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What the gas crisis means for your IT costs
With U.S. gas prices solidly topping the $4 per gallon price barrier, the automobile industry is taking a beating. Truck sales have slowed and conspiracy theories are circulating the Internet to explain the shortage of some hybrid car models (is it possible that they've simply sold all they produced?). High energy prices are impacting every aspect of the economy, and daily we hear new predictions of gloom and doom. At a minimum, reducing energy consumption - and expense - is on everyone's mind. So what is the impact on IT infrastructure and specifically storage? More..

AMD gains ground on Intel in chip wars
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) gained some ground on rival Intel in the lucrative microprocessor market during the first quarter, market research iSuppli said late Tuesday. More..

Yahoo-Google partnership under DOJ scrutiny
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. More..

Microsoft to sell Office 'value pack' for $70 per year
Microsoft has chosen the name "Equipt" for a forthcoming package of products that includes its Office suite, Internet security software and other services, and will sell it for an annual subscription fee of US$69.99. More..

Unified archive pulls it all together
GFT inboxx has developed a unified archive - a single repository which it claimed can store anything that an organization needs to keep in digital form, whether it be e-mail, ERP data, voice recordings, or faxes. More..

FIC eyes sales of 300,000 netbooks this year
First International Computer (FIC), which manufactures laptop computers for other companies, estimates it will ship 300,000 netbooks this year, and predicts that figure will nearly triple in 2009. More..

Google changes tack on pay-per-action offerings
Google is rolling out two new offerings that let advertisers more precisely target people who will likely be receptive to their products. More..

Indian agency walks all over laptops to test ruggedness
Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) uses an unusual way to test laptop computers that it plans to deliver to students in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. It places them on a hard floor and asks people weighing over 80 kilograms to walk all over them to ensure that the computers are rugged and durable. More..

Sun claims million-messages-per-second trading system
Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced it has broken the million-message-per-second barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System used by Wall Street traders. More..

Ellison-backed Pillar targets storage utilization rates
Larry Ellison-backed Pillar Data Systems upgrades storage system for VMware, Oracle and Exchange environments. More..

Dell simplifies blade server management with I/O virtualization
Dell is simplifying management of its blade servers with an I/O virtualization tool. More..

Budget blowback: Virtualization isn't that easy
There are a lot of things that are simple in principle that are a lot more complicated in reality. International relations. Poverty. Even virtualization may be a topic where your ideas and everyone else's ideas of how to solve other people's problems may not mesh up. More..

IT buyers won't sacrifice performance to help environment, study finds
A large number of IT shops aren't willing to sacrifice server performance even if it would help the environment, according to a new survey by hosting provider Rackspace. More..

MSI Wind mini-desktop with Intel's Atom to debut in July
A business version of Micro-Star International's (MSI) Wind mini-desktop PC should be available in Asia and Europe in July, as products are already in mass production, a company representative said Monday. More..

France Télécom gives up on TeliaSonera merger
France Télécom has withdrawn its offer to acquire telecommunications operator TeliaSonera. The companies were unable to agree on price, France Télécom said Monday. More..

Survey determines 'ideal' vice presidential candidates
It turns out that the ideal vice presidential candidate for Senator John McCain, a Republican running for president, is the same person as the ideal vice presidential candidate for Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat, according to a sophisticated online survey by Affinnova. More..

Zambia government launches rural ICT program
The Zambian government is calling on the private sector and communities around the country to partner in an effort to increase access to information through ICT. More..

Providing unhappy customers a voice on the 'Net
Meet the man who could be your company's de facto customer service representative -- a man you have never met and certainly isn't on your payroll. Thor Muller is founder and CEO of Satisfaction Unlimited, which runs an online community where customers air complaints about companies like Comcast, Apple, United Airlines, Whole Foods, Washington Mutual, Snapfish and Expedia to fellow customers and to the Internet at large. More..

Cisco sets major greenhouse target
Networking solutions giant Cisco is seeking to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its worldwide operations by 25% by 2012. More..

NASA: Tests show Martian soil can support life
Finding more familiar than alien elements, NASA scientists Thursday announced that their initial analysis found that Martian soil could support life. More..

Nirvanix puts NAS in the cloud
Network storage developer Nirvanix has developed cloud-based NAS - a plan which lets users connect systems to Internet-located storage nodes via NFS, CIFS or FTP. More..

Study: 80% of businesses have at least one Mac
Macs and Mac OS X are becoming more widely-used among U.S. businesses, a recent Yankee Group survey explains. More..

Microsoft, Powerset mum on rumor about deal
A report has set off a ripple across the Internet that Microsoft is set to announce it is buying semantic-search engine provider Powerset. However, so far neither company is commenting on whether that deal is actually happening. More..

How social networking saved New Orleans
If there is any doubt to the power of social media, social networking and social software, then nonbelievers may need to Think New Orleans. More..

Gigabit Ethernet powers computer clusters
Gigabit Ethernet as a means to connect devices in data centers and storage facilities has earned another proof point -- a computing cluster in Germany that is linked by Gigabit Ethernet and that has ranked number 58 overall for performance among the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world. More..