Patrick Thibodeau - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Patrick Thibodeau

Article | 14/03/2008 Gates: Tablet PCs will replace textbooks, other predictions

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today outlined a future of computing akin to a Whole Earth Catalog for technology. The computing systems of the future w...

Article | 13/03/2008 IBM's Building 25, designed to foster creativity, burns down

In 1957, IBM built a complex in San Jose, California different from the grimy industrial age factories and offices then closing in East Coast cities. ...

Article | 3/03/2008 Management, technology short-circuit DHS's 'virtual fence'

A US government plan to build a "virtual fence" along the border of Mexico and Canada, using radar, satellites, sensors and communication links to rap...

Article | 18/02/2008 HP builds blade system for memory intensive apps

Hewlett-Packard is beefing up its Integrity BladeSystems with a new model released last week that's intended to handle memory and CPU intensive applic...

Article | 4/02/2008 No 'tipping point' yet in PC alternatives, Intel says

Intel has released survey data it has gathered in an effort to find out what PC alternatives are winning the hearts and minds of its customers. The sh...

Article | 31/01/2008 True story: I sold my mainframe on eBay

An IBM zSeries mainframe that Palm Beach Community College bought for about a half-million dollars in 2005 was sold this month on eBay for US$40,000.

Article | 25/01/2008 Supercomputer travels back in time to predict climate future

To try to assess global warming's impact on the environment and see if the world faces an abrupt climate change, Zhengyu Liu, director of the Center f...

Article | 21/12/2007 Advocate fears privacy woes from Google-DoubleClick

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it won't try to block Google's planned acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick, or se...

Article | 14/12/2007 NYSE places buy on Linux, hold on Unix

The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system t...

Article | 13/12/2007 Iranian computing center pulls Opteron photos from Web site

The Iranian computing research center that says it built a supercomputer with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors has removed from its Web site...

Article | 6/12/2007 Sun readies its first server virtualisation offering

Sun Microsystems next month plans to release the first commercial product in its xVM line of virtualisation software: a server management console call...

Article | 4/12/2007 Supercomputers bulk up on power while losing price pounds

The trade show floor at the SC07 supercomputing conference in Reno, Nevada, last month had a futuristic, film noir feel, with low lights, large glowin...

Article | 30/11/2007 New technologies mean changes in data centers, Gartner says

Automation may continue to reduce the ranks of data center workers, but unified communications technology will make it easier for IT staffers to stay ...

Article | 29/11/2007 Windows, Linux grow while Unix stays flat (but undefeated)

Windows and Linux operating systems are getting an ever-growing share of data center environments, as inexpensive x86 servers take over jobs once the ...

Article | 16/11/2007 Microsoft to simplify parallel-computing development

The importance of high-performance computing was starkly revealed this week by some numbers released by IDC: One in four of all microprocessors shippe...