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Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?

I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...

Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

iZone Internet Turbo 6.0.32 R3 (Mac)

When your web browser requests a Web Page, the iZone Internet Accelerator software redirects that request to the iZone Compression & Acceleration Servers. They take the respective Web Page content, compress it and send it back down to the iZone's Client software which decompresses it and sends it to the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, GIF, Web Page, iZone Telecom

Software downloads 2009-07-20

MS Patch Tuesday: 9 bulletins, 6 rated critical

Microsoft today released six bulletins with fixes for at least nine documented security vulnerabilities in a range of products that put users at risk of malicious hacker attacks. At least two of the vulnerabilities are currently being attacked in the wild so it's imperative that Windows users...

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-14

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Acceleration 101

Getting applications to work properly over a Wide Area Network WAN is a complex task, and it is not likely to get easier any time soon. Trends such as data center consolidation, the advent of Web 2.0 applications, and the move to web-based application delivery have only served to increase...

Tags: Web, F5 Networks Inc., Web-based Application, WANs, Web Technology, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Data Centers, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-08-01

Patrick Brady dissects Android

Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...

Tags: Google Inc., Library, Hardware, Patrick Brady, Android, Bionic, Surfaces, Audio Flinger, Dalvik, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-04

What is the rate of Mac OS X Leopard adoption?

Back at the Macworld Expo in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that some 20 percent of the installed base was running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. But do we have any sense of the current adoption rate for Leopard? Of course, Apple has the best statistics...

Tags: Developer, Security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, Apple Inc., Leopard, Tiger, Atomic Bird, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Microsoft delivers 12 patches to plug Office; 7 for Excel flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday delivered several patches to fix critical vulnerabilities in Office including a well-publicized Excel flaw. In the first bulletin (MS08-014), Microsoft addressed "several privately reported and publicly reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

How can iPhone render pictures better than desktop computers?

How can iPhone render pictures better than desktop computers?wrong observationI checked the original image of the author's head shot zoomed in by 170% in IE7 and Opera 9. Opera renders it much better than IE7. But here is the thing: Even IE7 renders it better than the image depicted as...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, computer, desktop, desktop computer, image, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Opera Software ASA

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Silverlight...coming soon to Linux

Silverlight...coming soon to LinuxWell, Novell asked.That gave Novell an advantage in the competition to see which version of Linux Microsoft would support. Novell also had some potential IP Court cases that could have been expensive. (Not forgetting a case that was excluded from the agreement.)Also, Novell needed the...

Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Mono, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-04

Silverlight...coming soon to Linux

Miguel de Icaza recently said he would bring support for Microsofts new Silverlight architecture to Linux by the end of the year. Silverlight, formerly called WPFe, is the new Microsoft technology that brings a subset of WPF, the .NET 3.0 interface development framework originally designed for Vista and that uses...

Tags: Web Technology, Programming, Open Source, Microsoft, General

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Make XP look like Vista!

Make XP look like Vista!Considering the fact it's a shameless rip off...of Macintosh OS X, how could they have gone wrong? I'm just amazed it took them this long to put the OS X GUI on top of XP. Can you imagine how crappy Windows would look, if not for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Make XP, 9x

Discussion threads 2006-11-24

Rush: Koders benefits from Google attention

An estimated 20-25% of a developers time is spent looking for answers to problems others have already encountered and perhaps solved. Thats the time Darren Rush, CEO and co-founder of Koders.com, is trying to help you save. In this exclusive interview, Darren shares his insights on code searching, open source...

Tags: Development tools, SEARCH, benefit, Koders, Google Code Search, Google Inc., Google Code, open source

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Exploit code released for Nvidia flaw

Exploit code released for Nvidia flawNot on my systemI use ATI over Nvidia cards, being an avid Linux user since 1999 I have solved most problems over the years.]:)Exploit code released for Nvidia flawROTFLMAO!! One question for linux users... Got Root? LOL!! This shows what an inferior...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, NVidia Corp., Linux, proprietary driver, flaw, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

AOL Video

Following in the footsteps of online movie vets CinemaNow and Movielink (as well as upstarts Guba.com and Amazon Unbox), AOL Video now offers a selection of A-list Hollywood movies for viewing on a computer and on many portable devices. Yet another content choice for Windows users, AOL...

Tags: video, America Online Inc., AOL Video

Product reviews 2006-09-28

Does Dell have a future in gaming?

Michael Dell sees computer gaming becoming a $4 billion per year industry by 2010, but does Dell have a future in computer gaming?It's clear that Dell is in the process of re-engineering. Earlier this year the Cost cutting measures have gone all the way up along the supply chainacquisition...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-11

Java Browser Edition: New name, wrong direction

Java Browser Edition: New name, wrong directionJava rethinkHere's an idea for Ethan Nicholas and his co-geniuses at Sun -- drop Java altogether. Just clean it off the universal hard drive, throw up your hands and tell everyone how sorry you are. The sigh of relief that rebounds around...

Tags: Programming languages, Web browsers, rich Internet application, startup time, Java, applet, Web browser

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

Catching photons coming from the moon

In "Shooting the moon," the San Diego Union-Tribune describes how and why physicists from UCSD are using lasers to send light pulses in direction of an array of reflectors installed on our moon in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. One of the goals of these experiments is to...

Tags: moon, laser

Blog posts 2006-07-14

JavaOne: Java SE to support Visual Basic

Graham Hamilton, VP and Fellow in the Java platform team at Sun Microsystems, talked about the future of Java SE in today's Sun general Technical session. In the same session Bill Shannon talked about Java EE 5, but I'll save that for another article.Graham: Here are the dates for the...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2006-05-16