Infrastructure

ClearCube Technology plans to launch two PC blade servers, in a bid to compete with Hewlett-Packard Co. for customers in finance, insurance, hospitals and the military. Both blades will use Intel Corp. chips and will have enough power to run Microsoft Corp.'s pending Vista operating system, which has large processing requirements to support the translucent windows in its graphical interface.

Terror on the Internet hardly sounds like a book title to reassure public sector IT security organizations. But, ironically, it does. Written by security researcher Gabriel Weimann and published by the United States Institute of Peace, the book acknowledges that war is being waged on the Internet but argues that the greatest threats are beyond the scope of system administrators and IT staff.

An iMom, who can also be referred to as the family CMO (Chief Memory Officer), is a tech-savvy mother whose ranks are drawn from distinct generations, including Baby Boomers and GenX members. These mothers are the family decision makers when it comes to digital cameras and printers, because they are the ones who use them most.

Google Inc. may dominate the Internet search market today, but the battle for control of this crucial sector is only just getting started, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday. "We're three steps into a marathon," said Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's vice president of product strategy, in an interview at the CommuinicAsia exhibition in Singapore.

A new network processor chip could cut the cost of 10Gig Ethernet to as little as US$400 a port, according to semiconductor company Bay Microsystems. Bay

IBM Corp. this month unveiled hardware and software to help automate the management of power consumption in the data centre to improve power utilization and reduce energy costs, the company said.

Sierra Wireless expands HSDPA AirCard PC Card line New to the market is the AirCard 875 wireless wide area network card for HSDPA...

The virtualization phenomenon is getting too real for hardware server builders, as one Canadian research firm predicts server sales will fall by the end of next year.