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Google releases Chrome 19 with patches for 20 bugs and new tab sync

Google released Chrome 19, patched 20 vulnerabilities in the browser and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties and rewards to independent researchers.
Nvidia to link Telsa graphics processors with the cloud

Nvidia have announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialised mathematics and scientific calculations.
Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G Ethernet to core switches

Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.
Google SPDY gets boost as F5 adds support to Big-IP controllers

F5 Networks has become the first app delivery controller vendor to announce support for Google?s SPDY web-acceleration protocol, adding support to its Big-IP hardware.
Adobe launches Premiere Pro CS6 with new interface, faster performance, better colour correction

Premiere Pro CS6 launched with two new companion products: SpeedGrade and Prelude. Adobe has also announced After Effects CS6, and Photoshop CS6 has been available as a beta since last month. The rest of CS6 is expected to be launched soon.
Fusion-io CEO: Flash is not just about storage

The real advantage of high density NAND Flash is more its ability to carry out application workload acceleration than its capacity for storage, according to Flash storage vendor Fusion-io.
LSI launches new line of Nytro application acceleration cards

LSI has announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the servers.
Arista embeds applications into Ethernet 7124FX Application Switch

Arista Networks has rolled out an Ethernet switch designed to improve the performance of latency-sensitive applications like those found in financial trading and high performance computing environments.
Blue Coat refocusses WAN optimisation offering

Blue Coat has unvelied a new plan to rebuild its position in the WAN optimisation market and announcedthe appointment of David Murphy as new president and COO.
HP ProLiant Gen8 server strategy focuses on SSDs and storage bottleneck

In its upcoming ProLiant Gen8 Smart Array, HP uses solid-state drives and a caching algorithm it calls Dynamic Workload Acceleration to address I/O throughput issues.

Latest Features

What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.
Cobol on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.
HP announcements and missed opportunities

HP's products unveiled recently range from an enhanced server line to a new range of thin clients to the first all-in-one workstation. What's missing is an HP corporate story along with what may be the major competitive opportunity. Let me explain.
Is quantum computing real?

Researchers have been working on quantum systems for more than a decade, in the hopes of developing super-tiny, super-powerful computers. And while there is still plenty of excitement surrounding quantum computing, significant roadblocks are causing some to question whether quantum computing will ever make it out of the lab.
HAL 9000 will soon be a reality

A few years ago, the Pentagon launched a program to create a fully functional HAL 9000 - the intelligent software robot depicted in the 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Cisco Cius: A hands on preview

Toss all preconceptions of the Cisco Cius out the door. This is not just another Android tablet. Instead, Cisco has taken great pains to position the Cius as a very different type of tablet. This is one device whose primary purpose lies less in competing head-to-head with the tablet masses, and more at changing how the enterprise does business.
Eight lessons on mobile development

InfoWorld's 8-lesson guide for developers making the transition to smartphones and tablets.
Our first impressions of Firefox 4 on Mac

For years, Firefox has trundled along at the back of the browser pack, a beast of burden laden with fancy features but lacking speed. Not anymore. Mozilla has released Firefox 4, and in our preliminary tests, the browser makes a huge performance leap forward.
Top ten best new features in Firefox 4

Mozilla's Firefox 4 is now officially expected to debut on Tuesday March 22, following hard on the heels of Google's Chrome 10 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9.
Five reasons to try OpenSUSE 11.4

With hundreds of Linux distributions to choose from, users of the open source operating system face what may almost be called an embarrassment of riches, so numerous are their options.

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