Stories about: Core Technology

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    Should eBay sell Skype back to its founders? 15/04/2009 06:54:00

    Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are trying to buy back their Internet phone company from eBay, the New York Times reported over the weekend. The pair are said to have approached potential investors for a multi-billion-dollar deal. Here's a summary of the situation:
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    Check Point overhauls its security software architecture 25/02/2009 08:20:00

    Check Point is in the midst of a major overhaul of its security software architecture so customers can pick and choose the applications they want and dedicate computing resources to each depending on the performance they want to guarantee.
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    Intel, Microsoft, HP sued for alleged patent infringement 16/01/2009 05:08:00

    The feature to quickly recover data in PCs and Windows is under attack. Data recovery firm Xpoint earlier this week sued IT giants including Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft for infringing on patents to quickly restore data in the event of corrupted hardware or software.
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    Security vendors leaving old-school malware detection behind 15/12/2008 08:28:00

    Step 1: Identify a computer virus specimen. Step 2: Create a "signature" to detect and eradicate the virus, and push the signature file out to a computer. Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2 again and again for new viruses and their variants.
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    Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software 25/09/2008 09:15:00

    Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.
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    Toshiba to launch Cell-based TV in 2009 30/08/2008 01:22:00

    Toshiba is planning to bring the powerful Cell processor into consumer electronics and launch a TV based on the chip in the second half of 2009, it said Friday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin.
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    IBM says it has 'no plans' to open-source DB2 database 17/06/2008 07:20:04

    IBM said Monday that it doesn't plan to open-source its DB2 database, despite a published report quoting a company executive in the U.K. saying that an open-source move might become necessary.
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    Opera proves Acid3 score with public build 31/03/2008 11:59:43

    Opera Software on Friday released a development build of its Opera browser to the public to prove that it has code that scores 100 out of a possible 100 on the Acid3 Web standards test.
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    Safari's engine, Opera browser nail Acid3 test 28/03/2008 08:37:51

    Developers responsible for Apple Inc.'s Safari browser engine and Opera Software's flagship browser raced to announce this week that in-development versions passed the new Acid3 Web test with flying colors.
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    HP unveils eight-socket, quad-core server 18/03/2008 10:29:38

    HP is releasing an eight-socket x86 server using quad-core AMD Opteron processors, which it says is ideal for large virtualization and consolidation projects that can take advantage of extra cores and greater processing power and memory.
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    Former Disney executive joins Microsoft as CIO 18/01/2008 07:52:08

    Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.
 
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