A NEW software component that ensures an operating system will "never" crash has been developed in Australia, and is potentially destined to earn billions of dollars in royalties.
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The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is:
2.6.31-rc5-git8
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Over the past few months, Google has been working on optimizing its search engine architecture for better, faster results. For some this may seem ridiculous: isn't Google already the fastest and most reliable search engine out there? Perhaps, but Google isn't about to rest on its laurels; it's committed to evolution.
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The developer of the market-leading browser has become more actively engaged in hashing out many details of a proposed revamp of the Web page standard.
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A new file transfer service from Memeo claims to bring simple, unlimited transfers to the office. How well does it do?
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Alerts for a new beta test popped up and then disappeared. From what it looks like, a new stripped-down Facebook profile feature hit the Web prematurely.
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Vendors have been moving to liquid cooling on servers to reduce heat in data centers, but Hewlett-Packard Co. said today that it is expanding use of liquid cooling on its workstations to tackle another problem: whiney and irritating fans.
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A letter from The Securities and Exchange Commission to Intel will not form the basis of a future episode of "24."
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Sanyo's new Eneloop Portable Solar USB solar panels can charge your cellphone and other mobile devices. They're fairly compact and easily portable as well.
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Microsoft aims to make a much different first impression with Windows 7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor.
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ZDNet: "A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers."

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Two major identity management companies are forging ahead with products designed to satisfy what a cloud-computing consortium calls one of the trickiest problems preventing secure and automated connections between internal IT infrastructures and external service providers: identity and authentication.
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Two major identity management companies are forging ahead with products designed to satisfy what a cloud-computing consortium calls one of the trickiest problems preventing secure and automated connections between internal IT infrastructures and external service providers: identity and authentication.
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ItRunsOnLinux: "Tiny Core Linux v2.2 is released. Tiny Core Linux is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux Desktop, which runs very well on a Netbook. It is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, Fltk & Jwm. The core runs entirely in ram & boots very quickly." View article...

At SIGGRAPH, Intel made available version 2.2 of Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), the most widely used high level programming method for parallelism. Intel TBB 2.2 maintains the functionality and platform support of previous versions and adds numerous feature and performance improvements, including full support for the lambda capabilities of the new C++ draft standard (C++0x) and more flexibility for ISVs to redistribute with applications using Intel TBB. Autodesk Maya* and Epic Games Unreal Engine* are among the applications that will be reshipping some or all of Intel TBB 2.2 to support ecosystem developers. More>>>

Microsoft's Windows Division president Steven Sinofsky tried Wednesday to tamp down a growing roar that Windows 7 RTM has a critical flaw that can shut down the OS by running a simple command. "Sorry to get dragged into this," wrote Sinofsky, taking the unusual step of responding via the comments section of an industry blog called Chris123NT's blog. Monday, the blog posted a recipe to execute the crash and included a picture of the results. More>>>
Reference Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM

It's a good time to work in the security field. Nemertes has completed it's research benchmark for the first half of 2009, incorporating interviews with IT and security executives during a recession. The research participants told us that they consider security and compliance spending to be "recession proof", third only to data network and voice/telecom spending. More>>>

Currently, you can get the 8GB version of the older iPhone 3G for $99 with a two-year contract. But rumor has it that an 8GB 3GS may be right around the corner--and it may also cost $99. More>>>

Google has reached an agreement to buy video compression technology vendor On2 Technologies in a stock deal worth about US$106.5 million, the companies announced. More>>>

The Intel Premier IT Professional site offers a new server efficiency tool that gives IT professionals a snapshot of their current performance and energy efficiency versus what it could be by turning up the number of processor cores and use of virtualization. It also compares their data centers with those of other IPIP members. More>>>

Intel is excited to announce the launch of Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 - the first in a series of RAID products designed to deliver significant performance improvements and SAS 2.0 features to Intel-based servers. The Intel "RS2" portfolio of Intel RAID products will allow customers to design higher-performing storage solutions for a diverse set of environments including those based on either mainstream 3Gb/s SAS/SATA or the latest 6Gb/s SAS drives. More>>>

With "YDL on a Stick," installation has never been easier--simply plug-in the USB stick, install the bootloader, boot into YDL--and you're running Linux on your PS3. More>>>

The processor power needed to handle complex calculations is often in short supply. To help address this need, Intel Corporation today announced Progress Thru Processors, a new volunteer computing application built on the Facebook platform that allows people to donate their PCs' unused processor power to research projects such as Rosetta@home, which uses the additional computing power to help find cures for cancer and other diseases such as HIV and Alzheimer's. More>>>

Network Address Translation helps improve security by reusing IP addresses. The NAT router translates traffic coming into and leaving the private network. More>>>

Just a small article on how to build your first ARM binary using your vanilla gcc crosscompiler. More>>>

Workflow software as a Service is a model of software deployment where the workflow server is hosted at the workflow vendor, and the workflow functionality is provided to customers across the internet as a rented service. Read more...