Monthly Archives: June 2008
Hakia Serves Semantic Search to Businesses
While stories are regularly written about how far away the glorious notion of the Semantic Web is, semantic search, which among other things discerns...
WiMax Gear Clears Standards
From dongles to chips to base stations and receivers, the WiMAX Forum June 18 approved 10 products for the 2.5GHz profile. These products are...
Cisco reports SNMP authentication flaws
Networking giant Cisco has issued a security advisory warning users of two authentication vulnerabilities in version 3 of SNMP, the widely-adopted Internet protocol element...
Flashtops Starting to Become a Force
NEW YORK -- Solid-state flash-based laptops are starting to move from market shelves in 2008, pretty much on the schedule The Station discussed almost...
Can Google Capitalize on Facebook’s Fade?
An interesting thought occurred to me after, and regrettably not during, a conversation I had with IDC analyst Karsten Weide two days ago.I was...
Steep Penalty for Alleged H-1B Scammer
Bail of $800,000 was set for an Edison, N.J., zoning board member arrested June 10 and charged with conducting an immigration racket between January...
No Surprise: IBM’s Roadrunner Takes Top Supercomputer Honors
The era of the petaflop supercomputer is now officially here.IBM's $100 million Roadrunner supercomputer, which is being installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's...
Fastest-ever Windows HPC Cluster
Microsoft fastest-yet homegrown supercomputer, running the U.S. company's new Windows HPC Server 2008, debuted in the top 25 of the world's top 500 fastest...
First Impressions of Firefox 3
Firefox 3 is finally here. I've been testing the betas and release candidates off and on and there's no doubt it's an improvement on...
Microsoft Solves Patch Problem
Microsoft has fixed a patch update problem that was preventing some users from deploying the latest round of patches. According to Microsoft, a bug...