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ALSO NOTED: Next version of IE will be IE8; 20 percent of French iPhones sold unlocked;
> Next version of IE will be IE8. Article> Samsung to reveal world’s first 1.3-inch hard drive Read more…
ALSO NOTED: Dell prepping 30" display with HDMI and DisplayPort; T-Mobile Sidekick Slide has sliding problems;
> IBM’s BlueGene/L continues to dominate the supercomputer charts. Article> Read more…
ALSO NOTED: Palm Treo 800w revealed?; OLPC XO sees production delays;
> Verizon pays out as part of a misleading data plan settlement. Read more…
ALSO NOTED: iTunes DRM-free tracks drop to $0.99, as expected; HTC to ship 50,000 Google Phones this year?;
> iTunes DRM-free tracks drop to $0.99, as expected. Article> Linus Torvalds’ own family uses Windows. Read more…
ALSO NOTED: HP leaks investigation goes back to Fiorina; Sprint offers new mobile security service; and much more…
> HP leaks investigation goes back to Fiorina. Article
> Sprint offers new mobile security service. Article
> Security tech not doing its part, some say. Article
> Turn graphics cards into a supercomputer. …
Read more…SGI adds x86 servers, ready to exit bankruptcy?
Silicon Graphics, still struggling to survive after going bankrupt in May, now is launching a line of x86 servers. Its high-end servers use Intel Itanium chips, which haven’t been very popular in the marketplace. The new servers, called Altix XE, are intended for Linux clustering and use Intel’s latest dual-core Xeon chips–the 5100 “Woodcrest” series. SGI also announced a new midrange blade server, the Altix 450. (Email …
Read more…ALSO NOTED: Chutes & ladders: CEO, CFO ousted at Novell; Hardware, not hackers, causes Oracle downtime; and much more…
> Chutes & ladders: CEO, CFO ousted at Novell. Article
> Hardware, not hackers, causes Oracle downtime. Article
> Common sense is key to managing corporate IM. …
Read more…ALSO NOTED: ADIC buys data management company for $63M; SGI unveils supercomputer-in-a-blade; and much more…
> ADIC buys data management company for $63 million. Article
> Silicon Graphics unveils supercomputer-in-a-blade. Article
> Emulex’s iSCSI, FCIP storage routers target big biz. Article
> Cisco raises services standards for its partners. …
Read more…ALSO NOTED: Foundry’s new switch has 10 GigE, PoE; Emulex debuts 4 Gbps storage switches; and much more…
> Foundry’s new switch has 10 GigE, PoE. Article
> Emulex debuts 4 Gbps storage switches. Article
> Uncertainty remains for WiMax growth. Article
> How to use Java for service architectures. …
Read more…Supercomputing the focus at conference
A high-performance computing technical conference keynoted by Bill Gates? The times they are a-changin’. Gates talk tomorrow morning is on “The Changing Role of IT in the Sciences.” Meanwhile, several HPC specialists are using the show to launch a variety of new products using interconnect and clustering technology.
For more on HPC in the real world:
– read this TechWeb …