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The IBM Mainframe: 50 Years of Big Iron Innovation

The IBM Mainframe: 50 Years of Big Iron Innovation IBM 701 (1952) Initially built for the U.S. Department of Defense. The first production machine shipped from...

Sun Drives ‘Amber Road’ to Record Sales

Sun Microsystems had some welcome good news to report May 7. After six months in general release, the company's first home-designed and developed storage...

Microsoft to Buy Game Developer BigPark

Microsoft announced plans May 7 to acquire BigPark, an interactive online gaming company the software giant has worked closely with on the development of...

Google Co-Founder Brin Talks Future of Cloud Computing

Google co-founder Sergey Brin posted his 2008 founder's letter on the official Google blog on May 7, detailing the company's beginnings and offering a...

Researchers Release Bootkit Code Targeting Windows 7

Security researchers have made available for download the source code for a "bootkit" that allows hackers to take control of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating...

NASA Atlantis Shuttle Takes Final Ride to Hubble Telescope

NASA Atlantis Shuttle Takes Final Ride to Hubble Telescope by Roy Mark The Mission: Keep Hubble Operational Over the course of five spacewalks, astronauts will install two...

Verizon, Novatel Turn Broadband into Wi-Fi

Verizon Wireless has teamed with Novatel Wireless to offer the MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, which will be available May 17.With the MiFi, Verizon...

GE to Invest $6B in Health Care Initiatives

General Electric announced May 7 it will invest $3 billion over the next six years in health care innovation. The company also said it...

Dell, Nvidia Partner on Personal Supercomputers

Just days after launching a preconfigured graphics-based supercomputing cluster, Nvidia announced that it is partnering with Dell to offer workstations powered by Nvidia's Tesla...

Missile Defense Secrets Sold on eBay

Another day, another cyber-security concern. In today's episode, a used computer bought on eBay contained highly sensitive details of a key U.S. missile system...