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Hardware maker IBM (NYSE: IBM) said on Wednesday it has bought privately held software maker Platform Solutions, and the two companies have dropped their legal complaints against each other. No financial terms were disclosed. In December 2006, IBM sued Platform Solutions, charging that the company, which makes software that can run on IBM’s high-end mainframe […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – It may be the most famous slide show of all time. “An Inconvenient Truth,” the movie staring environmental activist and former Vice President Al Gore, is at its heart a slide show, hardly the format for a box office hit. The movie’s popularity was not the only surprise, it’s also generated […]

Sensing the start of a personal computer revolution, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft and pursue a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Three decades later, Gates is set to step down on Friday from what is now the world’s largest software company to […]

Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is making a play for Linux users new and old with the release of its openSUSE 11 distribution. Version 11 introduces an installer, improved package management and updated key open source packages. The new distribution is Novell’s attempt to put its best stuff out on the field as it ramps up the […]

As theater goers watch the Incredible Hulk take on his nemesis Abomination during a New York city rooftop battle in “The Incredible Hulk,” which premiered this week, few, if any, realize the storage power necessary to make the computer generated movie scenes. In taking on its largest movie project yet, Soho VFX, a Toronto-based visual […]

The virtual desktop is It. Again. Yawn. Not only is this pesky concept of the virtual desktop not going the way of thin-clients and dumb terminals before it, but the ecosystem around it appears to be growing! Perhaps this is because the vendors have gotten smarter in how they approach the situation. Rather than trying […]

In the new Dell naming convention system, T is for tower and R is for rack. So you would expect B would mean blade. Not so. “There’s much about the Dell M Series launch that’s practical — from simple but straightforward management to narrowly focusing on the volume sweet-spot of dual-socket server blades,” said Haff. […]

While you probably won’t run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications. The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM. Servers and desktops are not alone, virtualization is also a perfect fit for embedded devices too. Virtualization benefits are […]

Last week, voting wrapped up for the Third Annual ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards. The anticipation has been building for a week, but we can now bring you the results. After two years of holding this reader-driven program, we thought we knew what to expect. How naive we were. While in some cases history repeated and […]

Mobile phone users are not only getting more social and looking for fun, they’re also increasingly willing to spend more for the privilege when they buy a phone. According to a new study from J.D. Power and Associates, they’re willing to spend an average of $9 more on new phones — an increase the research […]