Samsung, Microsoft in Talks to Speed up SSDs on Vista

Samsung isn't just pushing the envelope in storage capacity of SSDs (solid-state drives), it is also working with software makers to boost SSD performance on operating systems.

8/7/2008

AMD's 790GX served with secret sauce for overclocking

During this year’s Computex tradeshow, we first learned that AMD was preparing a new Southbridge chip with the goal to enable an improved overclocking experience on Phenom Black Edition processors. This new chip is now available as the SB750 model, which is offered as part of 790GX and 790FX motherboards.

8/7/2008

Google Pushing Software to Low-cost Linux PCs

With an eye for larger adoption of Linux, Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said on Tuesday.

8/6/2008

Google upgrades Search Appliance with bigger index, added enterprise features

Google Inc. on Wednesday announced a new version of its enterprise-oriented Google Search Appliance that the company said can index up to 10 million documents in a single box — up from 3 million previously — while also giving IT managers more control over the search results that end users see.

8/6/2008

Teleport for IPhone

Much like Mocha VNC, Teleport is a virtual network computing (VNC) client for the iPhone that allows you to see and control Macs and PCs on your network. While both programs do similar things, there are some big differences between the two.

8/5/2008

Apple's patch fails to fix DNS flaw, researchers claim

Apple Inc. issued patches for 17 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X yesterday, including one meant to fix a critical bug in the Internet's traffic cop, the Domain Name System (DNS).

8/4/2008

Microsoft offers glimpse of its new sphere computer

Microsoft Corp. showed off its new Sphere computer last week.
The machine, which was featured at the vendor's Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., is still a research prototype. It uses a touch-screen orb instead of a traditional flat-screen monitor.

8/4/2008

Mozilla Releases Alpha of Next Firefox

Mozilla Corp. has released the first preview of Firefox 3.1, the fast-track update that the open-source company has pegged with a late 2008 or early 2009 ship date.

8/3/2008

Apple Nixes Security Engineering Talk

Apple has pulled its security engineering team out of a planned public discussion on the company's security practices, which had been set for next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

8/3/2008

Microsoft issues call for more IE8 beta testers

As Microsoft Corp. readies another beta release of Internet Explorer (IE) 8, the company has made a call for more beta testers via a company blog.
On the IEBlog this week, Allison Burnett, a program manager at Microsoft, said the company is expanding the IE8 beta-testing program.

8/2/2008