The Distributed Management Task Force announced it had formed a group to tackle management and interoperability issues that will arise …
HP still getting heat on Nvidia graphics chips
Months after the problem first surfaced, owners of Hewlett-Packard Co. laptops continue to complain about defective Nvidia graphics cards that …
How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi
Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. …
AMD launches energy-efficient Shanghai Opteron EE
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker AMD Inc. on Wednesday — the sixth anniversary of the birth of its Opteron processor — …
Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook
Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter …
Is mobile computing the Achilles’ heel in your organization?
Mobile computing, from laptops to the myriad handheld devices such as smartphones, BlackBerries, iPhones, USB tokens and PDAs, can certainly …
Android to go beyond phones to a range of personal devices
Android, the Linux-based operating system used in the G1 smartphone and others to come, is destined to be part of …
Juniper’s Q1 revenue falls, earnings plummet
Juniper Networks blamed a drop-off in new network build-outs for a first quarter plunge in revenue and earnings, though said …
VMware looks to bring data centers under the cloud
VMware Inc. last week launched the long-awaited upgrade of its core virtualization software, which it calls a cloud operating system. …
Toshiba to ship higher capacity flash chips from July
Toshiba plans to begin shipping from the middle of this year flash memory chips that are more tightly packed than …
Microsoft cuts UAC prompts in Windows 7
User Account Control, a Windows Vista security feature that has long been considered intrusive, will appear about one-third less often …
Seven burning security questions
There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns …
AMD stimulated, will be launching Opteron well ahead of schedule
The U.S. government is beginning to spend billions of dollars quickly to stimulate the economy. And that may be why …
Mobile devices ship ahead of expectations, but still down 11%
Mobile device shipments globally reached 258 million handsets for the first quarter — well above forecast amounts but still an …