Intel Details Larrabee Processor Architecture
Intel describes aspects of its Larrabee microarchitecture, including the design of an x86 processing core developed specifically for the chip. The chip maker explains why its engineers believe the Larrabee processor will usher in a new era of parallel software programming. - Intel is offering the first in-depth look at its Larrabee processor and the
chip maker plans to offer the microprocessor to address a range of graphics and
visual applications using x86 processing cores instead of more traditional GPUs.
In a paper, quot;Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture f...
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Shareholders Back Yahoo Board
A deal to placate dissident activist Carl Icahn cooled down the annual shareholders' meeting considerably. Icahn will join the board in a few weeks and will also get two of his business pals to join him on the board in an effort to change the way the struggling media company does business. - SAN JOSE, Calif. What might have been a very loud and nasty Yahoo shareholder uprising if activist
billionaire shareholder Carl Icahn had been present at the annual conference
here at the Fairmont Hotel Aug. 1 actually turned out to be a rather docile
gathering of business folks.
At least, t...
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Microsoft Is Looking Cloudward
Ideally, the cloud versus on-premises debate should fade away. Can Microsoft's Exchange Online strategy fulfill cloud computing's platform-agnostic promise? - After spending
some time with Microsoft's forthcoming Exchange Online service, I've been
thinking about the promise as well as the current reality of the company's
software-plus-services strategy for addressing IT's apparently cloud-filled
future.
The software-plus-services pitch goes somethin...
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Sun: MySQL 5.1 Open-Source Database GA Near
Officials at Sun say the MySQL 5.1 open-source database will be generally available in the coming weeks. Sun had said MySQL 5.1 would be available earlier in 2008, but had to delay the release to allow developers to fix bugs. - Open-source
database users can expect the final version of MySQL 5.1 to be ready for
general availability in a few weeks, after Sun Microsystems makes sure any
major bugs have been squashed.
quot;We're just drilling into a couple more areas, just to double-check. My
expectation is that that ...
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KDE 4.1 Pushes Cross-Platform Support, UI
The free software Linux desktop KDE 4.1 advances the KDE Project's goals of cross-platform support and helps make the user interface more attractive. The KDE Project looked to Apple as an example of the importance of an attractive UI. - With the release
of Version 4.1 of the KDE Linux desktop July 29, the KDE community made
statements on several fronts, including advanced cross-platform support and
overall improvements in the look and feel of the GUI.
In an interview with eWEEK, Adriaan de Groot, vice president of KDE
e.V., th...
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Turning the Electronic Eye on Google
The National Legal and Policy Center claims Google is hypocritical in its privacy stance, and uses Google's Street View and Earth applications to find a senior Google executive's home. The experiment followed Google's claim in a court filing that privacy is tough to come by in a world of satellite imagery. - Google takes a lot of flak for what some politicians and pundits claim is a two-faced stance on privacy. Now a privacy watchdog is trying to show Google what it's like when its own satellite imagery software is turned against it.
The NLPC (National Legal and Policy Center) used Google's own Stre...
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Sounds Off at F8
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg irked some media members by dodging questions about social network monetization and OpenSocial during a question-and-answer session at Facebook's F8 Conference July 23. However, he tempered the artful dodging with thoughtful answers to some questions. Here are some of the top Zuckerberg quotes from F8. - by Clint Boulton
quot;I really want to see us build a product that lets you really feel a person and understand what's going on with them. quot;
In outlining his opening comments at F8, Zuckerberg implied the need for Facebook #8212;and social networks in general #8212;to be more intellige...
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Comcast Guilty of Net Neutrality Violations
FCC holds nation's second largest broadband provider broke network neutrality principles when it throttled P2P traffic from BitTorrent. FCC rejects Comcast contention that network throttling is part of routine network management by broadband service providers. - In the first major test of the FCC's (Federal Communications Commission) network neutrality principles, the agency found Comcast guilty Aug. 1 of secretly degrading network traffic. On a 3-2 vote, the FCC ordered Comcast to stop blocking traffic, disclose to the FCC the full extent of the cable gian...
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Infosys Gives a Storewide View
Infosys rolls out ShoppingTrip 360 platform, a managed service that retailers can use for greater visibility into what shoppers are doing and buying. - Infosys is positioning ShoppingTrip360, a platform based on a network of
tiny wireless devices, as a way to answer questions retailers and consumer
packaged goods companies have about in-store activities.
The business solutions provider announced ShoppingTrip360 July 31.
“There was a lack of gra...
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RedPrairie Seeks Supply Chain Unification
RedPrairie is outfitting its E2e Supply Chain Execution suite with new capabilities to unify the supply chain process and give enterprises greater visibility into their inventory. - RedPrairie
is integrating RFID (radio-frequency identification) and AIDC
(automatic identification and data capture) technologies into its E2e Supply Chain Execution suite.
The company intends for the upgraded suite, which was released July 31, to unify the supply chain process.
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