Intel 'Tukwila' born after long and painful labor
Blame it on marketing
Intel officially announced its long delayed Tukwila "mission-critical" server processor today - now officially dubbed the Itanium 9300 series - providing a few more details about the 2-billion transistor part and giving some color on why it was over three years late.…
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HP Updates Its SharePoint Records Management Package
HP on Feb. 8 introduced a new version of its Web-based records management package, TRIM [Total Records Information Management] 7, that enables enterprises to manage all of their Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment -- regardless of the source of each document. - Hewlett-Packard is coming at enterprise storage organization problems from a Microsoft SharePoint -- read that non-storage -- vantage point.
HP on Feb. 8 introduced a new version of its Web-based records management package, TRIM [Total Records Information Management] 7, that enables enterprises t...
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SourceForge reverses ban on US foes
U-turn on 'blanket blocking'
Open Source code repository SourceForge.net has pulled a U-turn on a widely unpopular decision to ban users from accessing its website from countries under US trade restrictions.…
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Oracle issues emergency security patch for WebLogic
'Full disclosure' yields results
Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.…
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Microsoft tests show no Win 7 battery flaw
Replace battery warnings correct, says Redmond
Microsoft says that extensive testing and conversations with OEMs indicate that Windows 7 is handling notebook batteries exactly as intended - despite user claims that upgrades to the new OS have caused significant degradation to battery life.…
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IBM Aims New Power7 Systems at the Smarter Planet
IBM launched a set of new Power7 systems that deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems, the company said. - NEW YORK -- IBM launched a set of new Power7 systems that deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems, the company said.
At an old fashioned reach-out-and-touch launch at the s...
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New Intel Itanium Offers Greater Performance, Memory Capacity
It may be two years late, but Intels Tukwila Itanium processor offers twice the number of cores as the current Montecito version, significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intels high-end Xeon server chip and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes the same day that IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business. - It took a little longer than expected, but Intel officials have finally released the long-awaited Tukwila, the next-generation Itanium processor that offers significant advances in performance and scalability and a host of features that improve everything from virtualization capabilities to reliab...
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10 Reasons Why the Linux Community Could Influence iPhone Sales
News Analysis: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that he has purchased and likes Google's Nexus One smartphone. It's no small endorsement. With Torvalds' support comes a full Linux community that is ready and willing to take on the iPhone. - Although the combined market share of Linux distributions pales in
comparison with Windows or Mac OS X, the Linux community is strong, engaged
and, perhaps most importantly, loyal. Part of that is due to the community's
strong feelings against closed software, especially products sold by Microsof...
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Barnes and Noble's Nook E-Reader Now In Stock, Soon In Stores
Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader experienced months of delays due to supposed demand, a situation that may be changing with the booksellers announcement that the Nook would be available in most stores starting midweek. The Nook is also listed as in stock online. Competition in the e-reader arena has heated up as the Nook, Amazon.com's Kindle, and soon the Apple iPad all compete for dominancy of the e-text market, with technological innovations and pricing seen as key factors in whether the manufacturers will seize a majority of market-share. -
Barnes amp; Noble announced Feb. 8 that its Nook e-reader would be
available in most of its stores nationwide by midweek, possibly bringing an end
to months of delays for the devices. The Nook was also listed as quot;In Stock quot; on
Barnes amp; Noble's Website.
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Application Whitelisting Isn't Too Bad
AppLocker is Microsofts take on application whitelisting, a process by which a user can only run applications or processes that are expressly permitted by policy. - Six months ago, when I started using Windows 7 full time on
my primary system, I wanted to take better advantage of the new operating
systems baked-in security features. I had already been running as a
limited-rights user that needed a separate administrator password to affect
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