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Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

News It says TraceMonkey will speed JavaScript apps dramatically, making browsing snappier and opening new horizons for Web applications.

Monday, August 25 2008 10:33 AM

Tags: Browser, Programming languages, Protocols and platforms, Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., 3D, Web Application, Mozilla Firefox, software, processor

Japanese researchers downplay super CPU effort

News Alliance aims to create software standard for multicore chips in devices, including mobile phones and car navigation systems.

Tuesday, September 29 2009 05:54 PM

Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Embedded System, CPU, Chip Company, API, processor, researcher

ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips

News ARM is preparing new enterprise partnerships as its Cortex-A9 processor goes fast and multicore, pitting it against Intel's x86 and IBM's PowerPC chips.

Thursday, September 17 2009 10:33 AM

Tags: Processors, ARM, Intel Corp., Chip, Dual-core, JIT, performance, processor, high-performance, Processors

Google spotlights data center inner workings

News Search colossus manages to demystify itself a little while also showing just how exotic its infrastructure really is.

Monday, June 02 2008 11:13 AM

Tags: Search, Operations, Google Inc., Machine, Server, Red Hat Global File System, software, processor, hard drive, co-founder

Microsoft to tweak virtualization licensing policies

News The software maker plans to announce some changes on Tuesday, CNET News has confirmed. It is another effort to adjust to a world in which software can move freely among both physical and virtual machines.

Sunday, August 17 2008 11:39 PM

Tags: Software licensing, Virtualization, Software, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., software company, VMware Inc., Server, server software, processor

Wind River launches embedded hypervisor

News Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip.

Friday, June 19 2009 10:52 AM

Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Hypervisor, operating system, Wind River Systems Inc., device manufacturer, processor, Virtualization, car, multi-core processor

Mathematica 7 arrives with built-in human genome

News The newest version of the software gets new data sets, image processing abilities, and built-in support for quad-core chips.

Thursday, November 20 2008 10:43 AM

Tags: Processors, Software, Genome, Image Processing, Wolfram Research, 3D, marketing research, digital image, processor, News.com

Apple's Snow Leopard due early 2009

News According to an Apple executive's presentation, the OS X update could debut at the beginning of next year, slightly earlier than expected.

Thursday, November 20 2008 10:20 AM

Tags: Mac OS, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, Conference, Apple OS, Macworld, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Adobe PDF, San Diego

Mac OS X 10.6 details leak out

News The new operating system, which Apple hopes to ship in "about a year", will bolster support for multicore processors and graphics chips, but focus on stability over flash.

Tuesday, June 10 2008 09:19 AM

Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, operating system, processor, Apple Safari, Internet

IBM data center gets deep energy retrofit

News Big Blue's "green innovation" data center in the United States uses technologies such as temperature sensors, and building designs aimed at cutting energy consumption.

Friday, September 18 2009 11:23 AM

Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Data Management, Green IT, IBM Corp., Storage, Business Process, Cloud computing, Server, server rack

Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power

News Snow Leopard features tech called Grand Central Dispatch to better tap into multicore chip power. Also: OpenCL for doing calculations on a graphics chip.

Tuesday, June 09 2009 10:44 AM

Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Apple Inc., Chip, Graphics, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, graphics chip, processor

Developers get boost for multicore apps

News Chip giant Intel unveils a suite of new tools that aims to help developers engage in parallel coding, for a future where every machine is multicore.

Thursday, August 21 2008 10:18 AM

Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Tool, Quad-core, Developer, 3D, Environment, software, processor

Gartner: Multicore chips leave software trailing

News The growth of multicore processors is too fast for software, which struggles to use the technology effectively, research firm says.

Thursday, January 29 2009 06:44 AM

Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Business applications, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Multi-core, Chip, Gartner Inc., operating system, Ferrari

Apple eyeing Nvidia's CUDA technology?

News CUDA makes it easier for developers to exploit Nvidia's graphics chips, and Apple might be getting ready to formally welcome that technology into Mac OS X.

Monday, June 09 2008 01:23 AM

Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., NVidia Corp., Chip, Graphics, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, graphics chip, software, processor