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08.10.2008 Windows XP Gets Reprieve, Yet Again
With Vista struggling, Microsoft has extended the period in which it will make XP available for PC makers' downgrade programs. Microsoft originally planned to stop distributing Windows XP media to large OEMs on Jan. 31, 2009, but this week said it would move the deadline to July 31 of next year. |
09.06.2008 IBM Computer Breaks Petaflop Processing Barrier
A supercomputer developed by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has become the first so-called petaflop computer, processing more than one thousand trillion calculations per second. |
31.01.2008 The LAN turns 30, but will it reach 40?
LAN technology has been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled than its past. Robert Whiteley, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. (says) the LAN will become obsolete, through a process he called de-perimeterization. "Firms are finding that they can skip cabling and adopt wireless networks. The next step is to give each machine a direct Internet connection, with appropriate security technology, skipping the LAN," he predicted. |
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