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Yahoo released YQL Execute yesterday as part of its efforts to attract developers to its platform. The release gives developers increased control over how data is pulled into YQL and then presented t... More >
IBM has infused its DeveloperWorks portal with social networking capabilities. The newly dubbed My DeveloperWorks borrows more from LinkedIn than it does MySpace or Facebook, says internetnews.com ... More >
MSDN and TechNet subscribers now have access to Microsoft's Windows 7 Release Candidate. The general public will be given access to the software on May 5 via the Microsoft Download Center, reports T... More >
The researchers behind the open source Eucalyptus cloud computing platform have raised $5.5 million in Series A funding and have launched Eucalyptus Systems Inc., a new company with the intention of ... More >
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is recruiting designers to design chips for cell phones and music players. Such a move could prevent details of the company's plans leaking t... More >
Verizon Business announced that it will now extend its suite of managed services to PCs and servers, reports Computerworld . Verizon's Remote Backup and Restore service utilizes de-duplication, whic... More >
SpringSource has released an enterprise version of servlet container Apache Tomcat, reports InformationWeek . The lightweight application server is often used in Web applications. The SpringS... More >
According to research from Strategy Analytics, netbooks are reaching new audiences of consumers. Sales for the portable devices have done well amid the global economy. The need for new PCs has not wa... More >
At a press event in Taipei, NVIDIA announced that it expects to have 40 of its Intel Atom ION-based platforms on the market by the end of the year, reports Engadget . The systems are expected to be ... More >
Microsoft acquired Tellme for $800 million two years ago and has spent the past couple of years developing features that target automated customer service call centers. According to Informati... More >
Microsoft released the second service pack for its Office 2007 suite today. According to InformationWeek , the release adds stability, performance and security. SP2 adds support for native Op... More >
Hitachi Data Systems announced three new management software products. Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer, Hitachi Virtual Server Reporter and Hitachi Storage Command Portal enable organizations to monit... More >
Mozilla released the fourth beta of Firefox 3.5 yesterday. Firefox 3.5 beta 4 is expected to be the last beta, reports Webmonkey . The latest release brings about increased stability, bug fixes and ... More >
Cablevision announced that it will offer its customers high-speed Internet service with downlink speeds of 101 megabits per second. The new Optimum Online Ultra service uses DOCSIS 3.0 technology to ... More >
HP has launched a line of inexpensive business notebooks that target small and medium-sized businesses. The ProBook s-series will replace the HP Compaq line, says TG Daily . In addition to Wi... More >
Apple has released a second beta for its Mac OS X 10.6, which also goes by the name Snow Leopard. Build 10A335, which was released to Apple's developer community, comes just three weeks after the pre... More >
Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies is expected to release the first Android-based netbook in June. The Alpha 680 will run a low-cost ARM processor and feature a 7-inch LCD with a resolution ... More >
General Electric has developed a new technique that will allow 500GB of data to be stored on a standard DVD-sized disc. GE's micro-holographic storage technology allows for 100 DVDs worth of data to ... More >
Time Warner customers in parts of New England and New York state were without Internet access and landline connections on Sunday. According to the company, an equipment malfunction in a Syracuse hub ... More >
Microsoft plans to include a Windows XP mode to its Windows 7 operating system. The virtualization tool is designed to aid businesses in their migration from Windows XP to Windows 7. According to Th... More >
Bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to technology. EagleTec subscribes to that notion with its new USB flash drive. According to SlipperyBrick , the EagleTec Nano drive is about th... More >
Last year, the city of Wilson, NC launched Greenlight , a $28 million municipal broadband network that offers speeds up to 100Mbps. Carriers Embarq and Time Warner have since lobbied state officials... More >
Everything is bigger in Texas, and the new single-level cell (SLC) solid-state drive (SSD) from Texas Memory Systems is no exception. The Houston-based storage company has launched what it calls the ... More >
AMD bolstered its Opteron line of server processors. The company has added 12 quad-core Opteron chips, which it claims reduce power consumption while improving performance, reports Comptuerworld . &... More >
Mac Pro users will now be able to get their hands on Nvidia's latest graphics card. The company announced the Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 for Apple Mac Pro systems, reports Techtree . The card feat... More >
Samsung has announced a new line of rugged hard drives for the road-weary business person. Spinpoint M7, the new hard drive series, will be sold in capacities of 250 gigabytes, 320 gigabytes, 400 gig... More >
Researchers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute believe RRAM (Resistive-RAM) may have what it takes to replace both DRAM and NAND flash memory. The group of researchers are of the op... More >
Google has released two new experimental products through Google Labs that the company hopes will alter the way users search for pictures and their news. One of the projects, Similar Images, a... More >
AT&T is in the process of doubling its 3G HSPA network capacity to 7.2 megabits per second from 3.6 megabits per second. The company has also begun the task of selecting vendors for its Long Term... More >
HP is not taking Cisco's foray into the data center lying down. Today, the company is introducing the BladeSystem Matrix and its Matrix Orchestration Environment (MOE). According to HP, its BladeSyst... More >
Adobe is bringing its Flash technology to your television sets. The company plans to bring the latest version of its multimedia platform to Internet connected TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and ... More >
The Ubuntu development at Canonical has unleashed the release candidate of Jaunty Jackalope, the codename for Ubuntu 9.04. According to developers, the RC is suitable to be tested by any user and spo... More >
Verizon released preliminary specs of its forthcoming 4G LTE network. One notable requirement of the network is IPv6. According to PC Magazine , Verizon's focus on the launch of the network will be ... More >
Dell has announced a partnership with China Mobile to bundle its Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with China Mobile's 3G mobile service, reports SlashGear . China Mobile customers can get the In... More >
Cisco provided further details of its Unified Computing System , which combines networking and storage components with virtualization to create a single combined system. The company has relea... More >
Time Warner has halted plans to expand its controversial tiered pricing plan for broadband services. The diversion in course is largely due to consumer backlash and threat of legislation from Roc... More >
To avoid a situation similar to what occured off the coast of Egypt last December, foreign navies have agreed to protect a ship and its crew that is installing undersea high-speed Internet cable of... More >
An IBM alliance including Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics and others are jointly developing next-generation 28nm chip technology based on high-k metal gates. According to CNET News , ... More >
Acer is targeting the enterprise desktop market with design updates to its lineup of Veriton desktop PCs. The new desktops are designed with business users in mind, says Digital Trends . The new Ver... More >
CNET News reports that Microsoft has merged its product search engine with its Live Search Cashback service. The company made the announcement in a blog post yesterday. The unification will ease p... More >
A report from management consultancy McKinsey & Company says cloud computing is too costly for large companies when compared to alternatives. The study found that a large organization would p... More >
Dell has tapped Samsung to assist in offering its customers encrypted solid-state drives. In the coming months, Dell users will have the option of selecting from a 64GB, 128GB of 256GB SSD from Samsu... More >
Amid eBay's plans to spin it off into an IPO , Skype is getting serious about business. The company claims 35 percent of its customers use the service for work, leading the company to gear its produ... More >
Select laptop and desktop PC makers are sampling Intel's Westmere PC chips. Westmere is "a shrink" of Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture and could be available in PCs by early next year, reports Info... More >
Kickfire is unveiling an analytic appliance that targets the MySQL segment at the lower end of the data warehousing market. The Santa Clara, Calif-based startup claims its appliance delivers data wa... More >
According to Microsoft Watch , Microsoft will release Office 2007 Service Pack 2 on April 28. Microsoft initially announced SP2 last October. The company made the announcement on its Microsoft Upda... More >
EMC launched its new Symmetrix storage array today. The V-Max array, with its Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, offers massive scalability, delivers tens of millions of I/O operations per second... More >
The 83 percent of IT pros planning to wait to adopt Windows 7 should probably take notes. Today, Microsoft is transitioning its support of Windows XP from Mainstream Support to Extended Supp... More >
Google has both refeshed and open sourced its Google Update software. Google Update, now being referred to as Omaha, is always on and constantly making sure Google applications are performing at thei... More >
Sun Microsystems is rolling out two blades, four racks and a tower workstation based on Intel's quad-core Nehalem EP Xeon 5500 processors today, reports The Register . Part of its Open Network Syste... More >
Despite early plaudits, it appears organizations will take a wait-and-see approach with Microsoft's Windows 7, reports Daily Tech . According to a survey of 1,100 IT professionals by Dimensio... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that medical leave hasn't kept Steve Jobs from the major goings on at Apple. According to the article, Jobs has continued to monitor the products and plans of the com... More >
The Green Grid has launched a new tool that makes it easier for an organization to establish how much energy and money it can save by using outside air and water to cool data centers. The tool will ... More >
SandForce introduced a new processor family it claims is capable of supporting multi-level cell flash chips and handling sequential speeds of 250MB/sec. The Saratoga, Calif.-based company has ... More >
Asus will equip its latest laptops with a little more security punch. The Asus P30 and P80 laptops will be fortified with Intel's Anti-Theft Technology. The anti-theft system will allow users to send... More >
Yesterday, Windows Live applications including Hotmail, Messenger and Marketplace were not operational when users signed on. Some customers where even directed to sign up for a new e-mail, says MSNB... More >
Time Warner, which recently announced plans to extend its tiered Internet service to new markets, said through a blog post from its COO that is developing a super-tier that will allow for 100 GB ... More >
Recent Internet and telephone outages in Silicon Valley are being attributed to the work of vandals, says Wired . According to investigators, four AT&T fiber optic cables were cut yesterday in S... More >
Santa isn't the only one who sees you when you're sleeping anymore. The minds at Gmail Labs have added Sender Time Zones to its litany of add-ons for the Web-based e-mail service. The feature ... More >
HP released the latest version of its Business Service Automation software Wednesday. According to the company, the suite is designed to enable organizations to: Create a common view of the business ... More >
The country's third-largest cable provider is looksing to launch its own wireless network . After a joint venture to offer cell phone service between Comcast, Time Warner and itself went bad, Cox Co... More >
At its Campfire One developers event in Mountain View, Calif., Google announced a number of improvements to its App Engine. The headliner among the enhancements is that App Engine now can run Java co... More >
Intel unveiled a new microprocessor code-named Jasper Forest. The new chips will target storage devices and embedded applications, says this TechWhack piece. The chips will use Nehalem-EP ar... More >
Upgrading to Windows 7 could be a tricky proposition. Microsoft has asked the beta testers of its forthcoming Windows 7 release candidate to return to their old operating system before upgrading to t... More >
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will begin working on a national broadband plan today. The general public will be permitted to submit their comments over the next 60 days with a further 30... More >
The Australian government is taking it upon itself to build a nationwide fiber optic and wireless broadband network, reports Wired . The government plans to spend US$31 billion and form a new govern... More >
Apple has updated its Xserve 1U rackmount server. Its new 1U blade servers are equipped with Intel's 5500 Xeon line of processors. Apple claims the revamped servers provide improved performance and a... More >
At the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, cloud storage startup Zetta used the event to launch its first offering. According to Byte and Switch , Zetta Enterprise Cloud Storage... More >
Despite positive early reviews, Microsoft's actions aren't exactly exuding confidence in Windows 7, says The Business Insider . According to the article, Microsoft will offer Windows XP as a downgra... More >
Technical problems with servers took down Comcast's SmartZone e-mail system for several hours on Saturday. The company communicated and kept its customers in the loop via its blog and Twitter acco... More >
Shortly after news of their sponsoring free Wi-Fi for a trial period in gates and terminals at Sea-Tac Airport broke, Alaska Airlines said that a company representative misspoke at a panel discussio... More >
Beginning April 14, Microsoft will no longer offer mainstream support for Office 2003. The company will shift the suite to extended support, which typically means it will be limited to companies than... More >
Dell has revamped its line of Vostro laptops. The company is targeting small to medium-size businesses with its 13-inch Vostro1320, 15-inch Vostro1520 and 17-inch Vostro 1720 laptops, reports Cooles... More >
Free Wi-Fi will be available at Sea-Tac Airport's gates and terminals courtesy of sponsorship from Alaska Airlines. The service, which is also available at Oakland Airport, will run through a portion... More >
Nova Media announced a 3G USB modem for Mac users. The iCON 225 provides HSDPA connections of up to 7.2 Mbps for downloads and 2Mbps for uploads, reports SlashGear . In addition, it also works via E... More >
At the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit, Google server designer Ben Jai gave the audience a sneak peek under the hood of one of the company's data centers and custom Web servers. According to Gi... More >
In an effort to persuade developers to create applications for its wireless service, Clearwire is building a wireless network in Silicon Valley this summer. The WiMax network will cover 20 square mil... More >
Time Warner is expanding its tiered Internet service after a successful trial in Beaumont, Texas . The test replaced fixed-price, unlimited download packages with tiered levels of service based on h... More >
Microsoft pushed VoIP and unified communications in place of traditional desktop phones at its VoiceCon keynote in Orlando. The company is touting its vision for VoIP and UC built on its Office Commu... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that AT&T will being selling netbooks at its stores in Atlanta and Philadelphia. AT&T's lineup of netbooks will include the Acer Aspire One, Dell Inspiron Min... More >
Online auctioneer eBay launched a beta version of eBay Bucks, a rebate program that allows its auctionees to earn rewards on certain items. According to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journa... More >
HP announced HP Cloud Assure, a software-as-a-service bundle designed to aide businesses in their adoption of cloud-based services. According to eChannelLine , the suite is made up of softwar... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal, HP is considering Google's Android for use on its netbooks. Such a move could potentially give Microsoft Windows some serious competition, says Busines... More >
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