimony from senior Apple execs
Lawyers for the Mac clone maker fighting with Apple over copyright infringement charges have taken testimony from Philip Schiller, Apple's …
WiMax on the radar
WiMax is in trials around the region, with users getting close to 4Mbps performance, a huge boost over current 3G …
The cloud, brought to you by flash storage
Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two of the fastest-growing technologies in IT, may drive each other forward as Internet-based service …
Nvidia takes charge for faulty graphics chips
Nvidia Corp. disclosed a charge of $119.1 million for its second fiscal quarter, ended July 26, to cover costs related …