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IBM is using its influence in the IT arena to create the world's largest-ever grid computing system. The company envisions 10 million participants donating computing cycles to the World Community Grid, which is designed for use in scientific and environmental research projects. The Human Proteome Fo...
Dell announced today its next generation of blade server, two years after it first ventured into the market with an offering that did not take off. The PowerEdge 1855 blades, based on dual Xeon processors, will fit into a new 7U chassis built by Dell to hold up to 10 dual-processor servers. Dell has...
Dell CEO Kevin Rollins sent a clear signal to Intel, saying in an interview that the company is likely to begin using Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors in some of its products. Dell is the last holdout among PC and server makers not to use the Intel competitor's chips. "They've been getting be...
Intel announced the latest versions of its Itanium 2 processors, six chips designed to add heft to the product line. The manufacturer released three multi-processor chips, two dual-processor chips and a low-volt chip. At the high-end, the highlight of the announcements is a 1.60 GHz processor with 9...
IBM has taken an experiment -- Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer -- and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product. The Blue Gene project began five years ago with the goal of creating a family of supercomputers that could have more commercial applications beca...
Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market. The download site contains about half a million song files in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. IPods, which have captured more than 50 percent of the UK market, do not play WMA ...
Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 200...
Nokia is betting on device convergence with three new gadgets with multiple functions. The announcements were tied to the annual Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco and Destination Nokia in Bangkok. The company announced the 7710, a smartphone PDA; the 3230 camera and video recorder smartphone; and ...
Gadget geeks got a rush today when PalmOne officially announced its latest smartphone, the Treo 650, a year after its Treo 600 debuted and a week after it accidentally leaked its own press release on the product. Despite the interest in the new device -- rumors of its features began popping up on W...
A new flavor of the Bagle worm that reared its head Thursday is spreading rapidly around the Internet through e-mail and file-sharing programs. The difference between Bagle.bb and the other variants that surfaced since the initial attack is the way they are packed or which files drop onto the machin...
An investigation coordinated by the U.S. Secret Service netted 28 people suspected of operating an international cybercrime clearinghouse. Authorities made 21 arrests in the United States; seven others were arrested in six different countries. The suspects allegedly operated a sophisticated identity...
Chipmaker AMD is taking its "50x15" plan to India in a partnership with telecommunications company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) in a move analysts said blurred the lines between consumer and computing devices. VSNL will market AMD's Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) to Tata Indicom Broadband ...
The holiday gaming season officially opened Tuesday with the release of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." The third in the immensely popular line of video games -- all of which have been both praised for innovative play environments and vilified for violence and their portrayal of minorities and wome...
Nokia announced a platform Monday at the CTIA Wireless Show in San Francisco that some say will help bring the United States in line with Europe and Asia in the use of mobile content such as games and ring tones. U.S. consumers have lagged in their adoption of mobile content. Nokia is looking to cap...
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. Einstein believed that massiv...
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. Intel's exit from the digital television chip market is a sign of intern...
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. Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat/MDR, told TechNewsWorld that the slightly higher speed ...
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.
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. "University computers in general are notoriously open to attack," Steve Hunt, vice pr...
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. "They realize they're competing pretty heavily for ever...
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