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IT sizing error delays Boston commuters

IT sizing error delays Boston commutersMaybe there should be a backupI still remember my college days when the computerized cash registers at the department store where I worked went down every once in a while, bring sales to a halt, sometimes for an hour or more.RE: IT sizing error delays...

Tags: Processor Power, processing power, commuter, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Images: Harnessing PS3 power for Folding@home

PlayStation 3 users will soon be able to lend their consoles' processing power to a Stanford University research project focused on the nature of serious diseases.

Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Stanford University, processing power, Sony Playstation, console

Image galleries 2007-03-15

Bidding adieu to Pentium M

Bidding adieu to Pentium MMisspellingLikewise! I think you mean you're which is the contraction of you are. Your is the possessive, that I have seen misused for you're before, but this is the first time I have seen your're.because its not speedIts frequency, not speed. It tells...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, Intel Pentium, Intel Pentium M, processing power, chip, clock speed

Discussion threads 2005-12-22

Google touts size of its search index

Google touts size of its search indexincredible...this has been up for over 8 hours now and still no "index-envy" or "size doesn't matter" posts.. weird! where Is everyone?!Try Precision and RecallThough not precise, they are much better than colloquial words used to make claims and counter claims....

Tags: Google Inc., processing power, storage

Discussion threads 2005-09-27

Scale-up and scale-out

As I listen to server manufacturers these days the choice seems to come down to "scale-up" or "scale-out." The former meaning that you can get more processing power by adding more processors in the same server (symmetric multi-processing, or SMP). The latter technique increases processing...

Tags: serverS, SMP, HyperThreading

Blog posts 2005-09-23

Grid computing boosts hacker network

A worldwide hacker confederation is setting up a grid of processing power to crack e-commerce passwords. Wayne Rash tells you how to guard your computing power. Just before I start writing, I look at the colorful blocks and jagged lines of the SETI at Home screen saver that runs...

Tags: Password, Network, Processing Power, Grid Computing, Computing, Hacker Confederation, Wayne Rash, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, It service Management, Grid

News items 2002-03-11

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ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

IBM makes progress toward 'thinking' computing system

This is a great set of tools for exploring neural net connnectionismThe human brain is powered by large numbers of parallel processing neurons. This is really cool since it does emulate the structures in brains it should be able to do really deep research into how large connection systems...

Tags: IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Google Image Swirl: Looks neat, but useless

I agree - SomewhatAlthough I agree that Google's Image Swirl is basically useless, I would disagree with your prosition on Bing's Visual Search. Google's offering is mainly designed as an image discovery tool, by grouping pictures of similar content or features. While its presentation may be cool, I...

Tags: Google Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

AudioFinder 4.9.8 (Mac)

AudioFinder is the digital musician's workflow accelerator, sample management system, and music production hub. AudioFinder gathers all the most useful tools in one quick and intuitive application, enabling you to be more creative by handling all the time consuming tasks that slow down your music production. AudioFinder can build a...

Tags: Playback, Apple Macintosh, Tool, Iced Audio, AudioFinder, Productivity, Business Process Automation, Digital Music, It Operations, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-15

MailList King 9.02 (Windows)

MailList King brings all the power of a complete mailing list server to your PC, allowing you to easily create, manage and communicate with the people interested in your Web site, products or organization. MailList King integrates with all popular e-mail software or mail servers to retrieve mailing list messages...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mailing List, Xequte Software, MailList King

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Contenta-Converter Premium 4.8 (Mac)

Batch convert your photos. Optimize photos for internet, batch rename and organize in subfolders. Practical tool to prepare email attachments.Handles 50+ image formats (JPG, JPEG2000, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, WBMP, TARGA, PPM, PGM, PBM, XPM, ICO, CUT, G3, DDS, IFF, JNG, KOA, MNG, PCD, PCX, RAS, SGI, SVG, PS, EPS,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Photograph, Image, Jansoft

Software downloads 2009-11-12

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

Ricoh GXR system details and photos officially released

A day after details were leaked to the web, an official announcement and photos of the new Ricoh GXR system have been released. It's self-proclaimed as the "world's smallest and lightest digital camera," but its not the GXR's weight or size that's really...

Tags: Ricoh Corp., Photograph, Camera, Camera Body, CNET Asia, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-10

TMPGEnc KARMA..Plus 1.0.2.30 (Windows)

TMPGEnc KARMA..Plus makes it easy to take control of your ever-growing digital video library. Sort, search, classify, play, and even compare your digital video with easy-to-use tools and controls. TMPGEnc KARMA..Plus supports NVIDIA CUDA technology for filter processing, decoding and H.264/AVC file output. By separating different processes into multiple elements...

Tags: Digital Video, Microsoft Windows, Video, TMPG, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Apple Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Mac)

Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects that make up Mac OS X. Users...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Refinement, Snow Leopard, Grand Central Dispatch, 64-Bit, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-09

WDReportCom 1.5.1 (Windows)

WDReportCom is a solution for Microsoft Word reporting. It includes an ActiveX component and an executable file that can be used to develop your applications. Developers can save time and meet their users needs by integrating the report processing power of WDReportCom into their applications. Benefit: Use Microsoft Excel as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., LJZsoft, WDReportCom, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Business Intelligence, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Office Suites

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Dell Inspiron i545s-1476N

The $480 Inspiron 545s-1476 is the third Dell desktop we've reviewed with the company's current slim tower chassis, and we can't say our opinion has changed since the last time we saw it. We're still satisfied with its design, but we remain disappointed with the features Dell seems to have...

Tags: Notebooks, DVD, Consumer electronics, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., dual-layer DVD burner, DVD burner, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2009-11-06

U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06