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ALSO NOTED: Next version of IE will be IE8; 20 percent of French iPhones sold unlocked;
> Next version of IE will be IE8. Article> Samsung to reveal world's first 1.3-inch hard drive Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Dell prepping 30" display with HDMI and DisplayPort; T-Mobile Sidekick Slide has sliding problems;
> IBM's BlueGene/L continues to dominate the supercomputer charts. Article> Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Palm Treo 800w revealed?; OLPC XO sees production delays;
> Verizon pays out as part of a misleading data plan settlement. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: iTunes DRM-free tracks drop to $0.99, as expected; HTC to ship 50,000 Google Phones this year?;
> iTunes DRM-free tracks drop to $0.99, as expected. Article> Linus Torvalds' own family uses Windows. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: More remote IT workers than in years past; IBM and HP duke it out over supercomputers;
> More remote IT workers than in years past. Article > Sun Microsystems posts profit after five quarterly losses. Read more...
Big Blue is still Mr. Big of supercomputers
It has only been eight years since the supercomputer crossed the 4 teraflops (4 trillion calculations per second) mark. But the leader then remains the leader now and Big Blue is not looking back. Read more...
The era of the supercomputer is dawning
Just as the mainframe barreled into the enterprise in the 1970s, the supercomputer is poised to make a dramatic impact on the enterprise of the 21st century. A supercomputer today is Read more...
ALSO NOTED: HP leaks investigation goes back to Fiorina; Sprint offers new mobile security service; and much more...
> HP leaks investigation goes back to Fiorina. Article
> Sprint offers new mobile security service. Article
> Security tech not doing its part, some say. Article
> Turn graphics cards into a supercomputer. …
Read more...Need for speed spurs Federal computing investment
The federal government is turning its attention, and its money, to supercomputing. The government hopes to build supercomputers that break the current barriers in terms of computing speed, far Read more...
SGI adds x86 servers, ready to exit bankruptcy?
Silicon Graphics, still struggling to survive after going bankrupt in May, now is launching a line of x86 servers. Its high-end servers use Intel Itanium chips, which haven't been very popular in the marketplace. The new servers, called Altix XE, are intended for Linux clustering and use Intel's latest dual-core Xeon chips--the 5100 "Woodcrest" series. SGI also announced a new midrange blade server, the Altix 450. (Email …
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