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Introducing a new, more sophisticated architecture intended to spiff up and speed up high-end PC gaming, Nvidia rolled out its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) and a new media communications processor (MCP) for Intel multi-core processors this week Nividia said its GeForce 8800 GPU and nForce 680i SLI MCP would bring high-resolution and high-d...
Intel this week unveiled SuiteTwo, a software bundle of Web 2.0 software services -- including collaboration, blogging, RSS (really simple syndication), search and Wiki technology -- aimed at small- and medium-size businesses Announced at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, SuiteTwo was produced by Intel's investment arm, Intel Capital, and wi...
The last three weeks have provided the biggest news stories to hit Linux in a long time, raising many questions and stirring speculation. What doesOracle have in mind -- cutting intoRed Hat's revenue for its own profit, or weakening theenterprise Linux leader for acquisition? What will its partnership withMicrosoft do forNovell, and will the noise ...
The Mozilla Foundation, backer of the Firefox browser, will use code from Adobe to make the Flash player more flexible and interoperable with other Web scripting tools, Adobe announced this week Mozilla's use of ActionScript Virtual Machine code, the scripting engine of Adobe's popular Flash Player, is expected to ease JavaScript functionality in F...
Virtualization technology upstartXenSource has announced XenEnterprise, a commercial virtualization package that supports Windows and Linux. The new product challenges VMware's dominance in the market for server virtualization, and for support and management of virtualization Until now, XenSource has focused on including its open source Xen hypervi...
Fulfilling the predictions of many security experts, hackers have invaded a "social networking" Web site. The German version of the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia was used to post Web links that could spread malicious code Security software vendor Sophos reported Friday that links purporting to offer a fix to the MS Blaster computer worm led users ...
Much of the focus and fight over the next draft of the GNU general public license Version 3 (GPLv3) has centered on digital rights management (DRM) and patent provisions. However, GPLv3, which is slated for final release next year, also tries to address another challenge for the free and open source software (FOSS) community: license proliferation ...
Microsoft andNovell announced this week a deal to promote and support Novell's Suse Linux alongside Windows. That's right, Microsoft will promote and support Linux -- but only as long as it's from Novell Following last week's big news of an Oracle-Linux play, Microsoft and Novell said that they would not only support each other in sales and technol...
There was little fanfare but far-reaching ramifications for the PC industry this week as Dell rolled out its first notebook computers powered by processors from Advanced Micro Devices Despite Dell's lack of marketing behind the move -- which follows on the PC giant's splashier offering of AMD desktops earlier this fall -- its use of non-Intel hardw...
Microsoft announced Tuesday a close technical collaboration with Zend, the programming language vendor that currently dominates Web-based scripting with the open source PHP language Microsoft and Zend said their collaboration would provide a production-level PHP runtime environment for the next rev of Windows Server (Longhorn), Windows XP, Windows ...
Access this week announced a Linux and open source software application framework for mobile devices, which will be open to developers under the Mozilla Public License The Access application framework is tuned for mobile phones and devices, and includes services for installing, managing and allowing communication between software applications....
As founder, president and chief executive officer of custom PC maker Velocity Micro, Randy Copeland has seen a lot of change over his 15 years in the business. New consoles and online play were key additions to the industry. Perhaps most significant, however, is the purchase of competitors by PC giants Dell, which bought Alienware, and more recently Hewlett-Packard, which bought Voodoo...
Sourcefire, provider of open source security software Snort and other intrusion detection and prevention solutions, filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) The IPO is a rarity in that it involves a security company, as well as a company that relies on open source development and software...
Oracle has stirred up the tech world with the announcement of its "Unbreakable Linux" strategy. The company's announcement that it will support its own version of Red Hat Linux has already made an impact, as evidenced by Red Hat's quick response under the banner "Unfakeable Linux." It is still unknown whether Oracle will succeed in undercutting Red...
Ubuntu -- an increasingly popular, Debian Linux-based operating system -- just got updated by its commercial backer Canonical, giving users of the new software an improved interface, faster boot time and better security, the company said this week Dubbed "Edgy Eft," Ubuntu 6.10 is freely available and carries on the operating system's trademark usa...
Picking up the pace after somewhat of a piecemeal approach to open sourcing the Java programming language over the last several months, Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz said the company will open the core Java code to the community by year's end Speaking at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Schwar...
After US$5.4 billion dollars and nearly a year of discussions, Advanced Micro Devices finalized its takeover of graphics chip maker ATI, setting the stage for a revived fight with Intel and Nvidia, which becomes the Intel graphics partner by default AMD -- which promised integrated platforms next year for commercial, gaming and media computing -- s...
Amid an enormous amount of buzz, software giant Oracle laid out its plans for Linux at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week, indicating that it will use Red Hat Linux as the foundation for an Oracle-branded "Unbreakable Linux." During his keynote Wednesday, Oracle chief Larry Ellison announced a Red Hat path that will promote the Lin...
Fresh off its deal with PC manufacturer Lenovo for Suse Linux-based ThinkPad mobile workstations, Novell trumpeted deals with four, smaller "whitebox" PC makers to pre-install Suse Linux on their desktop and notebook computers The Linux vendor has inked agreements with European vendors ETegro Technologies, Maxdata and Transtec, and U.S.-based R-Cub...
The Mozilla Foundation this week made available its Firefox 2.0 browser, adding enhanced search and security features to its open source alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That program was updated itself last week, with Redmond's release of IE7 New Firefox features include an updated user interface with more visible toolbar buttons, buil...
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