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Strength in Numbers: Taking the Right Angle on Grid Computing
To many people, grid computing remains an alien concept. Perhaps the most widely known example of this technology is the SETI@home project, established in 1999 as a global grid-computing effort to detect ...
Oscar ‘Screeners’ Already Being Pirated
December 23, 2005 11:50AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “The problem of piracy of digital screeners has been going on for a while and is a growing trend,” said Yankee Group analyst ...
Online Music Wars Take New Turn
“The manner in which the industry has reacted to technological change in the past seven years shows that the people running these companies clearly have their heads in the sand, and some ...
Australians Blocked from Kazaa P2P Client Downloads
Industry experts are watching the Kazaa case in Australia because it marks the first time that the major recording labels have gone on the attack against piracy outside of the United States. ...
Google-AOL Deal: What Would It Bring?
Although there has been concern voiced about the Google-AOL deal, some analysts have noted that it is very likely the partnership will, in fact, be forged and that changes for users will ...
Putting Open Source to the Test
Microsoft officials said they support open standards and open source but are disappointed that the state accepted Adobe Systems’ PDF product for office applications, yet rejected Microsoft’s OpenOffice XML, a perpetual, royalty-free ...
VoIP Services Enabling Video Calls
SightSpeed figures that as long as it can get people to try out its free product, they’ll become hooked on its superior technology and eventually trade up to a paid premium service. ...
Red Hat Readies for Government Scrutiny
Red Hat has submitted its upcoming release of Enterprise Linux for the Defense Department’s Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme, seeking a government imprimatur that could strengthen the company’s hold on the ...
Microsoft Writes a New Chapter with Online Book Search
October 28, 2005 10:35AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Microsoft and its partners are at pains to reassure publishers, printers, and authors that they will respect copyright laws. The MSN announcement comes ...
What’s Slowing Down Your PC?
October 27, 2005 7:30AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “Computer slowdown is caused by many factors, including malicious software running in the background and ‘heavy’ security solutions that drain system performance,” said ...