Microsoft tests out rival to AdSense

July 18, 2008
Microsoft is running a private pilot to allow smaller publishers to use contextual advertising from Microsoft. Publishers can sign up for the Read more…

Airport radar meltdown blamed on faulty NIC

July 18, 2008
A faulty network interface card (NIC) was blamed for a radar system meltdown last week at the Dublin Airport. Due to the unexplained system failures on displays showing codes identifying Read more…
Tags: Travel Chaos   Thales Atm   System Failures   Nics   Network Interface Card   Irish Aviation Authority   Dublin Airport  

Mozilla releases patches for Firefox

July 18, 2008
Mozilla has released patches for both version 2.0 and version 3.0 of the Firefox Web browser. The updates patches two security vulnerabilities that have been rated as “critical” by Read more…
Tags: mac os x   carpet bombing   CSS objects   Software Patches   Mozilla   Firefox  

Samsung, Sun joins forces to bring SSDs to servers

July 18, 2008
Samsung and Sun Microsystems announced on Tuesday that they have co-developed a new 8 Gbit single-level-cell (SLC) flash memory for use in solid-state drives (SSD). According to the companies, Read more…
Tags: Sun Microsystems   SSD   Solid State Drives   Samsung   Flash Memory   Flash Drives  

IBM, Sun both lay claim to developing first 1TB tape drive

July 18, 2008
Sun on Monday this week announced its StorageTek T10000B Fibre Channel-based tape drive. With a storage capacity of 1TB, it comes at twice Sun’s previous top capacity of just 500GB. Read more…
Tags: Tape Drive   Sun Microsystems   Ibm   1tb  

Microsoft announces record revenues of $60 billion

July 18, 2008
Microsoft has announced a 18 percent growth in revenues from fiscal 2007, earning a historic $60 billion for its fiscal year of 2008 that ended on June 30. Increased demand for Office, Read more…
Tags: Windows Vista   Xbox   Microsoft   Chris Liddell   earnings  

Is Facebook spying on you?; VMware hikes prices in EMEA and ANZ;

July 18, 2008
> Yoggie packs hardware firewall appliance into an ExpressCard. Article> Information on new AMD “many-cored” processor leaked. Read more…

Jupiter unveils faster WAN application accelerators

July 15, 2008
Jupiter has unveiled new WAN application accelerators which it says will deliver better performance than earlier models. As its name suggests, WAN application accelerators are designed to deliver Read more…
Tags: Jupiter   Wan Application   Optimizations   Network Performance   Accelerators  

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