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The failure of a system controller card at an AT&T office in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday apparently caused a communications outage that grounded airplane flights and resulted in delays throughout the nation. The interruption of communications occurred at 11:25 a.m. CDT at one of 20 air traffic cente...
Looking back at last week, it was a combination of news from the past and news from the future. Starting out the week, we had the EU ruling come down against Microsoft. I think if the company is smart, it can play this to its advantage and actually benefit from the ruling. What took up most of my we...
Intel, which wants to be at the forefront of a trend toward more powerful mobile devices capable of full Internet capability, said its new Menlow platform will be a big part of that future. Discussed at this year's Intel Developer's Forum by Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president and general...
Intel touted its processor roadmap during its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Tuesday, and the company even showed off a working model of its 45 nanometer next-generation processor, dubbed "Nehalem," as well as functioning 32 nanometer chips. In addition, the processor giant is gearing up to ...
Hoping to offer something for all budgets and desktop computing power requirements, Advanced Micro Devices is planning to sell triple-core versions of its multi-core processors. The Phenom Triple-Core units will be less expensive than its forthcoming top-of-the-line quad-core, AMD said. "Triple-core...
I just came back from the Atlantis resort and a nice vacation playing on some incredible water slides, swimming with dolphins, and floating on a mile-long endless pool. I had a ball, but it appears that others decided to be very busy in my absence. AMD, for one, brought out its long-awaited Barcelon...
With its eye on notebook users and photo-sharing fans, Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out three new wireless mouse products and two new webcams. First, citing increasing U.S. retail notebook PC sales, Microsoft unveiled the Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 and the Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 7000, bot...
Sun Microsystems, the company whose former CEO used to denounce Microsoft as often -- and as sarcastically -- as possible, is now selling Windows. The Santa Clara, Calif., IT pioneer has "signed on" to become a Windows Server original equipment manufacturer, meaning it will install Microsoft Windows...
In the latest x86-based server processor war between Intel and AMD, both companies are on the offensive. Last week, Intel preemptively launched the first strike with its Xeon 7300 series, and Monday, AMD rolled out its Quad-Core AMD Opteron series. Both claim the quad-core name, but Intel's version ...
Lenovo introduced on Wednesday its newest energy-efficient desktop line with the ThinkCentre A61e, an ultra small form factor PC that combines a small footprint the size of a telephone book with 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron energy efficient processors. The ThinkCentre A61e takes up 25 percen...
VMware on Monday unveiled the latest version in its ESX Server line at its VMworld 2007 conference, held this week in San Francisco. The next-generation thin hypervisor, VMware ESX Server 3i, has the backing of industry heavyweights such as Dell, HP, IBM and NEC, all of whom have committed to integr...
Advanced Micro Devices has launched its long-awaited quad-core addition to its groundbreaking Opteron x86 processor lineup -- the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, a.k.a. "Barcelona," which AMD is billing as the world's first native x86 processor to go quad-core. There are several iterations of Barce...
SanDisk on Monday announced a new, pencil-thin video MP3 player that appears likely to go head-to-head with Apple's newly upgraded iPod nano. The new Sansa View combines MP3 playback capabilities with full-motion video support, a large screen, long battery life and generous capacity. Perhaps even mo...
Microsoft has upped the ante in the server virtualization space, which has thus far been primarily dominated by VMware. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has released its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 solution, which the company has been working on for the last two years. While SCVMM c...
Intel released its new lineup of Quad-Core Xeon 7300 series processors Wednesday, throwing a punch at rival Advanced Micro Devices, which plans to release its own quad-core processor line, dubbed "Barcelona," early next week. The new 7300 series from Intel can deliver more than twice the performance...