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IBM announced a new addition to its BladeCenter portfolio Monday designed to make its blade servers more open and easy to use. IBM's BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager provides I/O virtualization that can help reduce the cost and complexity to enterprise users through its open architecture, the company...
If you think accessing Internet data can be slow today, wait until 2010. That's when the Internet information glut could become unmanageable for corporate IT managers and users of enterprise applications, as well as consumers, according to Nemertes Research. In fact, according to Nemertes, avoiding ...
To help combat increasingly complicated home PC and networking environments, Microsoft has released the second major version to its Windows Live OneCare, a subscription service that helps manage security updates and performance of home and small-business PCs. Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults now o...
Just a few days have passed since the release of the Android software development kit, but already developers are knee-deep in application projects for the new cell phone platform. Perhaps spurred by the added motivation of Google's $10 million developer's challenge, a full 3,000 developers had join...
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big B...
Incompetent and rogue employees at small and medium businesses take note: AT&T has released a new remote video monitoring solution packed with big-business features for a small-business price. The company's new AT&T Remote Monitor Service includes video cameras and a range of environmental s...
The Open Handset Alliance made good on its promise to deliver a software development kit for the new Android platform Monday, and Google sweetened the offering with a new $10 million developer's challenge. The Android SDK is now available as an early look release, enabling developers to both start w...
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OL...
IBM has announced a flurry of new components that reinvigorate the company's efforts to create enterprise computing systems smart enough to manage and heal themselves. The whole concept, called "autonomic computing," is all about reducing data center complexity and creating a computing infrastructur...
Microsoft's platform of online services and applications -- aka Windows Live -- has graduated from beta after two years of development. At the Windows Live Web site, users can download software for the desktop -- such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Windows Live Writer -- and a...
After the initial warranty period has expired on a desktop or laptop computer, consumers, SOHO users and SMBs may find themselves stranded when computer woes strike. Without costly warranty extension plans or an IT department, there is little to do but pay up. An alternative to costly local repair s...
After months of speculation and rumors about its mobile plans, Google and a raft of supporting companies gathered Monday to announce Android, a new platform billed as the first truly open and comprehensive application for mobile devices. The platform is the result of a collaboration including T-Mobi...
Anticipation is building as Google prepares to formally introduce its social networking platform. Called "OpenSocial," it provides tools for developers to create applications and widgets that can be ported to any participating network. Partners that have signed on range from Friendster to Plaxo to S...
Research into encryption technology is on the rise at universities and colleges, spurred on by technological advances, pressing security needs, and new legislation and regulations. Investigators in both industrial and academic settings are now looking into a wide range of areas where encryption can ...
Google is getting set to make a splash in the burgeoning social networking space with the introduction on Thursday of OpenSocial. It is rare for Google to be behind the curve of any Internet trend -- much less one that has become nearly mainstream in the last few years. However, it's making up for l...