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Article | 26/08/2009 Sun plans on-chip security boost for Ultrasparc

Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs ...

Article | 26/08/2009 Fujitsu aims for 10-petaflop supercomputer

Fujitsu aims to deliver by early 2011 a 10-petaflop supercomputer, which would be almost 10 times more powerful than today's fastest system.

Article | 24/08/2009 Hot Chips to spotlight eight-core server processors

Chip makers will describe plans to deliver server processors with eight CPU cores at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, though there is ...

Article | 19/08/2009 HP's third quarter propped up by EDS buyout

Hewlett-Packard reported a 2 percent drop in revenue for the July quarter, which was better than expected, and said its business is stabilizing.

Article | 12/08/2009 Penguin puts high-performance computing in the cloud

Penguin Computing, which builds high-performance Linux clusters for tasks like weather modelling and product design, is taking its business into the c...

Article | 6/08/2009 High-end clustering tool is reworked for the enterprise

A company that develops workload management tools for high-performance clusters is bringing its products to the commercial data center, where it says ...

Article | 31/07/2009 Firefox to hit 1 billion downloads Friday

The Firefox Web browser is fast approaching its billionth download and is likely to hit that milestone some time on Friday.

Article | 29/07/2009 Microsoft and Yahoo are said to have reached a deal

Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to the terms of an online search and advertising deal that will be announced as soon as Wednesday, according to report...

Article | 29/07/2009 Sun's JRuby team jumps ship to Engine Yard

Sun Microsystems' JRuby team is leaving the company to work for application hosting company Engine Yard, citing the uncertainty surrounding Sun's plan...

Article | 25/07/2009 Microsoft offers choice of browsers to satisfy EU

Microsoft has offered to provide a choice of Web browsers with its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to ease concerns of competition regulators in t...

Article | 27/07/2009 Microsoft offers choice of browsers to satisfy EU

Microsoft has offered to provide a choice of Web browsers with its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to ease concerns of competition regulators in t...

Article | 23/07/2009 Desktop virtualization on a slow ramp, VMware chief says

Organizations are finding it hard to calculate the cost benefits of desktop virtualization and broad adoption is unlikely to happen for another year o...

Article | 23/07/2009 VMware license revenue slips 20 percent

VMware reported a drop in profit for the second quarter as businesses cut spending on new software amid the tough economy.

Article | 22/07/2009 Yahoo revenue drops, but profits rise 8 percent in Q2

Yahoo on Tuesday reported second-quarter revenue of US$1.57 billion, down 13 percent from a year earlier as companies continued to spend less on adver...

Article | 17/07/2009 Google's Q2 revenue climbs 3 percent

Google reported second-quarter revenue on Thursday of $US5.52 billion, a modest 3 percent increase from a year earlier but still ahead of analyst esti...