Announcements from four vendors this week highlight a growing trend in data center networking: the rapid uptake of 10 Gigabit …
Introducing the Wireless Gigabit Alliance
The Wireless Gigabit Alliance formally launches with a vision of wireless networking in excess of 1Gbps. The short version of …
Nvidia looks to mobile chips for growth
Graphics hardware vendor Nvidia saw its revenue drop during the first quarter of 2010 but is pinning its hopes on …
Striving for synergy
Citrix Synergy, which brings together virtualization, networking and application delivery together, got underway here in Las Vegas on Tuesday. MGM …
Citrix moves on cloud
In order to bring the economics and flexibilities of the cloud to the data centre, Citrix at its user show …
Microsoft: Windows 7 is faster on SSDs, with two caveats
Microsoft Corp. today gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) …
Microsoft delivers XP Mode add-on beta
As promised, Microsoft Corp. today launched the beta of “XP Mode,” the Windows 7 compatibility add-on that runs Windows XP …
Via may seek greater role for Nano in servers
Via Technologies may try to extend the use of its Nano processors from netbooks to servers in a potential challenge …
IBM eyes the future of virtualization
The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
It's time we faced it: The Year of the Linux Desktop, long foretold, isn't coming. Year after year, breathless pundits …
HP Launches MediaSmart Server LX195
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its latest Windows Home Server device, the MediaSmart LX195. This tapered model is slimmer and more graceful-looking than …
HP unveils low-cost business laptops
Hewlett-Packard launched a new line of low-cost business notebooks called the ProBook s-series that merge business functionality with consumer goodies …
Win 7, Snow Leopard could give graphics chip a spark
Graphics chip shipments fell during the first quarter this year, but could stabilize later this year as people look to …
Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice.org’s independence
Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The downfall of Sun Microsystems
Oracle's surprising $7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the …
‘First Android netbook to cost about $250’
The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available …