Stories by: Bob Brown

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    Intel, CMU add muscle to wimpy processors 15/10/2009 08:12:00

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN). 
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    Father of fiber-optics snags share of Nobel Physics Prize 07/10/2009 00:39:00

    Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
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    OnLive video game service: "In a lot of ways, we've solved cloud computing" 24/09/2009 13:27:00

    Steve Perlman, CEO of a company called OnLive that's readying an on-demand video game service, cringes whenever Google's gmail or other high profile Web services conk out. After all, his company's bold plan is to offer streamed access to a slew of brand name video games via the cloud in such a way that users at their PCs and TVs get performance they're used to experiencing on consoles.
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    How to build a 100,000-port Ethernet switch 18/08/2009 14:08:00

    University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center networks massively scalable.
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    Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests 04/06/2009 07:12:00

    Side-by-side Windows displays might be the last thing you would expect to see taking center stage at Red Hat's booth at the recent Interop show in Las Vegas. But it makes sense when you consider they were part of a demo showcasing the company's pursuit of what it sees as a huge opportunity: the emerging virtual desktop market.
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    One way to build mobile-friendly apps for all devices 23/05/2009 04:20:00

    Adam Blum, CEO of startup Rhomobile, says 90% of the programs being written with his company's open source mobile application framework are by ISVs and the other 10% by enterprises, but over time he'd like to see those percentages reversed.
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    iPhones in the enterprise leaving IT at wit's end 22/05/2009 02:05:00

    Executives smitten with iPhones are forcing enterprise IT departments to come up with ways to support the mobile devices even though big security and management questions abound.
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    NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, fund cybersecurity research and more 15/05/2009 04:30:00

    The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies.
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    Apple yanks 'Baby Shaker' from App Store 24/04/2009 08:10:00

    Apple -- on the verge of celebrating its 1 billionth App Store download -- has pulled a controversial application called "Baby Shaker" from its virtual store shelves that generated public outrage.
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    Twitter attracting techie labs 14/04/2009 08:05:00

    As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and research operations using the popular microblogging service. While I've found a handful, I'm not impressed: For the most part they're just spitting out press releases or blog headlines.
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    MIT professor snags 'Nobel' of computer science 11/03/2009 12:02:00

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Barbara Liskov will receive the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.
 
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