Simplifying multicore CPU programming. Software quality assurance provider Coverity has released a new tool that will allow application developers to write more secure code for multithreaded applications.
Storm made to feel small. The prodigious Srizbi botnet has continued to grow and now accounts for up to 50 percent of the spam being filtered by one security company.
It is rocket science. SGI and Intel are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the petaflop barrier next year and hit 10 petaflops by 2012. A petaflop is 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
But agree that saving power means more than just energy efficient switches. 3Com has claimed it leads the market in making its networking gear more energy efficient. The company based its claim on a report by US analyst firm In-Stat;
Holes exceed total for 8-year-old OS. Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far
Joins Windows, Linux and MacOS family. Developers who use C++ and Sun's OpenSolaris OS are to be offered a new tool. Intel said that Threading Building Blocks was aimed at reducing the amount of coding that C++ developers have to
Luxique's Chief Executive, Alex Brey, said: "The TV pictures from Burma are truly appalling and we, as a worldwide travel company, wanted to show our concern for the Burmese people in a practical way. So every time a client books
Borland has found a buyer for its development tools subsidiary CodeGear , which has been the brand behind products like Delphi and the JBuilder Java IDE for some time now. The new owner is Embarcadero , a California software house
At its JavaOne conference currently taking place in San Francisco, Sun is once again casting the spotlight on its JavaFX browser runtime environment. JavaFX is basically just our good old friend Java-VM, which Sun has pepped up a bit with
With IPv4 addresses in short supply, they could become increasingly interesting and marketable goods. The Regional Internet Registries (RIR), the guardians of IP address allocation, are viewing this with concern. If they officially permit transfers or sales in the future,
On 6 May, the McAfee Avert Labs blog reported a trojan that masquerades as an MP3 or MPG media file. Called Downloader-UA.h , it is distributed over peer-to peer (P2P) networks, and the payload is a crippled MP3 player plus
In-flight entertainment system specialist Panasonic Avionics has signed an agreement with satellite operator Intelsat to use the GlobalConnexSM broadband service for future internet services on board Aircraft. With eXconnect , beginning in 2009, Panasonic aims at marketing a global internet
NASA , Intel and SGI have announced in their " Space Act Agreement " plans to reach 10 petaflops. Although they do not expect their HPC "Pleiades" system to reach this target until 2012, they intend to have an intermediate
Also: Meet an 8 chip, 2U, 12 drive search darlingExclusive Sun Microsystems endured a lot of ribbing when it first popped out a data center in a shipping container. Now, however, it looks like all the majors are heading in
Online Tax Squabble Part DeuxTexas may soon follow in the footsteps of those clever New Yorkers, asking Amazon for some serious sales tax dollars. Or maybe not....
Canadian iPods and US power adapters get what's comingApple has agreed to give US and Canadian customers two separate settlement offers to make charges of faulty and misrepresented products go away....
Grosse Pointe, Surrey?Bad news for Tony Fadell, a Michiganite and inventor of the iPod. In an interview yesterday, Gordon Brown claimed the ubiquitous device in the name of Mother England....
