Chris Preimesberger

Five of Japans largest semiconductor manufacturers apparently have reached an agreement to establish a huge joint-operation fab to build next-generation processors, the Japanese daily newspaper Yomiuri reported Friday. A fab (short for fabrication) is a factory for producing integrated circuits. This would become the first such joint venture for Japans biggest chip manufacturers and one […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday expanded the scope of its anti-phishing Internet software by announcing agreements with independent data providers Cyota Inc., Internet Identity, and MarkMonitor Inc., to supply round-the-clock information about confirmed and suspected phishing Web sites. Real-time information about illicit Web sites collected by these three companies—who all developed their software on Microsoft .Net platforms—will […]

One day after one of its biggest competitors, Macromedia Inc., announced its second-generation heavy-duty streaming media server, RealNetworks Inc. Wednesday unveiled its own new industrial-strength enterprise media server, the Helix Server Unlimited, for wired and wireless devices. This latest version of the Helix server enables RealNetworks enterprise customers the ability to deliver high-end 3rd Generation […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the largest high-performance computing deal in its 23-year history Tuesday with an AMD-powered, grid-based megasystem it will deliver for deployment next spring to the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The project ultimately will become Japans largest supercomputer, surpassing that nations Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, which only a year ago was clocked […]

For the first time, IBM swept the top three rankings and five of the top nine in the most recent listing of the worlds fastest supercomputers. The 26th semiannual Top 500 Supercomputer Sites listing was released Monday on the independent Top500.org Web site. Big Blues defending champion, the Department of Energys IBM BlueGene/L system, installed […]

Linux desktop software maker Xandros and Rome-based NoMachine, which specializes in Linux terminal server remote access and management software, Thursday announced they are teaming up to build new Linux thin-client platforms. A certified NoMachine NX Client will be included in the first German edition of Xandros Corp.s Desktop OS 3.1, which will debut Nov. 15 […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday announced its largest grid-computing sale to date—an agreement with high-performance computing service provider Virtual Compute Corp. to use more than 1 million hours of CPUs on the Sun Grid Compute Utility during the next several months. VCC client Paradigm Geotechnology, in turn, will use the Sun computing power to supplement its […]

Appligent, Inc. Wednesday introduced its APSplit Desktop Edition, a standalone desktop application for preparing PDFs to meet the document-size requirements imposed by courts and other government institutions on electronic filing submissions. APSplit DE is a drag-and-drop desktop application that enables users to deliver large PDF documents in compliance with an institutions sizing requirements. It is […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Monday was the first day since 1986 that the stock of Silicon Graphics Inc., better known as SGI, has not been traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its recent delisting is just the latest chapter of a long, painful story that analysts say is loaded with lessons for other companies. However, company […]

Zend Technologies Inc. Tuesday continued its strategic move into the enterprise market with the release of a new PHP development platform, Zend Studio 5, which includes enhanced Web services support. Zend Studio 5 is also the first IDE to provide full support for Zend Platform 2, the companys bread-and-butter PHP product that includes session clustering […]