Australian government research body CSIRO is standing firm on its claims to Wi-Fi patents and refusing to offer any guarantee it won't sue manufacturers of next generation wireless products.
Technology adapted from inkjet printers could deliver medicine or vaccines much like a nicotine patch.
The launch of Sun Microsystems Sun Fire T1000 servers has prompted Oracle to change the way it currently licenses software for machines with multi-core processors.
Following months of anticipation and some high-profile criticism, Oracle has changed the licensing model for its databases and middleware on multicore servers, bringing it a step closer in line with competitors.
Sun Microsystems is considering a dual-licensing move that could raise tantalising possibilities of open-source cooperation between Linux and Sun's Solaris operating system, but legal issues complicate the possibility.
Open-source database company introduces subscription-based service with tiered support, around the general public licence.
If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and sneaky little Atoms nibbling away at the ARM embedded market.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
Since Mac and Windows OSes now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer?
ATI Technologies plans to create a family of chips that could become the backbone for future notebooks based on Intel's new Pentium M processor.
Next month, Intel will bring its hyperthreading technology to desktops, another advance in the chip world that can be traced to Digital Equipment Corp.
Intel is adding to its arsenal of processors for portable devices by developing an XScale-based processor, code-named Bulverde, for handheld computers.
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