Monthly Archives: August 2009
New Parallels Software Helps PC Users Become Mac Users
Is Apple's new fast and light Snow Leopard looking pretty good? Did Justin Long have you at "Hello, I'm a Mac"? If so, software...
NEC, Stratus Put Intel -Nehalem’ Chips into Fault-Tolerant Servers
NEC and Stratus Technologies each are adding Intel's Xeon 5500 Series "Nehalem EP" processors to their lines of fault-tolerant servers.Officials with both NEC and...
13 Common Data Storage Failures and How Likely the Files Can Be Recovered
13 Common Data Storage Failures and How Likely the Files Can Be Recovered
by Chris Preimesberger
Human error (file deletion, formatting a hard drive etc., The...
Yahoo to Buy Arab Portal Maktoob.com to Reach the Middle East
Yahoo moved to make its biggest geographic expansion in years Aug. 25 when it agreed to buy leading Arabic Web community Maktoob.com for an...
Microsoft, Yahoo Still Search Competitors, According to Yahoo
Despite a 10-year agreement that has Microsoft's Bing powering search on Yahoo's sites, Yahoo evidently still sees its online partner as a competitor. In...
Weather Delays Discovery Launch
NASA postponed the Aug. 25 launch of the space shuttle Discovery after a last-minute storm hit the Cape Canaveral area. The space agency rescheduled...
Latest AES Encryption Attack Not the End of the World
A group of researchers uncovered new attacks on AES-256 encryption not too long ago. But while the research is definitely an improvement over the...
Embarcadero Ships RAD Studio 2010
Embarcadero Technologies has released Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 which includes new versions of former Borland and CodeGear products such as Delphi, and C++Builder as...
Upon Return to Apple, Jobs Focuses on Tablet Device
While reports of an impending announcement of a tabletlike device from Apple continue to consume the Internet, new information suggests since CEO Steve Jobs'...
IBM Launches Self-Encrypting Array for Midrange Market
Sometimes it appears as though the large storage manufacturers quietly plan behind the scenes to launch new products at the same time.On Aug. 25,...