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Hot issue for green IT
Comment For example, a CPU can run reasonably happily with a surface temperature of around 60 degrees centigrade. IBM has come up with a different approach, with a water-cooled radiator that can be retro-fitted to computer racks and blade chassis. [14 Nov 2007]
Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor
News Microsoft Surface in depth From painting to ordering drinks, Microsoft plans to change the way we interact with technology with Surface Virtualisation is a broad term for technology that lets one computer act as many, while hypervisors refer... [13 Nov 2007]
Microsoft still tinkering with Surface
News Although Microsoft is still getting plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" when it demos its Surface computer, the company is finding the task of bringing the tabletop computer to market a little rougher than it anticipated. [09 Nov 2007]
Arctic tech gets sub-zero test
News The Surface Penetrating Radar for Ice Thickness Establishment - or Sprite - will also be tested as part of the weekend trials. The onboard sledge computer uses a Linux-based system and consumes only two watts of electricity. [26 Oct 2007]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News Microsoft has the feature in its high-end tabletop computer, Surface, while Apple has introduced a more mainstream adaptation of the technology in the iPhone and iPod Touch The conference table, the office whiteboard and even the bedroom mirror are... [19 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo Attached to the sledge is a smaller, yellow vessel which measures the ice and snow thickness and is called the Sprite - or surface penetrating radar for ice thickness establishment. The main section of the vessel - called the 'sledge' - holds an... [17 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft Surface in depth
Photo Micrsoft is also working with IGT - which makes computer arcade games - on Surface's launch in the US later this year. This table-like device is actually a demonstration of Microsoft's Surface technology, which the company had been showing off in... [02 Oct 2007]
Software Company Meets Oil Exploration and Production Challenges With 64-Bit Solution
White Paper As global oil supplies decrease, researchers are creating more-complex computer models of what lies beneath the earth's surface. Roxar, based in Stavanger, Norway, provides real-time measurement instruments, 3-D modeling software, and associated... [30 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet In a recent silicon.com column, Quocirca's Dennis Szubert, said: "Just like an iceberg with 90 per cent of its bulk below the surface, the massive impact virtualisation will have on IT has been largely hidden and is only now becoming widely... [04 Jun 2007]
Photos: Microsoft's touchscreen tabletop PC
Photo Customers will be able to touch the computer's surface to order food and drinks. Mark Bolger, director of marketing for Microsoft's surface-computing effort, shows off the company's new 'Milan' at a briefing in San Francisco. [30 May 2007]
Microsoft unveils touchscreen-PC-cum-tabletop
News However, while consumers will be able to touch it later this year, most won't be able to buy a surface computer any time soon. Microsoft is taking the wraps off 'Milan' - a secret project five years in the making and the first in what the company... [30 May 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Just like an iceberg with 90 per cent of its bulk below the surface, the massive impact virtualisation will have on IT has been largely hidden and is only now becoming widely appreciated. The fact that so many areas of IT are affected by... [15 May 2007]
Microsoft signs patent pact with Samsung
News The notion that customers and businesses need Microsoft's legal go-ahead to run Linux has been controversial for some time, with the issue rising to the surface last November after Microsoft reached an accord with Linux vendor Novell. [19 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: The meaning of innovation
Comment This may on the surface sound blasphemous but you don't have to work in tech to have a happy life. For one, he talks about the twin issues of the rise of offshoring and the fall in computer science students/grads. [02 Mar 2007]
Virtual moon and Mars flights come to Google
News Want to take a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars? Recently they met to discuss the many challenging computer science problems facing both organisations and possible joint efforts that could help address them. [19 Dec 2006]
