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Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo Charles Babbage was widely considered to be lacking managerial skills to get his machine built. Here's how the machine works: The columns are numbered from 1 to N. His intent was to create an automated computing machine but was never able to turn...

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Google targets business with Postini-based security app

News With an arsenal of search, web hosted apps and the advertising-supported "money-making machine.Google is going to kill Microsoft," Courtot predicted. Google has announced a re-branded web security for Enterprise based on the Postini technology it...

Tags: postini, google

[12 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Maliouta said: "Since people are more likely to uninstall beta software, we strongly recommend uninstalling IE8 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Windows XP SP3, to eliminate any deployment issues, and installing IE8 Beta 1 after XP SP3 is on your...

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

MCA Error Recovery: HP-UX Feature for Recovering From Machine Check Aborts

whitepaper Intel Itanium-based servers support an advanced architecture that allows the system to contain, correct, and signal machine check errors. To further enhance the superior reliability of HP Integrity servers, the HP-UX MCA Error Recovery feature adds...

Tags: processors

[11 May 2008]

Implement Model-Driven Development to Increase the Business Value of Your IT System: Discover the Advantages of Using Modeling Tools From IBM Rational Software

whitepaper In MDD, the paper introduces the additional criteria that a model must be machine-readable. Machine-readability of models is a prerequisite for being able to generate artifacts. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is a style of software development...

Tags: programming languages

[11 May 2008]

Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter

whitepaper It is now almost common-place for corporate IT divisions to replace en masse the single-purpose 1U machine hosting one operating system with a 4U machine hosting 20 independent operating systems. With enterprise-class virtualization software...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Hosting Webcast Series: Windows Server Virtualization

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast explains the virtualization solution - how Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager can be leveraged by service providers.

Tags: monitoring systems, providers, service providers, machine

[11 May 2008]

Clustering Siebel Analytics Platform 7.8.5.1

whitepaper The goal of this paper is to explain all different steps mandatory to success Siebel Analytics 7.8.5.1 Clustering on IBM AIX 5.3 server (IBM p520 machine). This paper will also provide a guide through installation steps to help to understand all...

Tags: aix

[11 May 2008]

Data Center High Availability Clusters Design Guide

whitepaper Clusters define a collection of servers that operate as if they were a single machine. This paper describes how to design and deploy High Availability (HA) clusters to provide uninterrupted access to data, even if a server loses network or storage...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment At the bottom end, we've been used to hosts that just provide a raw machine and some basic system software. Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn't hurt to know what it is.

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill

Comment Now Microsoft prints the code in rather small type, and insists that it be stuck on the machine. That could be done over the internet, and the machine was certainly connected. I thought of this phrase recently when my Windows XP machine died.

Tags: licensing, piracy, software

[07 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News Cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are set to rise by more than a third in the next four years, analyst Berg Insight predicts, driven by rollouts of vehicle telematics. Wireless from A to Z

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

Credit crunch failing to hold tech back

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech trade body Intellect, forecast...

Tags: growth, globalisation, intellect, credit crunch

[02 May 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above" that amount, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[02 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Except the PC manufacturers who sell the machine with one OS and have to support and provide drivers for a different OS. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The brothers were commissioned to build the machine by the Ministry of Supply to make a small and inexpensive analogue computer for commercial use. A Roentgen IV X-ray machine made by Watsons and Sons from the 1950s.

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[01 May 2008]

From Business Need to Business Mashups in 3 Simple Steps

whitepaper Keeping your business running like a well-oiled machine can be a herculean task. Serena Business Mashups make it simple to coordinate the activities of different people and systems. In three simple steps you can go from business idea to Business...

Tags: business management, activities, task, machine

[30 Apr 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo The reincarnated machine is currently being exhibited in the Computer History Museum in California. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive

News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking has said.

Tags: microsoft, google, yahoo

[29 Apr 2008]

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