Intel, Google Doubt ARM and Atom Have Chances in Servers

From X-bit Labs: Power efficiency of relatively simplistic microprocessor cores, such as Intel Atom or ARM-based chips is well known and many believe that such central processing units (CPUs) can find their home in data center servers, which are supposed to become "green", in the...

OCZ Launches High-End Serial ATA-600 Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, one of the leading suppliers of solid-state drives (SSDs), has announced a new series of SSDs with extreme performance and Serial ATA-600 interface. The new drives are based on the recently announced SandForce SF-2200 SSD controller and also...

Verizon to offer cloud-based unified communications

From InfoWorld: Verizon is getting set to offer its customers unified communications services that can include presence information, instant messaging, videoconferencing, and fixed-mobile call handoffs through a Cisco Systems-based cloud infrastructure.

The carrier announced on...

Google Patches 19 Chrome Bugs Before Hacking Contest Begins

From PC World: Google on Monday patched 19 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying nine researchers $14,000 in bug bounties for reporting the flaws.

As it did last year, Google beefed up the security of its browser a week before the kickoff of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest held at...

Seagate ships Window XP-friendly 3TB hard drive

From CNET News.com: Back in June 2010, Seagate shipped the first 3TB hard drive, the Barracuda XT, which was only available in external storage options, such as an external hard drive or the BlackArmor NAS servers. Today the company announced the first standalone version of the same...

Google blames software update for lost Gmail data

From CNET News.com: Google said today a storage software update was responsible for causing some Gmail users to lose access to their e-mail data and said full functionality would be restored soon.

Some Gmail users complained yesterday of suddenly and mysteriously losing e-mails...

Sneaky Trojan Gets Some Back Door Action in Apple's OS X

From DailyTech: Security researchers at Sophos Labs have discovered a naughty new trojan that's in the process of beta testing attack capabilities against the growing population of Mac users.

The trojan exploits open back doors in OS X to gain a good deal of access to the system....

Intel Launches Serial ATA-600 Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Monday unveiled a new lineup of solid-state drives (SSDs) designed for consumers. The new drives are designed to offer leading edge, but not extreme performance and capacities. The new SSDs are Intel's first drives that use Serial ATA-600 interface...

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