An Nvidia representative today confirmed the view that Intel is delaying release of the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 specification to chipmakers.
At the International Supercomputing Conference being held this week in Germany, Microsoft announced that it will roll out the first release candidate (RC1) of its Windows HPC Server 2008 for high-performance computing in the last week of June.
Microsoft yesterday kicked off the NXTcomm08 event by showcasing its IPTV telco and service provider offerings.
Outsourcing "megadeals" appear to be on the wane. According to market watcher Gartner Inc., the number of reported megadeals -- contracts of $1 billion or more awarded to a single vendor -- actually declined last year. Does this mean that outsourcing itself is on the way out?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/17/2008
For over a year now, IBM Corp. has made "greening" a centerpiece of its marketing efforts, kicking off a $1 billion green IT investment last spring called "Project Big Green," touting mainframe-centric greening initiatives and, just recently, trumpeting a new "green" approach to software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/17/2008
Computer Economics released a new report characterizing the adoption rate of Windows Vista by businesses as "slow."
The High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N), a Swedish consortium of universities and research centers based out of Umea University, is installing a supercomputer that combines IBM Cell Broadband Engines and Power processors with quad-core Intel Xeon processors running both Windows and Linux in a dual-boot configuration.
Microsoft has joined the Open Source Census as a sponsor, according to an announcement issued by OpenLogic, which founded the group.
Now, a list of "m" through "z" of the Vista command-line tools.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/16/2008
Among other things, our study points to the speed with which vulnerabilities are exploited and the speed with which admins patch systems.
Microsoft works to correct issue that kept some administrators using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from downloading the latest security updates.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/16/2008
Microsoft and 15 partner companies, including Unisys and EDS, announced a new working alliance intent on forging technology architecture for the heath and human services (HHS) market.
Novell announced last Wednesday that it has joined Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program.
- By Chris Riedel
- 06/16/2008
IT pros wanting to try out the latest Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology can now get the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version via Windows Update.
Verizon Business reports that more than half of the data breaches on enterprise systems go undetected and are caused by general negligence and lax security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/13/2008
Rumors that Intel is not releasing Universal Serial Bus 3.0 specification to its technology partners in a timely manner have prompted a rebuttal.
Just hours after announcing that talks with Microsoft had ended without a deal, Yahoo announced an advertising partnership with Google.
Yahoo today said its talks with Microsoft focusing on acquiring all or part of the company are officially over -- a position that Microsoft appears to be at least partially disputing.
Use PowerShell to find the password age of a local admin account.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/11/2008
The rise in the amount of Spam being eaten by families who have fallen on hard times is commensurate with the rise in e-mail spam, Symantec revealed this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2008