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IBM Adds Open-Source Agility to Transaction-Processing OS

Users of Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), IBM's mainframe operating system, seem to have both pride in the OS and an inferiority complex, often referring to it as "IBM's unknown operating system." Even IBM called it "little known" in a press release for its latest version of the system, z/TPF ...

As Einstein Predicted, Earth Distorts Time, Space

Scientists have found direct evidence that massive objects in space do pull the space surrounding them, a phenomenon called "frame-dragging" that was first predicted in 1918 using Einstein's theory of general relativity. The findings were reported in the journal Nature ...

No Intel Inside TV

Intel said today it has shelved plans to design a LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip for flat-panel televisions. Intel first touted the chip nine months ago, saying it would drop the price of flat-screen TVs to under $2,000 ...

Analysts Yawn at Intel’s Slightly Speedier Centrino

Just days after dropping prices on its line of Centrino mobile processors for notebook PCs, Intel has added an incrementally speedier chip: the Pentium M 765. Analysts said the new chip is no big deal ...

NEC Nips IBM in Supercomputer Race

NEC has upped the high-performance computer ante, launching today what it called the world's most powerful vector supercomputer. The company said the SX-8 has a peak processing performance of 65 teraflops. That speed, however, which would require 512 nodes running together, has not yet been tested ...

UC Berkeley Hack Not Unusual, Analyst Says

The hack into a UC Berkeley computer that compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people may not be uncommon, according to analysts. The amount of information compromised, however, is huge ...

Intel Slashes Prices in Battle for Market Share

Intel announced today that it will slash prices on its processors used in mobile computers by up to one-third. The move comes as the holiday season approaches without any sign that consumer demand will grow or even remain steady, analysts said ...

AMD Offers Gourmet Chip

While ultra-high clock speeds may make gamers salivate, the need for ever-rising numbers in other applications is highly dubious ...

Sip and Burn at Starbucks

Will the caffeine and music combo make consumers want to dance in the aisles at Starbucks? Or will spills of sweet, creamy drinks stick the coffee powerhouse with a crashing failure? ...

Dell Delves Deeper into Home Entertainment

Dell pushed further into the home-entertainment market Thursday, floating a raft of products to entice holiday shoppers with lower prices on top-shelf items such as plasma TVs. Dell has dubbed the concept behind its products "the digital living room." ...

Cisco, IBM Team Up on Security

IBM and Cisco announced software security updates designed to further protect networks from worms and viruses ...

Oracle’s Ellison Might Tackle NFL in Los Angeles

Apparently Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison isn't getting the satisfaction he needs churning turf in his bid for software maker PeopleSoft ...

Patch Holes Quickly, Microsoft Urges

Microsoft released a total of 22 patches in its monthly security update, labeling seven of them "urgent" and imploring companies to download them ...

IBM Gets Flexible with Small Storage Systems

With the proclamation that it intends to overtake EMC as the top enterprise storage supplier, IBM announced today the DS6000, a disk storage system slightly bigger than a VCR, and the TotalStorage DS8000, which can act either as a single system or, through partitioning, as multiple systems ...

Virgin Shoulders into iPod’s Terrain

The MP3 player market, where the iPod Mini once stood alone, will soon have several new entries. IDC predicted last month that the segment will grow from 12.5 million units sold last year to more than 50 million units in 2008 ...

Sony Moves Forward with Blu-Ray DVD Standard

Firing the latest salvo in the war over next-generation DVD formats, electronics companies Sony, Matsushita Electric and Sharp plan to release camcorders using the Blu-ray DVD format in 2005 ...

Google Creates Searchable Book Library

Google announced it is adding the text of books to its searchable database, furthering its bold mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." ...

AMD Claims It Will Beat Intel with Dual-Core Opteron

Advanced Micro Devices' dual-core Opteron processor will boost performance 30 to 55 percent over single-core Opterons, the company said at the Fall Processor Forum yesterday. AMD also said it is on target to release the chips for one- to eight-way servers in mid-2005, beating Intel to market ...

IBM Integrates Biometrics into ThinkPad

The integration of a fingerprint scanner into IBM's new ThinkPad T42 series of notebooks opens the door for a whole host of secure transactions, but some analysts suggest that there are still flaws in the system ...

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