Novel way to cool datacenters passes first test
A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of datacenter cooling.
It's an important area for datacenter operators, who are struggling with the escalating costs of cooling increasingly powerful server equipment. Some facilities have been unable to add new equipment because they have reached the limit of their power and cooling capacity.
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IBM develops multimedia search tool
IBM, working with researchers in Europe, claims to have developed a better way to search online for photos and videos than current methods used by Google and Yahoo.
The developers call their technology SAPIR, for Search in Audio-Visual Content Using Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval. It indexes and analyzes "low-level descriptors," or attributes such as color, layout, shape and sounds, in photos and videos. The technology then compares those descriptors to other existing photos to help identify what's in the picture.
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Apple fixes Flash snafu in Snow Leopard and 33 bugs in Leopard
Less than two weeks after Apple launched Snow Leopard, the company today issued the new operating system's first security update. In a separate upgrade, Apple patched 33 vulnerabilities in 2007's Leopard, and about half as many in the even older Tiger.
Today's updates were the third and fourth from Apple in the last two days. Wednesday, Apple delivered security fixes for the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as another upgrade for its QuickTime media player.
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Apple patches 10 iPhone bugs, 4 QuickTime flaws
Apple yesterday issued a pair of updates that patched 10 vulnerabilities in its iPhone software and four in its QuickTime player program.
One of the 10 flaws in the iPhone's software was related to a bug that Apple patched in a hurry last July, just a day after security researchers showed how hackers could hijack iPhones with a series of malicious text messages.
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Motorola eyes expanded app dev for Cliq phone
Motorola plans to expand software development possibilities for its newly announced Motoblur software, which puts social networking capabilities on the company's Cliq mobile phone. But the company expects that subsequent devices will be offered with more of a business application bent, a high-ranking Motorola executive said Thursday.
Motorola plans to open up APIs for Motoblur, said Sanjay Jha, Motorola's co-CEO and CEO for mobile devices, in an interview after a presentation at the GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco.
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Motorola eyes expanded app dev for Cliq phone
Motorola plans to expand software development possibilities for its newly announced Motoblur software, which puts social networking capabilities on the company's Cliq mobile phone. But the company expects that subsequent devices will be offered with more of a business application bent, a high-ranking Motorola executive said Thursday.
Motorola plans to open up APIs for Motoblur, said Sanjay Jha, Motorola's co-CEO and CEO for mobile devices, in an interview after a presentation at the GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco.
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Linux driver chief calls out Microsoft over code submission
After a kick in the pants from the leader of the Linux driver project, Microsoft has resumed work on its historic driver code submission to the Linux kernel and avoided having the code pulled from the open source operating system.
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Linux driver chief calls out Microsoft over code submission
After a kick in the pants from the leader of the Linux driver project, Microsoft has resumed work on its historic driver code submission to the Linux kernel and avoided having the code pulled from the open source operating system.
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Box.net opens up collaboration service to iPhone apps
Mobile devices may help you take your productivity act on the road. But the ability to edit documents, presentations, and other files is of limited use if you're unable to easily share and collaborate with colleagues.
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iPhone users complain of new software problems
A day after the latest iPhone software became available, some users are complaining about new problems with their phones like a shorter battery life and random shutdowns.
Apple on Wednesday introduced version 3.1 of the iPhone software in iTunes, where it became available for phone users to download.
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Android-based Motorola Cliq coming in Q4
Motorola on Thursday announced its first Android smartphone, which will ship in the fourth quarter with T-Mobile USA under the name Cliq.
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Dell reveals new servers and storage for small businesses
Dell rounded out a busy year so far with the launch of new servers and storage equipment tailored toward the needs of small to medium-size businesses.
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Microsoft funds effort for open source dialogue
Microsoft is donating $1 million in initial funding for a non-profit foundation launched Thursday with the goal of enabling exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities.
Called the CodePlex Foundation, the organization is intended to provide a forum where open source communities and the software development community can unite for the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects, according to a statement on the foundation's formation.
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