My Way News - IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes

My Way News - IBM Adds Video-Game Chips to Mainframes: "The powerful 'Cell' microprocessor that fuels Sony Corp. (SNE) (SNE)'s PlayStation 3 video game console will be available in IBM mainframe computers so those high-performance machines can run complex online games and virtual worlds."

IBM, MySQL team up on database software - Yahoo! News

IBM, MySQL team up on database software - Yahoo! News: "International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) plans to start selling products from smaller rival MySQL AB, a developer of an open-source database that is used to help run Web sites, including Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) and YouTube."

: "Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures."

Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

Researchers Break Internet Speed Records: "Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps"

Speak of The Devil by Richard Hawke

Finished Sunday April 22. Good PI tale. Boston PI gets involved in shooting at a parade.

"I brewed up some coffee. I would've as soon flipped upon my skull and poured it directly onto my brain, but the hinges were too rusty."

Flight Plan - DayJet - Ed Iacobucci - Complexity Science

Flight Plan - DayJet - Ed Iacobucci - Complexity Science: "Iacobucci is an expert at building operating systems--he did it for decades at IBM and Citrix. Because of that, he has zero interest in the loosey-goosey world of Web 2.0. He sees the next great opportunities in business as a series of operating systems designed to model activities in the real world. DayJet looks to be the first, but he has no doubt there will be others, and that new companies, and even new industries, will appear overnight as computers tease answers out of previously intractable problems."

My Way News - PC to Leapfrog Standalone Game Consoles

My Way News - PC to Leapfrog Standalone Game Consoles: "he technology behind these improved visuals, called DirectX 10, is the result of a collaboration among video game developers, graphics card makers and Microsoft. For years, they have been working to streamline and standardize the software used by Windows-based PCs to display graphics.

The latest improvements, many believe, far surpass even the very best of what the consoles are capable of. Case in point: the upcoming PC shooter 'Crysis,' where players take the role of a battle-savvy soldier who has to uncover the secrets behind an asteroid that has smashed into Earth.

Beams of light glimmer through a jungle overgrown with swaying palm trees, and the thick underbrush gets more detailed with a closer look. Gaze into the distance and you can see aquamarine waves crashing on a white sand beach. Zoom in on a soldier to see an emotive face with stubble, freckles and other subtle individual details."

Dell Still Losing Market Share to Hewlett and Others, Data Shows - New York Times

Dell Still Losing Market Share to Hewlett and Others, Data Shows - New York Times: "Dell’s shipments worldwide fell 6.9 percent from the first quarter of 2006, pushing its share of the market to 15.2 percent from 18.2 percent last year, according to IDC. "

Intel gives up on super-charged 'Gesher' | The Register

Intel gives up on super-charged 'Gesher' | The Register: "Intel's server chip chief, Pat Gelsinger, told us that the company abandoned Gesher 'for a variety of internal and external reasons' and added that the company prefers 'non-volatile code-names'.

Gesher shall be known from here on out as 'Sandy Bridge'"

AT&T's IPTV service growing | News.blog | CNET News.com

AT&T's IPTV service growing | News.blog | CNET News.com: "-verse TV is an Internet Protocol-based television service intended as an alternative to standard cable. "

Hitachi woos mid-sized Americans with new blade | The Register

Hitachi woos mid-sized Americans with new blade | The Register: "a 6U high chassis that holds 10 two-socket servers. Should those sockets be filled with Intel's quad-core Xeon chip, then you're talking bout 80 cores per chassis and 560 cores per standard 42U rack."

Technology Review: TR10: Peering into Video's Future

Technology Review: TR10: Peering into Video's Future: "TV shows, YouTube clips, animations, and other video applications already account for more than 60 percent of Internet traffic, says CacheLogic, a Cambridge, England, company that sells media delivery systems to content owners and Internet service providers (ISPs). 'I imagine that within two years it will be 98 percent,' adds Hui Zhang, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. And that will mean slower downloads for everyone."

Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners

Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners: "Over time, evolution favored scavenging humans who could run faster to the site of a kill and eventually allowed us to evolve into persistence hunters. "

VROOM!

VROOM!: "These results show that ESX Server not only achieves higher throughput than VMware Server for a single VMmark tile (6 workload VMs) but also exhibits better scalability when a second tile is added. "

VMware Releases Virtualization Benchmark Software - Yahoo! News

VMware Releases Virtualization Benchmark Software - Yahoo! News: "VMware has released the first public beta of a VM benchmarking tool VMark. Until now, VMware has refused to allow anyone, via its licensing terms, to benchmark its products. But here's the first concrete evidence that it's being forced by market pressure into changing its policy."

Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion - New York Times

Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion - New York Times: "Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year."

Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Guardian Unlimited: Technology: "The results give Google a market share of 70.6%, followed by Yahoo (18.7%), Microsoft (8.9%) and Ask (1.7%). The numbers may not be exactly right, but who doesn't think they are in the right ball-park?"

Datamonitor ComputerWire - Data Warehouse Appliances: a Profitable Venture?

Datamonitor ComputerWire - Data Warehouse Appliances: a Profitable Venture?: "Data warehouse appliance vendors have several market forces driving them to be profitable in the future, including the advent of low-cost commodity hardware and open source software and an attractive value proposition of doing EDW faster and cheaper than before. "

Another Month And More Google Growth

Another Month And More Google Growth: "Google accounted for 64 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending March 31, 2007. That's an increase from the year-ago figure of 58.33 percent, according to Hitwise market research. "

Microsoft delays key virtualization pieces - Yahoo! News

Microsoft delays key virtualization pieces - Yahoo! News: "Microsoft Corp.'s plan to catch up to competitors in providing virtualization has hit a snag. The company said this week it has pushed back the release of both a beta of virtualization technology for Windows Server and a service pack to its existing virtualization software.
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The public beta of Windows Server virtualization, code-named Viridian, will now ship in the second half of 2007, not in the first half, "

Microsoft researcher obsessed with white trash data centers | The Register

Microsoft researcher obsessed with white trash data centers | The Register: "Microsoft would fit this ideal customer profile since it's in the midst of building out huge data centers to keep up with Google, Yahoo! and the like. And, as a Windows Live engineer focused on managing very large scale data center, Hamilton must be on the front lines of Microsoft's efforts."

Google plans international developers day - Yahoo! News

Google plans international developers day - Yahoo! News: "international software developers day "

JA-SIG Central Authentication Service (CAS)

JA-SIG Central Authentication Service (CAS): "Welcome to the home of the JA-SIG Central Authentication Service. CAS provides enterprise single sign on service:
An open and well-documented protocol
An open-source Java server component
A library of clients for Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Apache, uPortal, and others
Integrates with uPortal, BlueSocket, TikiWiki, Mule, Liferay, Moodle and others
Community documentation and implementation support
An extensive community of adopters "

Self-Help's Slimy 'Secret' - washingtonpost.com

Self-Help's Slimy 'Secret' - washingtonpost.com

he book is not nearly so equivocal. "Imperfect thoughts are the cause of humanity's ills," Byrne asserts, in a stunning sentence that had me pondering how to perfect my thoughts, pronto.

Poverty? "The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts."

Illness? "You cannot 'catch' anything unless you think you can. . . . You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness." So . . . got any sick friends who need a shoulder to cry on? Tell 'em to bug off! As for Elizabeth Edwards -- how selfish is she? By making people think about her cancer, she's basically giving them the disease.

What at first glance looks like the world according to Disney -- wish on a star, and it will all come true -- turns out to be a pretty ugly little secret indeed.

Microsoft is Dead

Microsoft is Dead: "Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway."

Microsoft to boldly go where Apple is already going…eventually | 43 Folders

Microsoft to boldly go where Apple is already going…eventually | 43 Folders: "Microsoft to boldly go where Apple is already going…eventually"

Intel Inks New Blueprints for UMPCs, Plans on Better Battery Life - Gizmodo

Intel Inks New Blueprints for UMPCs, Plans on Better Battery Life - Gizmodo: "hey're building an entirely new UMPC platform. The platform will be dubbed McCaslin and will be based around chip named Stealey. The CPU will support the Premium Vista OS, "

How I Work: Bill Gates - Apr. 7, 2006

How I Work: Bill Gates - Apr. 7, 2006: "I get about 100 e-mails a day. We apply filtering to keep it to that level—e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP, and all the other partner companies, and anyone I know. "

Microsoft Mulling Portable Data Centers? - Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft Mulling Portable Data Centers? - Data Center Knowledge: "If Microsoft were to pursue a modular data center initiative, it would likely be good news for one of the hardware providers rolling out portable products"

New XenEnterprise boosts virtual Windows | CNET News.com

New XenEnterprise boosts virtual Windows CNET News.com: "Virtualization is a hot idea, and Palo Alto, Calif.-based XenSource faces plenty of other competition, too. Among others: Microsoft's forthcoming Viridian software, due to ship in 2008, from open-source versions of Xen built into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, newcomer KVM, Virtual Iron, and SWsoft and its OpenVZ project. "

Working for The Man | Tux Deluxe

Working for The Man Tux Deluxe: "People doing offline email are simply working in an extreme case of a network disconnect, a rather large network latency if you will. "

Official: EMI to Release Music DRM-Free - Gizmodo

Official: EMI to Release Music DRM-Free - Gizmodo: "EMI said it was going to allow all retailers to sell the DRM-free tunes, and they will be available in AAC, WMA and MP3 formats. ITunes will offer the EMI DRM-free catalog as premium downloads, with twice the sound quality of currently available AACs, and they'll cost $1.29 per song rather than the $.99 per song from the EMI catalog that will still be sold with DRM. –"