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Virtualization leader VMware is joining the Linux Foundation, which could prove to be a boon to both the virtualization and open-source hypervisor communities. VMware has had its share of problems with the open-source community, including charges that it violated open-source code standards. But VMware is now giving away its ESXi hypervisor for free and some believe VMware could open-source the hypervisor, despite statements to the contrary from VMware executives.
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Oil prices near $145 a barrel and high electricity bills mean electronics makers such as LG that develop green, energy-efficient products such as mobile devices, desktops and notebooks, and market them effectively to customers may get an edge in a gloomy global economy, firms say.
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ThinkPad maker Lenovo posted a 65 percent increase in first-quarter profits, but that was Lenovo's slowest growth in a year. Lenovo is dealing with not only a sluggish U.S. economy but also competition from HP, Dell and Acer.
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The hacker group behind the Coreflood Trojan has learned that patience pays, as it has stolen at least 463,582 user names and passwords while flying under the radar. At Black Hat, SecureWorks Director of Malware Research Joe Stewart discussed his research on the gang and how it has gone undetected.
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The impact of the DNS protocol flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky is much wider than previously thought, endangering the trust many of us take for granted. The DNS flaw went beyond cache poisoning to target FTP and Secure Sockets Layer certificates.
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Opengear's new uClinux-based console server lets enterprises get more use out of outdated rack-mounted Kernel-based Virtual Machine equipment.
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Xandros says it will move the Freespire Linux distribution that it acquired from Linspire to Debian's forthcoming Lenny release.
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The Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment project has designed a new version of GNOME that it says is compatible with the latest netbooks as well as with older computers.
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In order to develop its ATI graphics, AMD is backing both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's DirectX 11 APIs. The move means that AMD is looking for a way to differentiate its graphics from the Intel Larrabee initiative and Nvidia's CUDA programming language for its general-purpose GPUs.
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Intel's Larrabee processor is Intel's first multicore processor and first stand-alone graphics card. Larrabee is also a swipe at graphics chip makers Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, whose powerful graphics chips are starting to look like a threat to Silicon Valley's king of silicon chips. Intel Larrabee will have numerous x86 processor cores (Intel won't reveal how many processor cores) and support for OpenGL and DirectX, allowing it to run existing games and software requiring high-end graphics.
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Numonyx and Hynix, which both make NAND flash memory, sign a five-year joint development agreement to develop memory and storage technology for a range of mobile devices, such as cell phones, as well as develop new technology for solid state drives (SSDs). Intel spun off Numonyx earlier this year.
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The ClearCube Virtual Desktop Infrastructure suite is expanding to include a new blade chassis, additional thin-client PCs, support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor and an update to its Sentral management software. In building out its virtualization offerings, ClearCube is competing against the likes of HP and IBM when it comes to PC blades.
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The microkernel concept that was once theoretically cool but impractical may now be a more reasonable real-world solution. With Microsoft working on Windows 7 and reportedly Midori, have hardware performance improvements finally made the microkernel practical?
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Delta plans to offer complete wireless Internet service, including access to corporate and personal e-mail accounts, SMS texting and instant messaging. Delta officials say the Wi-Fi service, supplied by Aircell, will work with laptops, smart phones and other PDAs.
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AT&T Synaptic Hosting is the telephone carrier’s new brand of cloud computing infrastructure services and utility computing, which first will host the U.S. Olympic Committee Web site. The AT&T cloud initiative comes at the same time IBM, Amazon and others are building their own cloud infrastructures.
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Cisco's newly minted Catalyst 4900M can help network engineers navigate the transition to 10G by offering a mixture of fixed and swappable, card-based ports.
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The current crop of desktop virtualization products can solve thorny problems.
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Networking enhancements, a reduced attack surface and virtualization capabilities earn Windows Server 2008 eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice award.
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