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Mozilla to end support for Firefox 2 (Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:08:07 -0800)
Stability and security releases for the browser will end next month, despite ongoing problems with Firefox 3 The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. ...
Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push (Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:25 -0800)
The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kick start the mobile-payment industry. ...
Greening the data center (Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:06:41 -0800)
Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...
Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer (Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:42:55 -0800)
Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop/s barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list. Cray's XT5 Jaguar supercomputer has narrowly missed displacing IBM's Roadrunner system as the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the results of the bi-annual 'Top500' supercomputing...
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 unleashed (Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:02:04 -0800)
The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB, which is said to be 10 times faster than USB 2.0, has been published by the USB Implementers Forum. Version 3.0 of the universal serial bus specification has been released. Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum,...
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