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2006: The Year of Living Globally
Trade across international boundaries isn’t new. Multinational corporations aren’t new. Yet, it seems, globalization is new. Although international commerce has been going on since the beginning of civilization, what’s different now is instant communication between scattered locations that makes an office on the other side of the world look like it is next door. That…
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IBM, Cray Win DARPA Supercomputer Contracts
IBM, the world’s largest IT company, and supercomputer builder Cray were notified Nov. 21 that they will be awarded nearly $500 million in contracts by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build next-generation, multi-petaflop computers. Reuters reported that as Wall Street heard the news Cray’s stock shares rose 31 percent to $13.04 on…
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Symantec Releases Beta of New Security Software
Consumers are constantly threatened by harmful Internet agents, online scams, identity theft and other detrimental computer agents that can make one’s information unsecured. To combat these problems, Symantec announced Nov. 22 that it has launched the public beta version of its new consumer security service, Norton 360. Norton 360 integrates Symantec’s PC security and tune-up…
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Suntech to Supply Modules for Massive Solar Power Plant
Suntech Power Holdings has signed a contract to supply solar modules for what it says will be the world’s largest solar power plant. The company said it will supply solar modules with an aggregate output of 23.2 megawatts to Atersa, a subsidiary of Elecnor Group. The modules will be installed in the Photovoltaic Grid Connection…
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OpenOffice Extension Rivals SharePoint
Most people think that OpenOffice.org is a strong office-suite in its own right. But, when it came to a back-office document collaboration and management engine, like Microsoft SharePoint to enable OpenOffice users to work together, it was a different story. Things have changed, with the release by Dutch firm O3Spaces B.V. of a program that…
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AMD Purchases HP Blades
Hewlett-Packard is getting a boost from one its processor partners—AMD. Advanced Micro Devices is purchasing more than more than 700 HP ProLiant BL465c blade servers, a Hewlett-Packard spokesperson said Nov. 21. These servers, which use HP’s Blade System c-Class architecture, already use AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker said it was looking…
