DOD Allows U.S. Military Personnel, Pentagon to Use Facebook

From DailyTech: The Pentagon has allowed U.S. military personnel to begin using Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other popular social networking services.

The new government-issued rules offer guidelines for "safe and effective use of internet-based capabilities," and includes...

AMD’s Sabine Platform Takes Nearly Final Shape

From X-bit Labs: The first Fusion platform by Advanced Micro Devices has taken nearly the final shape and some predictions can be made about notebooks powered by AMD Sabine platform. Based on the information from sources close to AMD, the Sabine will boast with a rather rich set of...

AMD Plans to Launch Five Six-Core Desktop Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Unlike its arch-rival Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices plans to launch a rather broad family of six-core central processing units (CPUs) for desktops, sources familiar with the company’s plans told X-bit labs. At present there are at least five code-named Thuban...

IBM issues layoff notices to 400-plus workers

From InfoWorld: IBM has issued layoff notices to more than 400 workers, according to the Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701 , an employee organization that has been the principal source of layoff information at the company.

The Alliance's online job cuts board is abuzz with news from...

LTE More Than Higher Speeds, Says Nokia Siemens

From PC World: Attention has been focused on the higher speeds that will be offered by next generation LTE (Long-Term Evolution) mobile networks, but improved latency will be equally important to users, according to Nokia Siemens.

Real-time applications sensitive to delays...

IBM rethinks industry-standard servers

From CNET News.com: IBM introduced on Tuesday a new class of industry-standard servers that it hopes will widen its market share lead and put rivals like Hewlett-Packard and Dell on defense.

Big Blue's new family of servers, dubbed the eX5 portfolio, features architecture tweaks...

Botnets cause surge in February spam

From CNET News.com: Spam now accounts for close to 90 percent of all e-mail worldwide due to a surge in February, according to Symantec.

Two botnets named Grum and Rustock helped push spam levels up 5.5 percent in February over the prior month, according to the security firm's...

AMD 890GX, NVIDIA Next-Generation ION Platforms Launch

From DailyTech: Today marks the official unveiling of a couple important new platforms in the technology world. The platforms come from rivals AMD and NVIDIA. AMD has made official its new AMD 890GX chipset that is aimed at digital entertainment fans and NVIDIA has pulled the wraps...

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