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Asus Eee PC 1008HA
Reviews Asus has reinvented its iconic netbook in the shape of the slim, attractive Eee PC 1008HA. It's a bold experiment that largely works.
Tags: Battery, system tray, USB, Touchpad, ASUS, keyboard, VAT, data storage, Ethernet, LCD
Beware hidden costs in your IT organization
News In current economic climate, IT heads may do well to monitor often overlooked costs such as maintenance contracts, training and certification.
Tags: IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Training, Storage, Procurement, Hardware, software
S'pore facility delves into plastic electronics
News Japanese materials firm Nitto Denko sets up research site in Singapore; pumps US$6.6 million to develop integrated organic electronics with three partners.
Tags: R&D, Investments, Components, Electronics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, polymer, data storage, partnership, technique
Sony open sources digital effects software
News Sony Pictures Imageworks releases five digital image-manipulation software tools under open source licenses, and says more may follow.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Open source, Sony Pictures, Animation, Tool, computer, animation company, Digital media, computer graphics
Consider alternatives to RDBMS
Techguide Applications are far too complex to force into the inherent limits of the relational database management systems model. Justin James encourages developers to explore their options.
Tags: Databases, Database management, Software engineering/development, RDBMS, database management system, Tool, Storage, Developer, Justin James, Programming
Toshiba buys Fujitsu HDD business
News Japanese manufacturer buys Fujitsu's hard disk drive business to boost its market share and pave way into enterprise server and data storage markets.
Tags: Storage, Storage software, Servers, Electronics, Manufacturing, Storage, Sales, Fujitsu Laboratories, hard drive, Fujitsu Ltd.
US researchers claim vast data-density increase
News The density achievable with the technology could potentially enable the contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a coin, according to one of the researchers.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Photovoltaics, Storage, DVD, polymer, Semiconductor Manufacturing, University of Massachusetts, electronic media, photograph
Swedish antipiracy law: Traffic down, ISP rebels
News Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by almost half after an antipiracy law took effect, but a loophole could take the teeth out of the law.
Tags: Piracy, Web sites, Audio Book, Law, Antipiracy Law, European Union, IP, Netnod, Bahnhof, IP Address
Suddenly, infrastructure is cool again
News commentary Cloud computing would have happened anyway. But the recession has given IT a more pressing reason to consider making the switchover.
Tags: Innovation, Network infrastructure, Service level management, Web 2.0, Virtualization, Hardware, Computing, Storage, Cloud Computing, Jeff Bezos
Oracle and Intel jump on a cloud
News The enterprise software heavyweight and the chipmaking giant are teaming up to improve the efficiency, security, and standards-based technology of cloud computing.
Tags: Business applications, Security, Virtualization, Web services, Intel Corp., Database, Cloud Computing, Hypervisor, software, processor
Amazon offers automatic credit for S3 outage
News Ordinarily, customers would have to apply to get credit for an Amazon Web Services outage, but the online retailer is handling Sunday's outage automatically.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, SLA, Amazon.com Inc.
Dell speeds backup with disk-to-disk system
News The PowerVault DL2000 will simplify and accelerate data backup by offering disk storage and backup in one unit, Dell says.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Storage, Security, Backup, Dell PowerVault, Storage, software, Symantec Corp., tape library, Symantec Backup Exec
WD claims top spot for external drives
News Western Digital claims top spot for external drives expecting over 1.1 billion of sales for PCs, Macs and digital cameras by year-end.
Tags: Storage, Earning reports/forecasts, Western Digital Corp., Mobile, Apple Macintosh, Sales, phone, software, hard drive, data storage
Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will prevail?
News news analysis Web apps are getting richer and more widespread, but it is unclear which of several competing technologies will power them.
Tags: Web sites, Software, Programming languages, Protocols and platforms, Network standards/protocols, Web Browser, Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, intellectual property, Programming
IBM joins party in the clouds
News Big Blue's Global Business Services unveils several cloud computing initiatives, ranging from consulting and implementation services to a validation program.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, IBM Corp., Cloud, Storage, Cloud Computing, Consulting, business service, remote server, outsource
