SGI offers hosted supercomputing service
SGI is rolling out what it believes is the first hosted supercomputing service on the market.
Called Cyclone, the service is designed specifically for technical computing applications, said Geoffrey Noer, senior director of product marketing at SGI.
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Do iPad costs give Apple room to cut prices?
The iPad runs Apple between $229 and $346 in materials and manufacturing costs, giving the company plenty of room to cut prices, a research analyst said today.
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Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
Tuesday's security updates from Microsoft have crippled Windows XP PCs with the notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), users have reported on the company's support forum.
Complaints began early yesterday, and gained momentum throughout the day.
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Intel to show off apps for netbooks, mobile devices
Intel will show off several applications designed for netbooks and mobile devices at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, where the chip maker plans to push a software development program designed to populate its AppUp Center application store with applications.
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IBM announces massive NAS array for the cloud
IBM announced an enterprise-class network attached storage (NAS) array today that is capable of scaling to 14 petabytes under a single name space.
The array, called SONAS (Scale Out Network Attached Storage), is targeted at mid- and large-size enterprises. The rack-sized array is built in part on hardware and software developed for IBM's supercomputing systems.
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Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts
One day after its launch, privacy concerns have been raised about Google's new Gmail-based social-networking tool, Buzz.
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Macworld Expo 2010: Does it matter without Apple?
Attending a Macworld Expo without Apple may seem like going to a rock concert to see the opening acts, but despite lacking the rock star presence, the show will go on nonetheless -- with the main show starting today at San Francisco's Moscone Center. (Tutorial sessions began Tuesday.)
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Macworld Expo 2010: Does it matter without Apple?
Attending a Macworld Expo without Apple may seem like going to a rock concert to see the opening acts, but despite lacking the rock star presence, the show will go on nonetheless -- with the main show starting today at San Francisco's Moscone Center. (Tutorial sessions began Tuesday.)
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Apache Beehive project retired
Beehive, an Apache Software Foundation open source project providing a Java programming آ model, has been retired due to inactivity, the foundation said on Wednesday.
Based on the former BEA Weblogic Workshop development tool runtime, Beehive was built on J2EE and the Struts Java Web framework; it used annotations to reduce coding.
[ InfoWorld's Paul Krill reported on Oracle's BEA roadmap for BEA, which classified Beehive as being in maintenance mode. ]
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Sprint revenue, loss, and user base all shrink in Q4
Sprint Nextel narrowed its losses and slowed, but didn't stop, the decline in its subscriber ranks in the fourth quarter of last year, the company reported Wednesday.
The company lost $980 million, or $0.34 per share, an improvement over a loss of more than $1.6 billion in 2008's fourth quarter. That was despite its revenue declining to $7.8 billion from $8.4 billion a year earlier. Revenue was also down for the full year 2009, as Sprint posted an annual loss of $2.4 billion, or $0.84 per share.
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Vexed techie gets peace at last from SAP and Oracle
Texas network services provider Michael Pulk has made tech behemoths SAP and Oracle bend to his will with nothing more than a phone, paper and a lot of persistence.
For months, loud alarms on a numbers of servers used by former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow had been driving Pulk bananas as he worked on his own machines, which are located at the same data center in Bryan, Texas.
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Oracle buys Convergin for telecom tech
Oracle announced Wednesday it plans to purchase Israeli startup Convergin, which makes software that lets telcos deliver services across multiple networks and platforms.
Terms were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close in the first half of this year.
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MuleSoft launches cloud-based Tomcat Web app server
MuleSoft this week is launching Cloudcat, which makes the Apache Tomcat Web application server available as a cloud-based service.
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