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Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Big System Behavior at Small System Prices: Solaris OS Across Multiple Hardware Architectures Supports Commercial Grade High Performance Open Source Middleware

Object Computing, Inc. OCI is a software engineering firm, specializing in distributed systems using object-oriented OO technologies. OCI faced the challenge of developing increasingly complex mission critical middleware products for its demanding client base at an affordable price. The multiple platform capabilities of Sun Solaris Operating System help OCI provide...

Tags: Operating System, High-performance, Hardware Architecture, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

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Helpdesks and productivity

Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...

Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statement

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statementDoes that make him...?Just wondering if that makes him the majority shareholder now? Or could that be his goal, to make sure he retains control over Dell as a rule because he may be considering stepping aside as CEO to pursue something...

Tags: Mortgages, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, believer

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost

Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...

Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-02

AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System

If you consider this upper midrange $3,220 AVADirect's Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System representative of the value and build quality available from this small custom builder, we can report that we were mostly happy with this PC, even if we found it loud and its gaming performance a bit...

Tags: Games, AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System

Product reviews 2008-07-02

What to do with your first generation iPhone (updated)

What to do with your first generation iPhone updatedLOL..How about NEVER buying Apple productsPlease, spare me here. Apple is trying to steal from their customers here. The real solution is to buy a Windows Mobile device and have access to the entire eco-system of fine Windows Mobile software. Mobile IE...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Digital music, Apple iPhone, first-generation, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Dell strives to make it easier to be green with FlexAddress

In the scheme of green things, Dell's PowerEdge M-Series blades could be described as emerald. Now, the company is trying to make it easier for data center managers to opt for them, with a new patent-pending tool called Dell FlexAddress. Glenn Keels, director, global relationship marketing...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Blade, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Linux-based cell phone drops July 4

The Openmoko Neo Freerunner, a Linux-based cell phone that "will help enable ubiquitous computing in the 21st century," will be on sale starting July 4, with shipping to begin July 7. According to company specs, the phone utilizes GNU/Linux and comes with core software for dialing, SMS...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Linux, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-02

So about that Microsoft licensing

Anyone else licensed Microsoft software lately? I've been trying to avoid it. We already have some "Open Academic" licenses in place for the high school computer lab software (Office 2007) and for some Vista testing. Since we added "Software Assurance" we've been able to install Office 2008...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computer, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel

Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...

Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel

If you compare the capital cost of a Wintel server and desktop architecture using Dell gear with 22" screens to that of a redundant SPARC/Sun Ray system with 24" screens, the Sun system comes in about $200,000 cheaper for 1,000 users. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Desktop, Wintel, Dell Computer Corp., Staffing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Difference, Sun Ray, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Alligator Data Guard (exe)

Alligator Data Guard is a tool for protecting your confidential information, using AES algorithm with 256-bit key and Haval 256-bit Hash Message Authentication Code HMAC to simultaneously verify the data integrity and the authenticity for better security. You can encrypt all your data (file, folder, disk). It is also possible...

Tags: Password, Disk, Data, Dexterous Software

Software downloads 2008-07-02

COM Cleaner (exe)

This utility alleviates COM Port lock-up issues caused by FTDI chips and other utilities. FTDI chips are used in hardware devices to enable serial COM port communications through a USB connection to the PC. The FTDI drivers fail to release the COM ports when the device is removed from the...

Tags: COM Port, PC, COM, Ki-Den, FTDI, FTDI Chip, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-02

VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one

VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long oneA few points..."...as well as a price point that is absolutely unbeatable — free with the Windows Server 2008 OS..."I expect Neely Kroes will have something to say about this."VMware is great, but you need Microsoft to make...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, virtualization, operating system, Hyper-V, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows

Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsWindows.So do you have to run a full version of Windows and then on top of that run Hyper V and then on top of that run your guests? Or can Hyper V be installed bare metal?RE: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsIt...

Tags: Operating systems, Storage management, cloud computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one

Microsoft's Hyper-V--that long awaited virtualization effort from Redmond--is off and running and the analysis on it falls into three generic buckets: Hyper-V is spin; it's a real virtualization player; and Microsoft is going to crush VMware or be crushed by the incumbent. While those of us in...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Dan Kusnetzky, Paula Rooney, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Analyst: Microsoft 'tone deaf' about SOA

Analyst: Microsoft 'tone deaf' about SOADifferent perspective...The callout on the article reads:"Microsoft defines SOA as integration, not broader Enterprise Architecture"A rewording might be "Microsoft applies SO to integration architecture, rather than to enterprise architecture."The conventional wisdom seems to be that the *only* useful place to apply SO principles is at...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Analyst: Microsoft 'tone deaf' about SOA

Microsoft defines SOA as integration, not broader Enterprise Architecture by Joe McKendrick

Tags: SOA, Microsoft Corp., Ron Schmelzer, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-07-01