To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
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Google responded to allegations it stopped the launch of a new Acer smartphone in China, by stating that the handset's Chinese-developed mobile OS was "apparently derived" from Android, but still not fully compatible with the Android ...
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A new approach to mobile Internet protocols could improve the usability and reliability of mobile applications. At the annual Usenix tech conference last month in Boston, two MIT researchers formally unveiled a new protocol, and a remote ...
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NEW YORK, NY, August 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- It is no secret that full-time IT support staffers are expensive. NyTech Services LLC Provides a cost efficient solution for small businesses looking to reduce their overhead costs while ...
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Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud,hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers. The company has ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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After months of heralding its Clover Trail processor for Windows 8 tablets, Intel on Thursday unveiled the chip that it believes is its ticket to success in the ARM-dominated market. Tablets with Clover Trail, aka the Atom Z2760 chip, ...
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After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months, mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of work required to ...
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Anticipating greater usage of Ubuntu within the enterprise, Canonical has released a significant update to its Landscape Ubuntu system management tool. “We have really been cranking up the level of effort with Landscape over the ...
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Microsoft's"Secure Boot"plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community,and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical's decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as ...
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PC World-With so many Linux distributions out there,it can be difficult to keep tabs on all the updates that come out over the course of an average week or month. I've featured a few key arrivals over the past few months--including ...
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There's no doubt that demand for IT professionals with Linux skills is growing rapidly,and earlier this year I wrote about a brand-new certification program targeting newcomers to the open-source operating system. At the time,the Linux ...
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Intel has said it’s on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year, brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for Unix ...
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Ramzi Rahal, Director of IT, Daman Red Hat today announced that Daman, the UAE’s first specialised national health insurance company, has migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform. The move intends to significantly ...
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Intel has introduced two new network-attached storage (NAS) controllers for home and small business users. The NAS platforms can support from two to six drives and can be used to share content in a home or be accessed remotely by mobile ...
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