Running one component of a system for testing purposes. See system test.
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- A project under development from IBM is setting new records for data-transfer speeds using solid-state technology with one million input/outputs per second. IBM has said its 'Project Quicksilver' is setting new records for data-transfer speeds on solid-state technology, with its tests showing a disk-storage solution hitting one million input/outputs...
- News items 2008-08-29
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- MegaCrammer (msi)
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- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Shopping Companion (exe)
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- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Smartphone market to grow 52% in 2008
- The smartphone market is expected to grow 52% in 2008 compared to 2007, to 190 mln units. That’s 15%, or $65 bln-worth, of the total 1.28 bln handsets expected to be sold 2008. In 2012, Gartner expects smartphone unit sales to reach over 700 mln of the total 1.8 bln...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- ZeeVee ZvBox Zv-100
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- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- Palm Treo Pro (unlocked)
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- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Suddenly, Android is hot again
- After months of silence, the double-whammy of new software and hardware has gotten everyone talking about Android again. Earlier this month Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch was wondering if anybody cared about Android any more. Now TC is practically gushing over the mobile platform. What happened? Two things:...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Can you trust kids with a Kindle?
- Can you trust kids with a Kindle?Can you trust kids with a Kindle?I agree with you for the most part. An electronic book or ereader would be good for looking up information to reference. The drawback I see is the price tag of the kindle, and if someone...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Keeping the brand - and verb - alive
- photoshop (v.) "to edit an image using a computer program," 1992, originally in ref. to Photoshop, a bitmap graphics editor trademarked and published by Adobe, released in 1990. --- Dictionary.com There aren't many brand names that can take on verb status but Photoshop, a pioneer in digital imagery manipulation,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead
- IBM maintained its server market share lead over HP as worldwide factory revenue was up 6.4 percent to $13.9 billion in the second quarter, but vendors saw "strong pricing pressure in the marketplace," according to research firm IDC. In it quarterly report on server sales, IDC found:...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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