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Always-on Internet connectivity is keeping malware concerns alive and well. We examine whether antivirus software is up to the task, or whether it's a security solution of the past.

Microsoft celebrated its 20th year in Taiwan by agreeing to open a joint cloud computing center with the island's economics ministry.

Man, it's great talking to folks who are actually taking a chance on new ways of doing things instead of just speculating about doing it.

Like the rest of the IT industry, Hewlett-Packard was apparently expecting Cisco Systems and EMC to announce their Acadia joint venture and Vblock virtualized data center infrastructure on Wednesday.

Ipswitch File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions, today introduces MOVEit DMZ Hosted Services to provide a Software as a Service )-based managed file transfer solution.

VOIS, Inc., http://www.vois.com today announced IceWEB , Inc., www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, has acquired a strategic interest in VOIS, Inc.

CERN's head of IT today unveiled the upgraded grid that will support the Large Hadron Collider when the titanic particle-punisher finally kicks back into life.

They shouldn't be popping the champagne corks at Microsoft over the news that Windows 7 sales are skyrocketing.

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture announced at VordelWorld, its annual user conference in Dublin, Ireland, the release of the Vordel Cloud Service Broker.

Mobile phone software maker Sybase Inc is stepping up the pace of its mobile computing business in China as the country's 3G industry has started to blossom, a senior company executive said.

Two weeks after changing its name from Movidia to Movidius , the Irish mobile video processing technology provider today announced that it has added two senior executives to its management team.

IceWEB, Inc. , www.IceWEB.com , a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that the Company has entered into a Standard Procurement Agreement with ExxonMobil Global Services Company, an operating division of ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded international oil and gas company.

"Nortel's decision to provide access to its communication enabled business solutions over Amazon EC2 is yet another indicator that cloud computing is the future," said Sheila McGee-Smith, president and principal analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics.

A computer scientist from the University of Houston and a doctor of sleep medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have teamed up to create a new, less invasive method of diagnosing sleep apnea.

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing customers are getting some options as well.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.

Cisco Systems Inc. is forecasting revenue growth for the first time in a year, offering further evidence that orders are rising again after passing what CEO John Chambers called a "tipping point" in the downturn this summer.

Red Hat expanded its virtualization product portfolio this week with the launch of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform.

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:20 AM PST Although Microsoft leaders have spent years promoting tablet computers with only marginal success, excitement around the form factor is finally building, thanks to technology advancements, a Microsoft executive said.