Microsoft Launches New Server Software

Microsoft Corp. launched a new version of its server operating system with great fanfare Wednesday, but analysts said Windows Server 2008 is an incremental update rather than a giant leap forward.

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With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate.

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Cloud management dominates the theme for Landscape 1.4 with new features that allow you to manage your private Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as easily as you manage your instances on Amazon EC2.

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He added that because of the way this software interfaces with the various markets and exchanges, the bank has warned it could be used to "manipulate markets in unfair ways." The FBI in New York said on Tuesday that measures had been taken to prevent code being sent from the serv …

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.

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It's long been known that Google builds its own web servers, enabling it to design the servers for peak performance and energy efficiency. At today's Google Data Center Energy Summit, the company put one of its custom servers on display.

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A server error at an online poker room folded one player´s cards during a hand with $200,000 as prize money.

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Ubuntu should not be considered merely the desktop Linux distribution of choice anymore if a new survey conducted by Canonical and open-source analyst firm RedMonk is an indicator.

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-- 2 different Video Links for this story-- Excerpt: Hard pressed to find good helping hands these days? Not bothered that these helping hands may not be human? Then you may want to try hiring the same workers as used by the owners of the Japanese tavern Kayabukiya.

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Just a tip for waitstaff worldwide: A little courtesy can go a long way. Jessica Osborne was so nice to one set of frequent patrons of the Indiana pizza restaurant where she works that they always requested her as their server.

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Excerpt: You use your hands all the time, but do you wash them just as often? Every day people are touching dirty surfaces, bodily fluids and then other people. You wouldn't go under the knife with surgeons who hadn't washed their hands.

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Now signs indicate the party is moving on to a nightclub called The Cloud. Linux is already in there, Unix has been spotted, and Windows has just made sure its name is on the guest list with its recent Azure cloud services announcement.

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OMAHA, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- An Omaha, Neb., restaurant said musicians with the Trans Siberian Orchestra left waiters a $10,000 tip after three weeks of service.

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A 15-year-old high school student in New York State has been charged with three felonies after he allegedly accessed personnel records on his school's poorly configured computer network and then notified his principal of the security weakness.

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A Japanese restaurant has changed the face of customer service by employing two monkeys to help with the table service.

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Steve Ballmer gets it. While he discusses a strategic interest in search, his head is really in the clouds; in the coming transformation many are calling cloud computing.

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Disgruntled San Francisco system administrator Terry Childs has finally relented and turned over the password to the FiberWAN network he has been holding hostage.

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Child is accused of changing the administrative passwords of San Francisco's FiberWAN network system, which makes accessing the system impossible now without the passwords only he knows.

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The adage that "you can't get fired for buying IBM" is about to change. While companies will still buy from IBM and its competitors, they will soon be asking detailed questions about the energy-efficiency ratings of computer servers.

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Tired of toying with the puny tools that cookie-cutter blog services provide? Follow the steps in this easy guide to install a WordPress blog on your own domain and personalize your Web presence.

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Somewhere between 51,000 and 200,000 records were stolen from Montgomery Ward's servers last December—the company says it's the smaller number, but CardCops, the group that spotted the hack in the first place, "spotted hackers touting the sale of 200,000 payment cards belonging …

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Warning: probably not safe for work (depending on where you work.) If you're in IT (and maybe even if you aren't) this video is so funny it'll make you spit Jolt out your nose. It's a bit long, but watch the whole thing. It just gets funnier and funnier.

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Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualization strategy. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

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After a few troubled years, Dell is back on course and grabbing market share by being everything server More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

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Certain ISPs have been shown to rate limit or block BitTorrent traffic sent by their customers. While there are multiple reports of this on the web, only a few ISPs have admitted that they manipulate BitTorrent traffic.

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A server problem at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has knocked the secretive intelligence agency off the Internet. The nsa.gov Web site was unresponsive at 10 a.m. EDT Thursday and continued to be unavailable throughout the day for Internet users.

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