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  • Microsoft boffin wins Turing Award

    The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. That was the real benefit in my mind, that we were…
    10 March 2010
    Tags: Silicon Valley • Prototype • Prize • Networked • Charles • Award

  • AMD battles Intel with 12-core server chip

    Advanced Micro Devices is offering prizes to drum up more interest ahead of this month's launch of its 12-core server chip, as rival Intel also has server-chip launch plans.AMD will award prizes valued at US$8,189 to the person who best describes…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Micro • Consumption • Channels • Cache • Boost • Battle

  • Microsoft and science foundation collaborate on cloud computing

    An explosion of data is leading to a need for new approaches to computing-based research, but it doesn't make sense for each university to host its own cloud computing environment, he said.We need to shift the dialogue from a focus on…
    05 February 2010
    Tags: Science • Researchers • Grant • Foundation • Community • Cloud

  • Oracle wins battle against SAP

    The question is not what Oracle would have charged for a license, 'but what is the fair market value.In a statement, SAP expressed disappointment but noted that it "did not award any particular damages amount or provide that Oracle is actually…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Sap • License • Filed • Damages • Court • Battle

  • MySpace offers $50,000 reward for apps

    MySpace has opened the submission period for its Developer Challenge, a contest in which the company will award $50,000 in prizes for new applications and for innovative uses of the social networking site's application programming interfaces.
    05 January 2010
    Tags: Opened • Action • Interfaces • Developer • Status • Api

  • Google to support IPv6 protocol on YouTube

    Indeed, Google's lead IPv6 engineers, Colitti and Kline, were recognised by the Internet Society earlier this month for their contributions to IPv6 deployment as winners of the Itojun Service Award, which includes a $3,000 prize.The Internet…
    20 November 2009
    Tags: Streaming • Professionals • Boxes • Addresses • Engineers • Engineer

Latest Features

  • VirtenSys talks up the benefits of I/O virtualisation

    VirtenSys caused a bit of a stir among the judges when it won best virtualisation product at last year's Techworld Award. This is not a new technology - a company called Xsigo which has an OEM agreement with Dell has already taken steps down this…
    05 February 2010
    Tags: Talks • Server Virtualisation • Savings • Saving • Figures • Data Centre

  • Top 10 dumbest tech stories of 2009

    Epic failures in punctuation award:Is a tie between the country of Sweden and Google. Best use of vomit as a promotional tool award:Goes to Microsoft, for its ever so charming TV ad for Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate browsing feature, in which a…
    08 January 2010
    Tags: Reality • Bank • Country • Person • Planet • Tech

  • Five surprising spots for new data centres

    Securing the LEED award required using as much of the existing facility as possible; it also took advanced commissioning, a process to ensure that all of its systems are designed, installed, and tested to perform according to the design intent and…
    09 September 2009
    Tags: Modular • House • Invest • Engines • Data Centres • Facility

  • The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

    We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. for the way that the product line will expand to larger (24- and 48-port) versions.The Innovative product of the year is a slightly different award, its not entered per se…
    03 July 2008
    Tags: Maxwell Cooter • Access Point • Category • Firmware • Debate • Network Management

  • HP winning VMware-Microsoft virtualisation battle

    Fogarty won an ASBPE (American Society of Business Publication Editors) award for column-writing during his stint at Computerworld. Despite the claims and counterclaims of superiority by Microsoft and VMware - and now Citrix and VMware - it's…
    28 May 2008
    Tags: Announcements • Function • Citrix • Battle • Server Virtualisation • Kevin

  • Salvaging IT equipment is good news

    The student learns about computers and software and receives the machine as an award for completing the class. Why would a business that focussed on technology recovery, refurbishing and resale, want to re-brand itself?
    04 October 2007
    Tags: Commerce • Safety • Act • Assets • Asset • Suppliers

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  • Case Study: College gets the NAC of wireless security

    This comprehensive, integrated view of wireless and wired LAN security earns Sinclair a 2007 Enterprise All-Star Award from Network World.For the project, launched in 2005, McCollum created a tiered-policy architecture and applied two-factor…
    27 November 2007
    Tags: Active Directory • Wired • School • Breaches • Rights • Guest

  • Case Study: A network-upgrade horror story, part 2: Bidding the project

    Of course, we learned all this literally at the 11th hour, just before we were to award the fibre-infrastructure RFP. We had two choices: award the project to the winning vendor, or pull the fibre RFP and rewrite it to let the carriers bid on the…
    07 August 2007
    Tags: Owned • Optical • Gear • Employee • Campus • Francisco

  • Case Study: And the Oscar goes to … jovial penguins and 2,000 blade servers

    An initial implementation of 500 blade servers soon grew to 2,000 to meet the processing capacity requirements for creating the Oscar-winning animated film Happy Feet.The 108-minute computer-generated animated feature, which recently won an…
    12 March 2007
    Tags: Movie • Requirements • Blade • Australia • Production • Logic

  • Things to do while the LAN is quiet

    She has won several industry awards for her reporting, including the American Society of Business Publication Editors' prestigious Gold Award. With the new year rapidly approaching and users easing up on their network usage, IT experts say now is…
    21 December 2006
    Tags: Defence • Network World • Mission • Depth • Logs • Editor

  • Case Study: Linux does the job

    That strategy made Taleo a 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award winner for its virtualised application infrastructure. That strategy made Taleo a 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award winner for the virtualised application infrastructure it completed in June…
    03 October 2006
    Tags: Databases • Virtualised • Human • Executives • Cluster • Cent

  • Case Study: US Census buys 0.5m Windows PDAs

    US census-takers will use wireless handheld computers in the 2010 census instead of pen and paper to save time and improve accuracy, under a government contract to purchase 500,000 mobile devices and related technology.The enormous five-year pact…
    06 April 2006
    Tags: Automation • Contract • Windows Mobile • Custom • Handheld • Customised

Reviews

  • Whitelisting security comes of age

    A few are borderline excellent, and one, Bit9's Parity, is not only the clear frontrunner but a likely candidate for Technology of the Year Award. Remarkably good solutions from Bit9, CoreTrace, Lumension, McAfee, and SignaCert show that…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • End Users • Enabled • Audit • Trust • Trusted

  • BitDefender Total Security 2008

    In recent time it has won the Virus Bulletin's VB100% award 14 times out of 18 and both ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs certify it for virus detection and removal. With a name like BitDefender Total Security 2008, you might think that BitDefender…
    01 November 2009
    Tags: Scans • Spyware • Modules • Alerts • Labs • Learning

  • Sony Ericsson PlayNow arena with movies review

    Currently, the Dutch site has the best selection, including classics Chinatown and Shawshank Redemption, and little-seen gem Tropa de Elite.Old Boy by Chan-Wook Park is available on both the Swedish and Norwegian sites.The award for the worst…
    12 June 2009
    Tags: Sony • Movie • Ericsson • Selection • Watching • Title

  • Chillblast Fusion Thunder desktop review

    Chillblast Fusion Thunder desktop review Paul Monckton review,reviews With excellent Windows and gaming performance, superb storage and support for Blu-ray playback, the Chillblast Fusion Thunder is well deserving of its Best Buy award.
    29 May 2009
    Tags: Pair • Playback • Geforce • Setup • Gaming • Bluray

  • Dell Studio XPS 13 laptop review

    Combining great style, solid build quality and sheer outright performance, the Studio XPS thoroughly earns its PC Advisor Gold Award. With a few exceptions, Dell has often been seen as the safe choice, a PC manufacturer that offers good value for…
    17 March 2009
    Tags: Chassis • Compact • Keys • Hdmi • Geforce • Gigabit Ethernet

  • LG Netbook X110 laptop

    If it weren't for the curiously poor battery performance, we'd have been happy to award the LG Netbook X110 our Recommended badge. LG sees itself as a cool fashion brand, producing popular mobile phones under its own name and with Prada branding…
    16 February 2009
    Tags: Chassis • Lg • Resolution • Keys • Battery • Netbook

White Papers

  • Lowering your IT costs with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Professionals • Centres • Budgets • Foundation • Oracle Database

  • The Value of Network Monitoring

    The Value of Network Monitoring Ipswitch Presented by Ipswitch, Techworld Award winner whitepaper This paper describes the importance of network monitoring in maintaining the availability of an organisations network.
    08 January 2008
    Tags: Availability • Network Monitoring • Whatsup Gold • Ipswitch

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