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IBM Uses Virtualization for U.S. Open Site
Using a combination of virtualization technology and management software, IBM was able to radically pare down the number of servers needed to host the Web site for this year’s U.S. Open. The Armonk, N.Y., company is using its Virtualization Engine in concert with software such as its Enterprise Workload Manager to reduce the number of…
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Gadgets That Just Won’t Break
Were you the type of kid who broke toys pretty soon after they came out of the box? Or maybe you just go through eyeglasses, camera, phones, and music players with abandon. Even if you’re not like this at all, you probably know someone who fits this sad profile. Perhaps they’re a student returning back…
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BEA Delivers Tuxedo SOA Technology
BEA Systems has completed development of BEA Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo 1.1, a solution for making applications that use BEA’s Tuxedo run more efficiently on service-oriented architectures. Officials at BEA, in San Jose, Calif., said BEA SALT 1.1 is based on a configuration-driven model that presents existing Tuxedo services as Web services with no coding…
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Microsoft Hits Vista RC1
Microsoft’s Windows Vista RC (Release Candidate) 1 is done. Now it’s up to the estimated 6 million testers to which the company is planning to release the code to determine if it really is ready for prime time. Microsoft has posted the RC 1 build, Number 5600, on its TechBeta Web sites for select technical…
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Babblestick Delivers VOIP on the Go
Babble.net, an Internet telephony provider, is challenging Skype for a larger share of subscribers by offering greater flexibility in making VOIP calls. The London-based company announced a new USB stick, dubbed the Babblestick, that can be plugged into any PC to make a free VOIP (voice-over-IP) call, without having to download software to the PC…
