Why Microsoft should fear Ubuntu's Cloud efforts

In the past Microsoft could show up late to a party and still win. That's becoming harder to do as it's forced to compete on so many fronts. Despite a vast developer army, Microsoft's efforts have been highly confusing and occasionally nonsensical. Microsoft needs developers to win in the cloud. [Read more...]

How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook

Run your Mac OSX on a Dell. [Read more...]

Ubuntu now has 'cloud computing inside'

Look up into the Clouds! [Read more...]

Cooler Master's Monstrous V10 CPU Cooler

Building on the reputation of the Cooler Master V8, the new V10 with hybrid Thermal Electric Cooler, or also known as peltier cooling, brings even more thermal dissipating power to your Intel Core i7 LGA1366 PC. [Read more...]

Scientists make advances on "nano" electronics

Two U.S. teams have developed new materials that may pave the way for ever smaller, faster and more powerful electronics as current semiconductor technology begins to reach the limits of miniaturization. [Read more...]

The firewall vs. the cloud

The hosted model makes financial sense. It's much cheaper to contract with a service like Yammer than to buy and install software inside a business. However, it's not realistic to think that the people inside businesses currently running their own e-mail servers will happily encourage sensitive and timely employee conversations to head outside the firewall to a hosted service. Saving money doesn't trump control. [Read more...]

Nehalem servers to anchor Intel cloud computing

New "Nehalem" servers will anchor Intel's renewed push into cloud computing, as the chipmaker focuses on mega data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers.

Intel's cloud-computing efforts this year will be centered on a new server that uses upcoming Nehalem technology, Intel said Tuesday in a teleconference on its cloud-computing strategy. Nehalem is Intel's new chip architecture currently used only in its Core i7 desktop processors. [Read more...]

SugarCRM open sources the cloud

SugarCRM is deployed on more than 55,000 servers worldwide and growing. Where are the servers? Those servers are in the cloud, they're not in local data centers. They're in all the cloud infrastructure providers from Amazon to Rackspace to British Telecom to IBM. They need applications, and SugarCRM is an application that runs basically on every cloud environment that is being built right now. [Read more...]

13 SDHC Memory Cards Reviewed

Most of the elite SDHC memory cards we've reviewed are “Class 6” rated, a label that promises high performance. However, we found significant performance differences among them. [Read more...]

JavaFX : A Powerful Mobile Platform

JavaFX combines the best capabilities of the Java platform with comprehensive, immersive media functionality into an intuitive and comprehensive, one-stop development environment. [Read more...]

Intel's 32nm Update: The Follow-on to Core i7 and More

And you thought Core i7 was fast, how about a 6-core, 32nm version due out early next year? It's not all high...

Seven billion dollars.

That’s the amount that Intel is going to spend in the US alone on bringing up its 32nm manufacturing process in 2009 and 2010. [Read more...]

Ubuntu desktop apparently scares Microsoft

Ubuntu must be giving Microsoft fits on the desktop. That's the only reason I can come up with for Microsoft's LinkedIn search for a new director of open-source strategy, with a focus on the desktop:

"The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft's global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors."

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Fusion-io : PCI Express-based Solid State Disk (SSD) drive

Fusion-io manufactures the ioDrive, a PCI Express-based Solid State Disk (SSD) drive. Fusion-io claims the ioDrive is capable of performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity parallel to hard disks — the ioDrive is available in 80GB, 160GB and 320GB capacities. That device is serving as the basis of two additional products, the ioSAN and the ioXtreme. [Read more...]

X Prize announces green-idea : Ultra Capacitor

"Capacitors recharge in seconds, survive thousands of recharge cycles, and provide high-efficiency electricity by using environmentally benign materials. But here's the challenge: capacitors are far more expensive (and) provide far less energy than common batteries," Le said in his team's contest pitch video on YouTube (below). "We invite the next generation of inventors and engineers to construct an energy storage device far more advanced, far more environmentally friendly, far more affordable than we have yet to see in our lifetime." [Read more...]

ACME Portable Folding Multiple Display

So, how about enjoying StarCraft on three display screens? This prototype foldable multi display from ACME Portable looks totally awesome. While it isn't exactly built for gaming use, it's actually for server use, who can stop IT Managers from enjoying their StarCraft game on these babies?

Defense Department sets up its own Defense Department sets up its own SourceForgeSourceForge

The dam holding back U.S. federal adoption of open source just burst with the introduction of the Defense Department's Forge.mil [Read more...]