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New SGI Blade Taps Xilinx Technology

Silicon Graphics is rolling out a blade server designed to speed up compute-intensive applications in the high-performance computing space.The RASC RC100 blade takes advantage...

Sun Ultra 40 Is a Powerhouse

Sun Microsystems Ultra 40 workstation offers a solid triad of performance, graphics capability and memory capacity, making the Opteron-based workstation ideal for performance-intensive applications,...

GPL: Riskier Under Sarbox?

Users of the gnu general Public License have no need to worry about Sarbanes-Oxley.Thats the upshot of a white paper published by the Software...

How Intel Keeps Its Enterprise Customers Coming Back for More

One thing Intel was able to demonstrate at the conference the week of March 6 was a tour de force of staying power. Not only...

Origami Ultra Mobile Prototypes Released

Last week, Origami Ultra Mobile prototypes released; Microsoft acknowledges new "Live" Web service applications; 5,000th patent celebrated. This week, new Software Assurance offerings; small...

IBM Boosts Supercomputer Data Speed by 600%

IBM officials say theyve found a method for speeding up the way large computer networks retrieve and share information by as much as 600...

Intel Scales Up the Stakes with Multicore Chip Strategy

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel is assembling the building blocks for a radically different chip architecture that could arrive by the end of the decade. Although the chip...

Origamis Future: Doorstop

Can you really be sick of a product that technically hasnt shipped yet? Sure you can—its name is Origami. The interest this thing is generating...

Ultramobile PC: Wheres Its Niche?

One day after the news leaked out of San Francisco about Microsofts ultramobile PC project, "Origami" was the main focus of discussion at the...

Google Buys a Web Writer

Search giant Google says it has purchased the company that makes Writely, a Web-based word processing feature. Writely is, simply put, a word processor embedded...