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The processor wars break out again as AMD announces its quad-core Barcelona chip will become generally available in April, but a newly announced six-core processor developed by rival Intel also surfaces.
After months of delays, Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Barcelona chip will become generally available in April, but a newly announced six-core processor developed by rival Intel will force AMD to play catchup once again.
Intel on Monday said a six-core processor code-named Dunnington will be available in the second half of this year. AMD, meanwhile,...
Deal is one of many forged with Office Communications Server
Microsoft Corp. and Aspect Software Inc. today announced a five-year alliance to deliver unified communications capabilities to corporate contact centers via Microsoft Office Communications Server(OCS) 2007.
The deal is not exclusive, and Microsoft already works with Nortel Networks Corp. to provide technology based on OCS 2007, Gurdeep Pall, vice president of unified communications at Microsoft, said during a conference call today. Nortel also provides contact center technology and competes...
Collaboration plan set to be unveiled tomorrow; likely won't open-source all of Visual Studio
Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, used last year's EclipseCon conference to criticize Microsoft Corp.'s longtime lack of participation in the open-source community. Microsoft, he said, sent representatives to the conference every year, and they always agreed that the two camps should set up a meeting. Once the conferences ended, however, Microsoft didn't respond to Eclipse Foundation requests to schedule a get-together, he noted.
After final space walk Monday night, all that's left are more tests and Dextre's first job
With power flowing and arms, cameras and even a tool belt in place, NASA's space robot is ready for work.
After a few hairy days last week, the assembly of Dextre, the $200 million Canadian-built robot has gone like clockwork, according to Allard Beutel, a spokesman for NASA.
Tuesday night's space walk was the last one needed to get Dextre up and running. Now, the 12-foot-tall robot with a 30-foot wing span will undergo a series of tests to make...
Still says Microsoft bid undervalues the company
Yahoo Inc. today released a three-year financial plan that says the company will roughly double its operating cash flow from $1.9 billion to $3.7 billion and generate $8.8 billion in revenue, excluding costs, in 2010.
Yahoo executives first presented the plan to the company's board of directors in December, before Microsoft Corp. had made its unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer, according to a statement.
Yahoo said its investor presentation supports the board's unanimous decision to reject...
Exec says systems running quad-core chips will be rolled out by various vendors by mid-year
The first systems running Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s new quad-core Barcelona chip are expected to hit the market in April, AMD executives said today.
Pushing the delayed processor out into the market will give the company a boost in what has been a lagging competition with rival Intel. Kevin Knox, vice president of AMD's commercial business, told Computerworld today that a series of hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc....
After a six-week delay, Microsoft releases update to most, but not all, users
As expected, Microsoft Corp. released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Update today, making it available to most, though not all, users.
It also posted a much larger stand-alone installation package to its download site this morning. The installers weigh in at 434MB for the 32-bit version and 726MB for the 64-bit edition.
"Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update," said Nick White, a Vista program manager, in a post...
Open-source VLC software at risk
A flaw in the widely-used open-source VLC media player could allow an attacker to execute harmful code on a PC.
The problem stems from a buffer overflow that can occur when the player processes subtitle files used for movies, according to a security advisory.
The vulnerability existed before VLC was upgraded to version 0.8.6e in late February, but the bug appears to have escaped the last round of patches, wrote Luigi Auriemma in a note.
"The funny thing is that my old proof-of-concept was built just...
Chip maker updates road map: Nehalem and Tukwila delivery in Q4; 32nm as early as '09
Intel Corp. today announced that it expects to ship a six-core processor to resellers in the second half of this year.
With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of Level 3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
"The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance,"...
New hardware, new services in an everything-but-the-humans offering
Hewlett-Packard Co. is now doing what Sears, Roebuck and Co., once did: It's not only offering its customers new appliances, it's selling the house to put them in. The house, in HP's case, is a data center; the vendor is making data center design and consulting part of a broader portfolio of customer services.
HP is offering itself up as a primary data center contractor to customers, a direction made possible through its acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities Inc. in February....
Both companies say users can update to SP1 online
Microsoft Corp. late Monday inadvertently confirmed that Windows Vista users will be able to upgrade to Service Pack 1 (SP1) starting tomorrow.
The news had been expected, with some Web sites, including TechARP.com, calling the date several weeks ago.
In an e-mail meant to clarify when Amazon.com Inc. could begin shipping retail copies of Vista SP1, a company spokeswoman noted that Vista users could get the update on March 18.
"When looking at Amazon's site, you will see separate...
Enterprise impact won't rival the disruption caused by IE7
Microsoft Corp.'s decision to make Internet Explorer 8 default to a new "super standards" mode that better adheres to Web standards means the browser won't have as big an impact on enterprises as some have feared, a research analyst said today.
"Although Microsoft worries that IE8 may 'break the Web,' as they put it, I don't think the move from IE7 to IE8 will have the same kind of impact [as moving] from IE6 to IE7," said Ray Valdes, Gartner Inc.'s chief analyst on browsers.
Nanotech switch designed to boost performance while lowering power usage
IBM today announced that its scientists have built a switch that can control the flow of information on a chip using pulses of light instead of electrons.
The new nanotech switch, which is 100 times smaller than a human hair, is designed to enable researchers to build chips that will have greater performance but use less energy, IBM said on Monday.
"This new development is a critical addition in the quest to build an on-chip optical network," said Yurii Vlasov,...
Schmidt says he fears for the openness of the Internet if deal goes through
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said today that he would be concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp. were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo Inc.
Last month, Microsoft proposed buying Yahoo in a deal originally worth $44.6 billion, but Yahoo's board rejected the offer, saying it was too low.
"We would be concerned by any kind of acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft," Schmidt told reporters. "We would hope that anything they...
In front of me, two 30-in. Apple Cinema Displays glow softly at my desk. Beside me sits the fastest stock-configuration Macintosh that Apple Inc. has ever shipped: a superfast eight-core Mac Pro. Inside the Mac -- and on full display on those screens -- is Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, Apple's latest operating system. All around me is the work I've been putting off that is now getting done.
The latest update to Apple's Mac Pro desktop line was unveiled early in January, just before this year's Macworld Expo. The timing of the announcement raised a few questions -- for example,...
Intel on Friday confirmed it will ship quad-core chips designed specifically for notebooks, most likely for desktop replacement laptops, later this year.
The quad-core chips will be based on the Core 2 Duo microarchitecture and will ship in the third quarter, Intel officials said.
Intel declined comment on chip details, though enthusiast Web sites reported the chip is Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9300. The chips will be manufactured using the new 45-nanometer process.
The chip will be released after Intel's Centrino 2 platform, code-named Montevina, is launched in the...
Engineers solve the mystery behind their unresponsive $200 million robot
Dextre, the giant robot being assembled on the International Space Station, has regained its power.
The glitch that left the robot unresponsive was not an issue with the robot itself, but with a faulty cable that should have been feeding it electricity and computer commands.
After several days of engineers from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency grappling to find an answer to why the $200 million, 12-foot-tall robot wouldn't power up or respond to computer commands,...
Plugging leaks and other memory reduction work pays off, say developers, in Beta 4
Work done to plug Firefox's memory leaks and reduce its RAM profile has paid off, two of Mozilla Corp.'s engineers said today, as they claimed that the newest beta of their open-source browser uses less memory than rivals such as Internet Explorer and Opera.
According to Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter, who was instrumental in managing the memory reduction work, Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 uses less memory than IE7, Opera 9.5 Beta 1 and Firefox 2.0.0.12 while it opens...
NASA tries software patch when giant robot won't power up, suspects faulty cable
Computer programmers and engineers are troubleshooting a problem with a 3,400-lb. robot that is orbiting about 220 miles above Earth.
Earlier this week, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off carrying nine robotic components -- the makings of Dextre, a 12-ft. tall robot with a wing span of 30 feet. The $200 million robot, built by the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert, Quebec, is designed to handle maintenance on the outer walls of the International Space Station.
While touting Android platform, Miner says rival iPhone is innovative but also has faults
While lauding Apple's iPhone as being innovative in the mobile space, a Google official Thursday later cited disadvantages of the device, which is expected to compete with upcoming Google-backed Android phones.
Speaking at the eComm conference in Mountain View, Calif., Google's Rich Miner, group manager for mobile platforms, discussed the longstanding obstacles to mobile application deployment and how they are being overcome. Apple's iPhone was cited for its innovations.
Microsoft 'testing a fix' after Tuesday's patch loosed new Excel 2003 bug
Microsoft Corp. yesterday told Excel users that one of the 12 patches issued Tuesday causes the spreadsheet to make mistakes in some calculations.
In a warning posted Thursday, Bill Sisk, security response communications manager, said that the fixes outlined in the MS08-014 bulletin "causes Microsoft Excel 2003 calculations to return an incorrect result when a Real Time Data source is used."
According to a more detailed addition to MS08-014, Excel 2003 Service...
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. executives met for the first time on Monday to discuss Microsoft's initial $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for the company, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
The meeting is the first since Microsoft made the unsolicited offer on Jan. 31, and gave Microsoft a chance to pitch its vision of the future of the two companies. Yahoo rejected the initial offer last month, saying it was too low.
The meeting included several executives from both companies but was not a negotiation, and no investment bankers attended, the report said. No further...
Virus encyclopedia served up script-injection infection
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. confirmed Thursday that "some portions" of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pages had been serving up attack code to unsuspecting visitors.
"I can't confirm or deny the details," said Mike Sweeny, a spokesman for the Tokyo-based security company, on Thursday afternoon. "Some pages were compromised, but we took those pages down and took corrective action hours ago." When pressed for more information,...
Patches Excel, fixes two-dozen bugs, but some users complain they can't update
Microsoft Corp. patched the latest version of Office for Mac yesterday to fix more than two-dozen problems, including a security snafu revealed just days after the suite was launched in mid-January.
Some users, however, have reported problems getting their machines to "see" the update.
Dubbed Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1, the update patches three vulnerabilities in Excel, the suite's spreadsheet application, that were noted yesterday when Microsoft rolled...
Users say it's twice as fast as Safari, three times faster than IE
An important consideration is the increase of the volume of data created by virtual environments
It's been said that a server virtualization project is actually an infrastructure redesign project. In areas related to storage and data protection, the impact can be dramatic both in terms of the volume of data and in the operations to support and protect it. Backup is a particular case in point.
Fundamentally, there are two approaches to backup in VMware environments: the first is to mimic the traditional physical server backup approach by installing backup...
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