Monthly Archives: August 2009
N900 Is Nokia’s First Linux Smartphone
Nokia has introduced a new top-tier contender in the smartphone market-the N900-which uses an open-source operating system.The Nokia N900 is a robust phone that...
Nvidia, TopCoder Team for Parallel Programming Contest
Nvidia has joined forces with TopCoder, a competitive software development community, to sponsor a coding contest for developers interested in parallel programming on the...
LABS GALLERY: Sun Fire x4170 Packs Plenty of Compute Power in 1U Server
LABS GALLERY: Sun Fire x4170 Packs Plenty of Compute Power in 1U Server
by Cameron Sturdevant
Sun Fire x4170
The server has room for eight 2.5-inch SAS,...
HP, Dell Join Microsoft’s Appeal of Word Patent Case
Microsoft has two new legal allies, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, who both intend to file amicus briefs in a patent-infringement case that could see copies...
Wyse iPhone App Lets Users Connect to Desktop via iPhone, iPod
Wyse Technology wants to help businesspeople who are on the go to tap into their desktop environments from their mobile Apple devices.Wyse Aug. 27...
Microsoft Slashes Price of Xbox 360 Elite
Microsoft plans to slash the price of its Xbox 360 Elite gaming system from $399 to $299 on Aug. 28, as part of a...
Microsoft Debuts Project Madison CTP for Data Warehouses
Microsoft has made the community technology preview of "Project Madison", the culmination of the company's DATAllegro acquisition last year.Madison is Microsoft's answer to calls...
Google Entering the Loan Quote Market, Claims LendingTree Lawsuit
Google will enter the market for offering mortgage loan quotes, according to a lawsuit filed by LendingTree in the District Court for the Western...
Google: Malware Sites on the Upswing
New statistics released by search giant Google indicate that it is crawling an ever-growing number of URLs that somehow seek to infect end users'...
Sirius XM Debuts SkyDock to Link to iPhone, iPod Touch
Satellite radio service company Sirius XM Radio debuted a device that turns Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch digital music player into a receiver for...