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For decades, the world's supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments.

HP this afternoon revealed mixed results for its quarter ended in October. The company's net earnings climbed 14 percent year-over-year to $2.4 billion, but its revenue dropped by 8 percent to $30.8 billion in the same time frame.

Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.

Until recently, scientists at Brown University working on a map of the Mars terrain had a long wait ahead of them each time they downloaded new satellite data.

Researchers are closer to using tiny devices called semiconducting nanowires to create a new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips.

Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world.

What's the most wrongheaded conclusion anyone ever came to concerning computers? I covered three of the most legendary ones-"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home," "640K should be enough for anybody," and "I think there is a worldwide market for maybe five computers" in The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History .

A company known for wearable PCs comes out with its own supercomputer design. What does it have that IBM and HP doesn't? November 25, 2009 By : The recent Top500 supercomputer list showed that high-performance computing is pretty much an IBM and HP world.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server set a World Record on the SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 Standard Sales and Distribution Benchmark.

Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.

WHEN APPLE ANNOUNCED in 2005 that all of its future desktop and laptop computers would soon make the transition to sporting Intel CPUs, the Macolyte community was split.

For decades, the world's supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments.

November 20th, 2009 -Wondershare Software Co., Ltd, the world leading consuming software provider, announces a new product release----Wondershare Spyware Removal on its system utility official website .

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, helped by cost-cutting and better results from its technology services division.

November 17, 2009 - 12:20 P.M. Linux powers the fastest computers on the planet 136 comments Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their remarkable speeds.

Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: AMD Athlon Neo, DirectX 10, 11.6" HD Display [11/19/2009 09:18 AM] by Anton Shilov Lenovo Group, the manufacturer of the legendary ThinkPad-branded notebooks, is getting ready to unveil the first ever ThinkPad computer with a microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices.

Share + Nov 22, 2009 5:38 pm US/Eastern SAN FRANCISCO Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain - an effort that tests the limits of technology.

This story was updated to correct a previous assertion that Jaguar was the first x86-based system to be the world's fastest supercomputer.

AMD Scores Supercomputing Points Even while going through some tough times, AMD holds its own in the supercomputing world.

This week's Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., puts the spotlight on the highest of high-end computing systems.