RFID Puts Us All at Risk

I've never really thought of myself as much of a seer, prognosticator or predictor of the future, but based on…

16 years ago

UK Academics Launch Open Source PC Power Saver

The University of Liverpool's PowerDown can shut down idle PCs, saving users thousands of pounds.

16 years ago

NetApp Drops SMB Storage

Storage company NetApp quietly axed its line of midmarket-based storage solutions, StoreVault.

16 years ago

Microsoft Changes Windows 7 UAC

Microsoft has agreed that Windows 7 will generate a prompt if there is an attempt to change the user account…

16 years ago

Wozniak Joins Storage Startup

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has signed up as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-basedcompany that makes compact NAND…

16 years ago

Intel Delays ‘Tukwila’ Chip Again

Intel has delayed the four-core "Tukwila" `version of its Itanium processor, originally billed as the first 2 billion transistor chip…

16 years ago

Green Grid Measures Data Centre Efficiency

The Green Grid consortium has issued a set of guidelines to solve one of the trickiest issues facing sustainable computing…

16 years ago

Where Does Malware Come From?

Anti-virus vendors are getting more than 50,000 submissions of new malware per day now. How can the malware business be…

16 years ago

Lenovo Boss Quits as PC Maker Reports A Loss

ThinkPad maker Lenovo posted its first quarterly loss in three years, and CEO William Amelio has said he will resign.

16 years ago

MySQL Founder Leaves Sun

MySQL founder Monty Widenius has left Sun after a very public flap over bugs in MySQL 5.1 and months of…

16 years ago

W3C Calls for Web 2.0 Data Sharing

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)  has called for social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter to share profiles and…

16 years ago

Google Latitude Let Users Track Colleagues on Maps

A Google application called Latitude lets users track friends, family and colleagues via Google Maps on a PC or mobile…

16 years ago

EMC and Microsoft Renew Alliance Despite Virtualization Conflict

Microsoft and data storage giant EMC are renewing their product partnership, despite growing competition in the fast-growing area of virtualization.

16 years ago

Intel Plans Eight-Core Nehalem and Smarter SOCs

Intel will give details of a 2.3 billion transistor, eight core processor, and smarter system-on-chip (SOC) modules that include wireless…

16 years ago

New VMware Open-Source Client Heralds New Devices

VMware View Open Client, released 3rd February, will most likely boost the number of thin-client devices from Wyse, HP and…

16 years ago

SAP’s CIO Customers Won’t Do Business on iPhone

The Apple iPhone is not a business tool, according to CIOs speaking at a SAP software launch. Despite burgeoning iPhone…

16 years ago

Citrix: the Virtual Route to Sustainable IT

Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers.…

16 years ago

Skype 4.0 for Windows Updates VOIP

The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth…

16 years ago

Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo

Many people send e-mail messages while exhausted, angry or inebriated that they later regret. As part of Google's quest to…

16 years ago

Box.net Becomes Social Content Management Service

Box.net, which began life as a file management and file-sharing platform in a cloud computing environment, is becoming a more…

16 years ago

New Citrix XenDesktop Release Enhances Desktop Virtualization, User Experience

The new release of Citrix's XenDesktop product aims to make desktop virtualization cheaper and friendlier for office workers, by increasing…

16 years ago

Microsoft to Blitz Market with Six Editions of Windows 7

It's official: Microsoft will release at least six versions of Windows 7, following the same marketing approach it took with…

16 years ago

Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux

Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free…

16 years ago

Google Privacy Exec Facing Criminal Charges

Italian officials charge Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer with criminal charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over…

16 years ago

Google Earth Beta 5 Lets Users Explore Ocean Floor

Google's latest update to Google Earth includes several new features to view, including the three-dimensional renderings of the ocean floor,…

16 years ago

Mac Enters Enterprise by Back Door

Business Mac deployments hit a 5 percent adoption ceiling last year, but they're bouncing down, according to a new report…

16 years ago

IBM Building Next Generation of BlueGene Supercomputers

IBM and the U. S Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have signed a new contract to build the…

16 years ago

Next Windows 7 Milestone: Release Candidate

How ready is Windows 7? Ready enough so there will be no Beta 2. Microsoft plans to go directly from…

16 years ago

Google Apps Draws Enterprise Users

Despite summer outages for Google Gmail and Google Apps that left some analysts questioning whether Web-based applications were right for…

16 years ago

New ‘Hacktivism’ Highlights Growing Problem

We all saw what the concentrated efforts of a group of politically minded hackers could accomplish in 2007 when Russian…

16 years ago