As notebook shipments have begun to significantly outpace the sales of desktop computers, each new notebook platform launched by Intel becomes more important to the company. This Monday July 14 marks the launch of Intel?s Centrino 2 platform, previously known by the code-name Montevina. The launch comes weeks after Intel had planned due to a [...]

Intel has bad news for software developers. It’s been hinted at already, but now the company has stated explicitly: it’s not enough for software developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores. No, the future holds tens, hundreds, or thousands of cores, and developers are going to have to bite the bullet and write [...]

he Mac accounts for 7.94 percent of computers on the Internet, and Safari is the browser of choice for 6.31 percent of the same audience, so says marketshare.hitslink.com.This increases Mac users’ worldwide presence by nearly two percent from a year ago. In June 2007, 6.4 percent of the internet used a Mac, and 4.85 percent [...]

I?ve long followed and blogged about the prominence of Linux in supercomputing and the twice-annual Top500 Supercomputer List. In a relatively short time frame, the open source OS has shot to the top of the Top500 list thanks to its free availability, flexibility, stability, scalability and conduciveness for clustering. Over time, the tools and statistics [...]

Hewlett-Packard is bringing container virtualization to its Integrity server line.On July 2, HP will begin selling and supporting Parallels? Virtuozzo virtualization software within its Integrity line of servers that are built around Intel?s Itanium processor and include the company?s massive Superdome systems.While the HP Integrity line is mainly known to support the company?s Unix operating [...]

Here’s the legend: at a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC’s 640KB usable RAM limit: “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”The initial PC was based on the Intel 8088, which was a hybrid 8/16-bit processor ? thus the reason for the 640KB [...]

INTEL IS teaming up with Saudi Arabia?s King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to build a wireless mobile services R&D lab in the country.Based in Riyadh, the labs purpose will be to provide the Arab parts of the Middle East, Turkey and Africa with Wimax broadband networks as well as services for wireless [...]

Intel’s ecosystem of disaster-planning professionals includes emergency response teams, emergency operations centers, issue-prevention management teams and crisis management teams.

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The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into chip maker Intel.

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The commission said Intel offered rebates to South Korean computer makers if they agreed not to buy chips from Intel rival AMD.

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Articles in this issue include: - Enterprise grade remote access- Review: Centennial Software DeviceWall 4.6- Solving the keylogger conundrum- Interview with Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security- The role of log management in operationalizing PCI compliance- Windows security: how to act against common attack vectors- Taking ownership of the Trusted Platform Module chip on Intel [...]

Data encryption provider Utimaco has announced it will provide key and policy management for Intel’s hardware-based encryption technology, known as Danbury.
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