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Notebook shipments are expected to double in 2009 at an annual growth rate of 128 percent, according to Taiwan-based Market Intelligence Centre. Industry insiders believe laptops will soon be ... More >
Sun Microsystems is offering a preview version of JavaFX , its development platform for rich Internet applications, as it enters the framework wars with Adobe and Microsoft, reports The Inquirer . ... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that Japan's Hitachi Ltd. and Fujitsu Ltd. made it out of the red in the fiscal first quarter. After cost-cutting in its once-beleaguered hard-disk drive b... More >
The New South Wales Department of Education says it has yanked what it calls one of the world's largest e-mail accounts from Microsoft and handed it to Google . The Sydney Morning Herald rep... More >
In the rush to release patches for the Domain Name System flaw , security experts chose to get the patches out ASAP and deal with some known problems afterward. Those problems slow servers r... More >
HP, Intel and Yahoo are lending a hand to government and academia efforts to launch a global, multi-data center test bed for cloud computing research, reports InformationWeek . Founding memb... More >
Stepping up efforts to quell bashing of Vista , one Microsoft exec calls Forrester reports on the operating system "schizophrenic," reports CRN . Chris Flores, a director with the Windows C... More >
Storage provider Fabrik believes it may have produced the greenest external drive to date with its SimpleTech [re]Drive. The low-power drive with 500GB of space comes with an Energy Star power... More >
IBM firmly placed its predominant stamp on the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers. According to ITWire , IBM's high-performance computing technology accounts for the ... More >
The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop is cheap ... if you can afford 100 of them. According to InfoWorld , the laptop sells for $130, but has to be bought in bulk through the online store of Carapelli on Al... More >
Bloomberg reports that Verizon is boasting a 12 percent increase in second quarter profits due to subscriptions for services like downloads and Web surfing. The news is surprising consideri... More >
A former Google employee and her husband have unveiled a new search engine to rival that of her ex-employer. Anna Patterson and Tom Costello launched Cuil , which claims to have 120 billion Web pag... More >
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to rule on Aug. 1 that Comcast Corp. was wrong to block access to file-sharing traffic, reports News.com . The anticipated FCC ruling, which wo... More >
Mozilla is releasing a patch that addresses nine vulnerabilities in Thunderbird , according to InfoWorld . This is the first time holes have been plugged in the e-mail software since May . ... More >
So the mayor got the keys to the city -- computer system, that is -- but the network administrator accused of locking down the system apparently won't get out of jail anytime soon, reports The San... More >
The e-paper segment got a major boost this week with Esquire's announcement that it would use e-paper for the covers of 100,000 of its October issues . Sony's latest version of its Reader dig... More >
Much has been written about greening the data center , but very little proof has been presented to support all of its promises. That could be changing with a recent report from Silicon Valley... More >
Taking a completely opposite stance from several groups in the music industry, the Recording Academy has suggested that the FCC use the Lollapalooza music festival to test white-spaces devices in t... More >
According to Australian IT , 82 customers of software company 2Clix have banded together, claiming its buggy accounting software is holding their data hostage . They claim the software they ... More >
Facebook is beginning a phased rollout of its rollout of a new site , reports PC Magazine. Profiles will feature tabs for a person's wall, personal information, photos and applications, rathe... More >
VentureBeat calls CherryPal "a true cloud computer" since it stores almost all if its applications and data online. Hoping to appeal to students and less computer-savvy people, CherryPal may just ... More >
PolyFuel has been making the rounds in Sillicon Valley this week. The company has been showing off its prototype fuel cell-powered laptop, reports MATTER . PolyFuel used a Lenovo T40 ThinkPa... More >
Blade Network Technologies has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative . The initiative , started last year by Google and Intel, seeks to reduce computer power consumption by 50 percent by 2... More >
Converge , a U.S. company that does much of its work with chip spot markets, is suggesting that desktop PCs might be making a comeback , based on a shortage of microprocessors for desktops on the m... More >
Japanese scientists have developed flash memory chips that could last hundreds of years , rather than a decade, reports vnunet.com . The chips wear out from repeated rewriting of application... More >
Zoho will provide a custom edition of its Zoho Business collaboration and productivity applications to 300,000 business customers of Swisscom , reports InfoWorld. The software will be avail... More >
Adobe is sharing some info on what can be expected in the next version of its Flex platform, "Gumbo," due out in the second half of 2009. InfoWorld reports that the Gumbo open source SDK wi... More >
If you're working on a disaster-recovery plan, you might take a note from a massive fire in downtown Vancouver, B.C. CBCNews.ca reports that power isn't expected to be restored to the area un... More >
Security concerns are causing nearly three quarters of U.K. businesses to ban the use of public instant messaging systems , according to a report by IM supplier ProcessOne. Computerworld rep... More >
Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California-San Diego have developed a free service to track missing laptops , reports PCWorld.com . Adeona , named after the... More >
Deloitte has selected Nortel to provide it with telepresence and open standards-based videoconferencing in 130 of its worldwide locations. According to BusinessGreen , the consultancy firm ... More >
Copies of Windows XP remain a hot item on Amazon.com , with the full version of XP Home ranked No. 15 and the full version of XP Pro ranked No. 21 on its list of most popular software, reports News... More >
IBM's 3D chipstacks present a world of promise in enhancing chip performance. But the 3D chipstacks also produce heat at about one kilowatt per cubic centimeter, enough to melt an uncooled chip in a ... More >
Microsoft's had it with all the trashing of Vista , reports ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley. She quotes Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows consumer products, as saying: "We know our stor... More >
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been working towards creating server specifications for its Energy Star ratings program for over two years. Greener Computing reports that the EPA... More >
Is Internet downtime more frequent these days, or does it just seem that way? The New York Times profiles a new service, downforeveryoneorjustme.com , that allows users to determine whether ... More >
Rising oil and electricity costs have consumers seeking to gain an edge wherever possible. According to AXXA News , electronics is one area where people are trying to lessen the impact of cli... More >
Companies don't have to start from the ground up to make their data centers more environmentally friendly. New research from Accenture reveals that there is only a 5 percent difference in infrast... More >
Krugle's new search appliance for enterprise software development projects can handle more than 10 billion lines of source code, report InfoWorld . Version 2.3 of Krugle Enterprise has a num... More >
A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that attitude, more than availability , may be the reason more Americans have not jumped onto the broadband bandwagon. Th... More >
In the market for a new mini-notebook? Keep an eye out for upcoming offerings from Everex Systems. InfoWorld reports that the company will introduce new 8.9-inch mini-laptops by the end of August, ... More >
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