Monthly Archives: April 2009
AMD Rolls Out Low-Power Opteron EE Chip
Advanced Micro Devices, which for years has made energy efficiency and performance per watt cornerstones of its processor development, is lowering the power consumption...
Google Health Losing Luster
While Google Health suffered a public relations snafu through no fault of its own last week, Microsoft scored a major public relations coup today,...
Unisys Improves Virtualization Capabilities in Its Servers
Unisys is ramping up the virtualization capabilities of its enterprise x86 servers by upgrading to Intel's Nehalem EP processors and VMware's latest version of...
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 GPU Launches in May for Apple Mac
Nvidia says that its Quadro FX 4800 professional graphics card for Apple Mac Pro users is coming in May.Nvidia first introduced its new Quadro...
Samsung Spinpoint M7 Hard Disk Drive Offers Rugged Storage
Samsung has introduced a new hard disk drive it's calling "rugged."The Spinpoint M7 500GB hard drive measures 2.5 inches and features 250GB of data...
CentOS 5.3 Has Keen Focus on Virtualization
CentOS, the popular community-supported clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, reached Version 5.3 in March, some three months after its parent distribution, RHEL 5.3,...
Hitting Botnets Where It Hurts at RSA Conference
Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, is pushing for security researchers to adopt a concerted, three-pronged effort to take down the Web's...
Stephen Hawking Hospitalized, Expected to Make Full Recovery
Stephen Hawking was admitted to a Cambridge hospital April 20 in "very ill" condition related to a chest infection. According to a statement issued...
Software Pirates Getting Bolder Too, Says Microsoft Study
Software pirates are getting bolder and more sophisticated according to a new paper from Microsoft on the subject.The main study discussed in the paper...
Hackers Swipe Terabytes of Sensitive Pentagon Data
With President Obama's review of U.S. cyber-security due this week, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that unknown hackers have infiltrated the Pentagon's most...