Monthly Archives: May 2009
Intel Co-founder Moore Looks Back on a Legendary IT Career
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Intel co-founder and Chairman Emeritus Gordon E. Moore was a 30-year-old executive at Fairchild Camera & Instrument back in January 1959 when...
Mozilla Prism Beta Easily Converts Websites and Web Apps into Desktop Apps
Mozilla Prism Beta Easily Converts Websites and Web Apps into Desktop Apps
by Jim Rapoza
Easy Conversion
With the Prism Firefox extension, turning a Website into a...
Economy Delaying IT Projects, Not Canceling: Gartner
Gartner is reporting that the weakened global economy has caused more computing projects to be delayed than canceled, based on interviews conducted from late...
NEC Quits Supercomputer Project
Struggling computing giant NEC is dropping out of a program backed by the Japanese government to build the fastest supercomputer in the world.NEC's announcement...
Blade Network Readies Converged Ethernet Switch
Blade Network Technologies is preparing to roll out a new Ethernet switch that can be used for upcoming Fibre Channel over Ethernet networking technologies,...
MSI X-Slim Notebook Series Grows by Two
Taiwan-based computer maker MSI announced it will be adding two new laptops to its X-Slim series in the second quarter of 2009, a 14-inch...
Google Search Researches Users’ Health
Google is performing a short-term experiment involving its users' health-related searches.The company, claiming it wants to better refine its health-search-related processes by "understanding how...
Mozilla Prism Makes Web Apps Behave Like Desktop Apps
Business users can now access many of the applications they need from the Web, with no need to install them on an operating system.But...
Acer Pulls Back on PC Builds
Acer may have passed Dell in netbook shipments in Q1, but supply chain checks indicate the PC maker is pulling back on manufacturing orders...
Vembu to Partner with Caringo, ParaScale for Cloud Storage
Online backup software provider Vembu has unveiled a number of new partnerships with leading cloud storage providers, allowing solution providers incredible flexibility to offer...