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IT chief loses job, SETI@home cited as reason
A report on Network World talked about how the IT director at Arizona's Higley Unified School District lost his job following an investigation of "suspicious activities" across the 5,000-plus... Read more...
Intel to launch new Atom processors soon
If you're thinking of rewarding yourself with a new netbook with the just released Windows 7 operating system for Christmas, the latest news is that you might be better off holding off until early... Read more...
Intel to introduce new 'microserver' standard
Intel is casting its eyes toward hosting providers with a new "microserver" standard. According to Intel, the current reference system consists of a single 1.86GHz quad-core processor with four... Read more...
Newsweek: IT companies go green in a big way
Newsweek has released its first annual Green Rankings report of the nation's largest 500 companies based on their environmental performance, policies and reputation. Technology companies are very... Read more...
Data centers are wasting energy by running too cold
Running data centers at temperatures that are too cold wastes energy, says Intel's Dylan Larson. Larson is the director of platform technology initiatives in the company's server platform group. To... Read more...
AMD unveils six-core Istanbul processors
AMD, on Monday, unveiled new six-core server chips built on the 45-nanometer process. Code-named Istanbul, the five new processors will come with clock speeds of up to 2.6GHz with a power consumption... Read more...
Apple may have a job for you
Apple Inc. is always on the move and always innovating. Now it is looking to create new capacity to design its own computer chips, a move that could enable the company to offer exclusive features for... Read more...
Microsoft experiments with servers based on Intel Atom processors
Microsoft has officially unveiled its secretive Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) research unit at this week's TechFest. The software giant took the opportunity to show off a number of projects done by... Read more...
Singapore-US team creates microchip that is 30 times more power efficient
Mobile phones and other portable devices that require recharging only once every couple of weeks could soon be possible with a new microchip unveiled at the International Solid-State Circuit... Read more...
Research agency explores refrigerator peer-to-peer power management
With all the talk about going green, CSIRO, Australia's national science and research agency has come up with a design in which a network of refrigerators will coordinate their power consumption.... Read more...
