SAN FRANCISCO--Apple wants Mac OS X to do a better job dealing with the new directions that Moore's Law has taken computer chips.
At its Apple Worldwide Developer Conference here, Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac OS engineering, shed light on technology called Grand Central Dispatch that's designed to make Mac OS X 10.6, called Snow Leopard, take better advantage of multicore processors and graphics processors.
SAN FRANCISCO--Apple wants Mac OS X to do a better job dealing with the new directions that Moore's Law has taken computer chips.
At its Apple Worldwide Developer Conference here, Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac OS engineering, shed light on technology called Grand Central Dispatch that's designed to make Mac OS X 10.6, called Snow Leopard, take better advantage of multicore processors and graphics processors.
SAN FRANCISCO--Apple wants Mac OS X to do a better job dealing with the new directions that Moore's Law has taken computer chips.
At its Apple Worldwide Developer Conference here, Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac OS engineering, shed light on technology called Grand Central Dispatch that's designed to make Mac OS X 10.6, called Snow Leopard, take better advantage of multicore processors and graphics processors.
Juniper Networks has announced the industry's first 100Gbps Ethernet router interface card.
The networking company unveiled the 100Gbps Ethernet interface on Monday. The card will be sold as part of Juniper's T1600 core router, which is a high-performance product aimed mostly at telecommunications providers, but also usable by cloud-infrastructure companies and others rolling out large-scale virtualization.
"[100Gbps Ethernet] has always been inevitable, it has just been a question of when now trends such as cloud computing, datacenter consolidation and virtualization are making the need for [100Gbps Ethernet] more acute and urgent than ever before," Opher Kahane, Juniper's general manager of high-end systems, said in a statement.
Juniper Networks has announced the industry's first 100Gbps Ethernet router interface card.
The networking company unveiled the 100Gbps Ethernet interface on Monday. The card will be sold as part of Juniper's T1600 core router, which is a high-performance product aimed mostly at telecommunications providers, but also usable by cloud-infrastructure companies and others rolling out large-scale virtualization.
"[100Gbps Ethernet] has always been inevitable, it has just been a question of when now trends such as cloud computing, datacenter consolidation and virtualization are making the need for [100Gbps Ethernet] more acute and urgent than ever before," Opher Kahane, Juniper's general manager of high-end systems, said in a statement.
Juniper Networks has announced the industry's first 100Gbps Ethernet router interface card.
The networking company unveiled the 100Gbps Ethernet interface on Monday. The card will be sold as part of Juniper's T1600 core router, which is a high-performance product aimed mostly at telecommunications providers, but also usable by cloud-infrastructure companies and others rolling out large-scale virtualization.
"[100Gbps Ethernet] has always been inevitable, it has just been a question of when now trends such as cloud computing, datacenter consolidation and virtualization are making the need for [100Gbps Ethernet] more acute and urgent than ever before," Opher Kahane, Juniper's general manager of high-end systems, said in a statement.
Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Web 2.0 sites are causing new strain for telcos, according to a Citrix Systems top exec.
Klaus Oestermann, group vice president, Citrix Systems, said such sites, which typically include social networking and blogging sites, tend to carry rich features which update the page's contents without requiring the user to refresh it.
These features make Web 2.0 "much more taxing" to a telco's IT backend infrastructure, requiring a continuous flow of information streamed, compared to plain "1.0" sites which "only require one response to one [server] request", Oestermann told ZDNet Asia in an interview.
Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Web 2.0 sites are causing new strain for telcos, according to a Citrix Systems top exec.
Klaus Oestermann, group vice president, Citrix Systems, said such sites, which typically include social networking and blogging sites, tend to carry rich features which update the page's contents without requiring the user to refresh it.
These features make Web 2.0 "much more taxing" to a telco's IT backend infrastructure, requiring a continuous flow of information streamed, compared to plain "1.0" sites which "only require one response to one [server] request", Oestermann told ZDNet Asia in an interview.
Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer offered an unwelcome economics lesson to the Obama administration this week: Higher taxes have consequences that Washington policy-makers may not especially like.
Ballmer said Wednesday that if Congress enacts President Obama's plans to impose higher corporate taxes, a sensible thing for Microsoft to do would be to move jobs offshore.
"It makes U.S. jobs more expensive," Ballmer said, according to Bloomberg News. "We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S."
NEW YORK--Verizon Wireless's claims that it will be offering the Palm Pre within six months are not accurate, says Sprint Nextel's CEO Dan Hesse.
"They need to check their facts," Hesse said in an interview at a press event here to launch the Palm Pre. "That just is not the case. Both Palm and Sprint have agreed not to discuss the length of the exclusivity deal. But I can tell you it's not six months."
Last week, Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Wireless was quoted by Reuters as saying that over the next six months consumers could expect to see devices "like the Palm Pre and a second-generation Storm" on its network.
Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux on Thursday, but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress.
"In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please don't download them," Google product managers Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg said in a blog post, evidently trying to use a little reverse psychology. "Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable and potentially crashing software."
VeriSign will administer encryption for the internet's Domain Name System, according to the organization that oversees the fundamental internet address system.
Icann said on Wednesday that VeriSign will sign the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) at the root zone of the internet. The announcement suggests a resolution to a longstanding political argument about who would have responsibility for such encryption.
The US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology are working with Icann and VeriSign on the initiative.
Commentary--Over the years, the question is Linux ready for the desktop has been raised time and time again, and countless articles have been written about the strengths and weaknesses of this operating system. While desktop Linux adoption has yet to go completely mainstream, recent indicators show that a major change is underfoot.
Commentary--Over the years, the question is Linux ready for the desktop has been raised time and time again, and countless articles have been written about the strengths and weaknesses of this operating system. While desktop Linux adoption has yet to go completely mainstream, recent indicators show that a major change is underfoot.
Commentary--Over the years, the question is Linux ready for the desktop has been raised time and time again, and countless articles have been written about the strengths and weaknesses of this operating system. While desktop Linux adoption has yet to go completely mainstream, recent indicators show that a major change is underfoot.
While others are making predictions for what will happen at Apple's upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference, which kicks off on June 8, I'm going to start out with two things which are almost certain not to happen.
Firstly, Steve Jobs won't take the stage: hopes that the CEO might make a big return were dashed when the name of Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller was allocated to the keynote slot. Statements coming from Cupertino earlier this year say Jobs has been closely involved in all kinds of decisions at the company while on sick leave, including the design of the iPhone 3.0, but I think it unlikely he might return a month early.
While others are making predictions for what will happen at Apple's upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference, which kicks off on June 8, I'm going to start out with two things which are almost certain not to happen.
Firstly, Steve Jobs won't take the stage: hopes that the CEO might make a big return were dashed when the name of Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller was allocated to the keynote slot. Statements coming from Cupertino earlier this year say Jobs has been closely involved in all kinds of decisions at the company while on sick leave, including the design of the iPhone 3.0, but I think it unlikely he might return a month early.
Credit: Concept design from Freescale Semiconductor
Taiwan's Computex conference has been quietly generating some interesting news on the future of netbooks and laptops.
Credit: Concept design from Freescale Semiconductor
Taiwan's Computex conference has been quietly generating some interesting news on the future of netbooks and laptops.
More professionals are turning to social networks in hopes of ultimately securing jobs, but such sites lack what recruitment agencies can provide, say observers.
Leong, an IT professional in the financial industry told ZDNet Asia in an e-mail, social networks are an effective means of providing opportunities for "casual jobs" such as survey respondents, freelance photographers and part-time work, as well as the much-publicized "The Best Job in the World."
PC World, the UK's biggest computing retailer, is to stop selling Linux netbooks in its stores.
Jeremy Fennell, PC World's category director, said in a statement on Monday that all the netbooks in PC World's stores will feature Microsoft Windows. He also said the chain will no longer stock netbooks with screens measuring less than 10 inches.
"Despite initial hype that netbooks would move more users onto the Linux platform, Microsoft has emerged as the preferred operating system because Windows makes it easier to share content and provides customers with a simpler, more familiar computing experience on the move," Fennell said.
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is looking into an issue in which users of Internet Explorer 6 are forced into having Bing as their default search engine.
"We are aware of the issue with Bing on machines running IE6 and are investigating a solution," Microsoft said in a statement. "This issue is not impacting IE7 and IE8 users."
Although it is only affecting its older browser, many people still use IE6 and Microsoft has faced a lot of regulatory scrutiny over how default search preferences are set and changed within Internet Explorer. A recent Forrester Research study showed that 60 percent of businesses are still using IE6.
LOS ANGELES--It may be an off-year in the video game console, but you wouldn't know it by the lines outside the Galen Center at the University of Southern California, where Microsoft is having its annual E3 press conference.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he wants to change the rules of software and help traditional media find a new business model, but the web needs a performance boost first.
In a conversation at Google's I/O developer event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Brin pointed out how software gets twice as slow every 18 months an effect he named 'Page's Law', after his partner Larry Page and in an ironic reversal of Moore's Law. Brin committed Google to bucking this trend: "I want to break this law. I want to make software increasingly fast," he told an audience of reporters.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he wants to change the rules of software and help traditional media find a new business model, but the web needs a performance boost first.
In a conversation at Google's I/O developer event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Brin pointed out how software gets twice as slow every 18 months an effect he named 'Page's Law', after his partner Larry Page and in an ironic reversal of Moore's Law. Brin committed Google to bucking this trend: "I want to break this law. I want to make software increasingly fast," he told an audience of reporters.
Hackers based in Turkey penetrated two US army web servers and redirected traffic from those websites to other pages, including one with anti-American and anti-Israeli messages, according to a report in InformationWeek.
The hackers, who go by the group name 'm0sted', breached a server at the army's McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma on 26 January and a server at the US Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Center in Winchester, Virginia, on 19 September, 2007, the report said.
