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Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. The Texas Advanced Computing Center (Tacc) at the University of Texas will dedicate a Constellation System from Sun on 22... [14 Feb 2008]
Second Life tackles virtual nuisances
News Sun Microsystems Second Life creator Linden Lab admits it has been forced to increase security and change some of its policies to stamp out illegal and nuisance behaviour in the virtual world. Linden Lab's head of community, Robin Harper, told... [12 Feb 2008]
Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy
News Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said it will pay about $800m in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and will assume about $200m worth of options. [16 Jan 2008]
AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser
News Sun Microsystems bought rights to the Netscape server software. The Netscape web browser has long since been eclipsed by its Firefox offshoot but AOL has announced it's formally pulling the plug on its historic software. [02 Jan 2008]
Sun's McNealy: 'We're not working on iPhone killer'
News Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy said he was misquoted in a South Korean newspaper earlier this week as saying Sun and mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics are working on an iPhone-killer. Sun, which already provides a stripped-down... [12 Oct 2007]
Social networking driving server sales
News Social networking is pushing up server sales despite the increasing adoption of virtualisation technology, according to Sun Microsystems. But Richard Green, executive VP of software at Sun, said there is no shortage of demand for hardware because... [04 Oct 2007]
Experts call for data breach legislation
News Nigel Hopgood, head of security and compliance at Sun Microsystems UK, said: "I think the silicon.com campaign is fantastic and the general awareness of the issues surrounding data breach notifications needs to be raised. [14 Sep 2007]
Second Life steps up ID checks
News Sun Microsystems The IDV system is designed to stop people under the age of 18 accessing restricted areas which contain adult or inappropriate material. Second Life - the business evolution Click on the links below to see pictures of some of the... [30 Aug 2007]
Five virtual world security worries for business
News Sun Microsystems Companies need to think about security and risk management before they get too excited about virtual worlds, according to analyst group Gartner. The risks businesses face as a result of getting involved in virtual worlds can be... [09 Aug 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News In the 1980s, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell virtual reality products and whose patents were acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Lanier played host to a panel at Stanford University that included Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden... [02 Aug 2007]
Chips are down in Second Life
News Sun Microsystems Second Life has banned online gambling from its virtual world. Residents who take part in games that rely on chance to determine a winner, or which depend on the outcome of a real-life sporting event and provide a payout, will be... [31 Jul 2007]
Microsoft tactics akin to "patent terrorism" - Sun
News The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to an executive for Sun Microsystems. James Eagleton, systems product manager for Sun Microsystems, said: "What... [24 Jul 2007]
Virtual worlds? Get a life, say silicon.com readers
News Sun Microsystems Asked whether they'd ever visited a virtual world, more than half (58 per cent) of respondents to a silicon.com reader poll said they had never been tempted to find out what life as an orc is like. [19 Jun 2007]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News Cowley beat off competition from BT and Sun Microsystems. London is the world's top wi-fi city, eclipsing New York, according to research from RSA. In the past year wi-fi hotspots in the capital grew by 160 per cent to 7,130, overtaking New York's... [15 Jun 2007]
Second Life - outsourcing's next frontier?
News Sun Microsystems When PA Consulting wanted to build an extra wing for its offices, it hired the best man for the job. Unusually, perhaps, it turned out that the best man for the job was an enormous rabbit, and one which wanted to be paid in an... [12 Jun 2007]
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