Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive. CNET News.com’s Neha Tiwari reports.
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Organised crime has identified the web as a goldmine – providing opportunities to launch cyber attacks that will earn large amounts of money at a relatively low risk. Learn more.
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The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or swim. Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC manufacturers. And Matt Asay highlights a report from Evans Data
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Bill Gates, we’ll miss you. Not just because you’re the ultimate geek-villain-pioneer-entrepreneur-monopolist.But because you’ve always been there for us.To love. To hate. To envy. To pick on. So this month, your last as a full-time Microsoft employee, we realized it was only right and proper to look back on your storied career.
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Traffic on the world’s networks will increase 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. As a result, there will be an annual bandwidth demand of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a zettabyte.
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Go here to sign a petition boycotting the Associated Press after they came up with their new regulations on blogs.
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A recent study on the music consumption habits of today’s youth shows that most of them download music illegally. However, music is more popular than ever and 80 percent of the participants indicate that they would pay for a legal filesharing service, if only one was available.
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After 5 years, the popular BitTorrent client Azureus is no more. The Vuze team has officially abandoned the Azureus name and the new “social” BitTorrent client is now completely integrated into the Vuze content distribution platform.
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One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled “Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore.” While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can’t stop talking abou
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Mozilla is preparing for the official release of Firefox 3, which will land on June 17. Ars looks at add-on compatibility and some early plans for Firefox 3.1.
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Did you wonder why your GeForce purchasing experience may have changed? Have you wondered why you might have seen all cards priced the same or not priced at all? We have some answers for you on that front and it is called “UMAP.”
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Ok, now this one is highly theoretical. But it is simple stunning how much performance is stuck within graphics cards these days. AMD says its new ATI GPUs have a number crunching capability of almost 5 TFlops - which is the equivalent delivered by about 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs back in 1996. Amazing.
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