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- Virtual Machine Benchmarks
- A press release crossed my desk on September 6, 2007 from Virtual Iron concerning some very strong benchmark results. Here's a segment of their release.Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, today announced its support for the latest Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Processors, virtual machine, Dan Kusnetzky, Virtual Iron, Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300, virtualization performance, virtualization, quad-core
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
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- Touchscreen Asus Eee PC available for UK preorder
- Look! There it is, on preorder in the UK: Asus' all-in-one Eee PC is available for £399.99, and seems sluggish to boot: 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive and 15-inch screen running Windows XP. Combined with the...
- Tags: Touch Screen, ASUS, PC, U.K., Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows XP, Memory, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Components, Semiconductors, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?
- Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Peeling Back the Microsoft Oslo 'Onion'
- At the core of the Oslo onion: modeling language and repository by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- A few financial home truths
- Does it take the world's worst financial crisis since the South Sea Bubble to drive home perennial truths that have always been at the core of successful businesses? Generate cash by delivering products that help your customers generate cash. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Revenue, Software-as-a-service, Billing, Financial, Home Truth, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- MobileTechRoundup show #150, More netbook talk
- James, Kevin, and I were quite happy to record MobileTechRoundup show #150 and celebrate 3 years of podcasting about mobile tech. Kevin continues to tease me with the MSI Wind and now I am even closer to switching from my Fujitsu U810 to the Wind thanks to Dynamism who sent...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Dual-core, Lenovo Group Ltd., Kevin, WiMAX, Podcasts, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- MySpace launches ad platform for small businesses
- MySpace on Monday will unveil a targeted ad platform called MyAds, a beta designed to enable smaller advertisers to use its HyperTargeting technology. HyperTargeting is the MySpace platform used by its larger advertisers. With MyAds, MySpace is trying to tap into smaller advertisers that can be used...
- Tags: Advertisement, Small Business, MySpace, Advertiser, MyAds, HyperTargeting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
- Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284). Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Nehalem, Server Processor, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro
- Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook ProAnd, reportedly, Apple wants to get further into bed with them?Using nVidia Chipsets instead of Intel?I thought Apple uses more quality partsThat's the point iTards throw out every time to justify Macs' insanely high price.I see Dell offering ATI discreet cardson some of their...
- Tags: Notebooks, NVidia Corp., NVIDIA GPU, Macs ARE, Apple Inc., GPU, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed
- Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixedRE: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixedInstalled this on one 10.5.5 and three 10.4.11 systems and experienced no problems yet.I see that you missed several other fixes:Finder CVE-ID: CVE-2008-3643 ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X Patch Day, Mac OS X patch, Finder, Apple Inc., security flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Acer Aspire 5735-4624
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.If you set out to find the largest laptop for the smallest price, your quarry would be Acer Aspire 5735-4624, a 15.6-inch laptop that...
- Tags: Notebooks, Acer Inc., laptop computer, Aspire 5735
- Product reviews 2008-10-09
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
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