2009 marks the 13th anniversary for a slew of seminal tech industry events, so here on Friday the 13th, is a brief look back at developments both lucky and unlucky. (For our annual Geekiest 25th Anniversaries, click here) 1. Motorola introduces the ...
I caught up with Metcalfe, now a general partner with Polaris Ventures, briefly via BlackBerry to get his thoughts. 3Com grew in the shadow of HP, always asking what would Bill [Hewlett] and Dave [Packard] do. The joke was that 3Com was the best of ...
Ethernet inventor looks back on 3Com’s legacy in wake of HP blockbuster deal I caught up with Metcalfe, now a general partner with Polaris Ventures, briefly via BlackBerry to get his thoughts. 3Com grew in the shadow of HP, always asking what would ...
While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. "The easy steps in consolidation and virtualization have ...
Two ocean beaches will open next week for the next razor clam dig. Twin Harbors will open for late-evening digs Wednesday through Nov. 7, while Long Beach will open Wednesday, Friday and Nov. 7 only. Digging at the beaches will be restricted to the ...
Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes project puts network processors, flash memory to work in an energy efficient way Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines ...
Network World - Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today’s long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. The Shanghai-born Kao shares the award with Willard Boyle and George Smith, ...
Researchers this week published a paper describing how they broke Vanish, a secure communications system prototype out of the University of Washington that generated lots of buzz when introduced over the summer for its ability to make data ...
Wim Sweldens, VP of Bell Labs' Alcatel-Lucent Ventures and in essence Alcatel-Lucent's CTO, said in an interview with Network World this week at the EmTech@MIT event in Cambridge, Mass., that Alcatel-Lucent's mission involves not just serving the ...
Network World - Bill Gates will share words of wisdom on Sept. 22 at the opening ceremony for a computer science center bearing his name at Carnegie Mellon University, the home of the nation’s first such department in 1965. The Gates Center for ...
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