Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Sun Announces Three New MySQL Products
Sun Microsystemstoday announced MySQL Cluster 7.0, a major new release of its open source database software for real-time, mission-critical applications. New features include significantly enhanced performance and scalability; support for popular LDAP directories; and simplified cluster back-up and maintenance. Information on MySQL Cluster 7.0 -- including downloads, evaluation guides, and performance benchmarks - is available now at http://www.mysql.com/cluster.
MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault tolerant "shared nothing" architecture, enabling organizations to deploy real-time mission-critical database applications reaching 99.999% ("five nines") availability. MySQL Cluster 7.0 can deliver predictable, millisecond response times while servicing tens of thousands of transactions per second. Support for in-memory and disk based data, automatic data partitioning with load balancing and the ability to add nodes to a running cluster with zero downtime allows almost unlimited database scalability to handle the most unpredictable workloads.
Read more in hardwarezone.com
MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault tolerant "shared nothing" architecture, enabling organizations to deploy real-time mission-critical database applications reaching 99.999% ("five nines") availability. MySQL Cluster 7.0 can deliver predictable, millisecond response times while servicing tens of thousands of transactions per second. Support for in-memory and disk based data, automatic data partitioning with load balancing and the ability to add nodes to a running cluster with zero downtime allows almost unlimited database scalability to handle the most unpredictable workloads.
Read more in hardwarezone.com
Monday, February 9, 2009
Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)
After months of speculation, Amazon.com on Monday introduced a new version of its popular e-book reader, the Kindle. The Kindle 2 sports a dramatic redesign and will begin shipping on February 24th for $359.
The original Kindle was bulky and angular. The Kindle 2 has been completely redesigned; it features new buttons, a new five-way controller and a redesigned power charger. The device's interface lets you search for text, write note sand annotations, and highlight text that interests you.
A new text-to-speech feature lets the device read to you—any text visible on the Kindle can be read, and you can adjust the speed of the playback and gender of the voice. Your page location is saved if you’re listening to the content, so you can return to it and read or have it read to you later. The Kindle 2 also comes with the New Oxford American Dictionary built-in.
Amazon has more details and features
The original Kindle was bulky and angular. The Kindle 2 has been completely redesigned; it features new buttons, a new five-way controller and a redesigned power charger. The device's interface lets you search for text, write note sand annotations, and highlight text that interests you.
A new text-to-speech feature lets the device read to you—any text visible on the Kindle can be read, and you can adjust the speed of the playback and gender of the voice. Your page location is saved if you’re listening to the content, so you can return to it and read or have it read to you later. The Kindle 2 also comes with the New Oxford American Dictionary built-in.
Amazon has more details and features
Friday, January 23, 2009
Black holes from the LHC could survive for minutes
There is absolutely, positively, definitely no chance of the LHC destroying the planet when it eventually switches on some time later this year. Right?
Err, yep. And yet a few niggling doubts are persuading some scientists to run through their figures again. And the new calculations are throwing up some surprises.
The physics arXiv blog has the complete story.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Interview with an Adware Author
Matt Knox, a talented Ruby instructor and coder, talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. (Direct Revenue was sued by Eliot Spitzer in 2006 for allegedly surreptitiously installing adware on millions of computers.)
Carol Bartz : New CEO for Yahoo
Yahoo has chosen former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO to replace Jerry Yang, who announced his intention to step down in November, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Bartz, currently Autodesk's executive board chairman, served as the company's chairman, president and CEO for 14 years. While she was at the helm, Autodesk diversified its product line and saw its revenue rise from US$285 million to $1.523 billion, according to Autodesk's corporate Web site.
Before joining Autodesk, she worked at Sun Microsystems, where she was vice president of worldwide field operations and an executive officer, and at Digital and 3M. President George Bush appointed her to his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and she is on the boards of Intel, Cisco Systems, NetApp, and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology. Her awards include being named as one of the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune Magazine in 2005 and one of the world's 30 most respected CEOs by Barron's in 2005.
Bartz, who according to the Journal is 60 years old, will have her hands full as Yahoo CEO. The company has been in a technology and financial slump for several years. Multiple corporate shake-ups and reorganizations have failed to trigger a turnaround. Yahoo has lagged behind large rivals like Google and small startups, unable to capitalize as much as it should have on many of the hottest Internet opportunities of recent years, like online video, search advertising, social networking and blogging.
Yang's CEO tenure also featured two big rounds of layoffs, an embarrassing exodus of high-profile managers, disappointing financials, a tanking stock price, free-falling employee morale and little or no advances in key areas, like search usage and search advertising. He plans to remain on the Yahoo board and retain his Chief Yahoo title.
© 1998-2008, PC World Communications, Inc.
Before joining Autodesk, she worked at Sun Microsystems, where she was vice president of worldwide field operations and an executive officer, and at Digital and 3M. President George Bush appointed her to his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and she is on the boards of Intel, Cisco Systems, NetApp, and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology. Her awards include being named as one of the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune Magazine in 2005 and one of the world's 30 most respected CEOs by Barron's in 2005.
Bartz, who according to the Journal is 60 years old, will have her hands full as Yahoo CEO. The company has been in a technology and financial slump for several years. Multiple corporate shake-ups and reorganizations have failed to trigger a turnaround. Yahoo has lagged behind large rivals like Google and small startups, unable to capitalize as much as it should have on many of the hottest Internet opportunities of recent years, like online video, search advertising, social networking and blogging.
Yang's CEO tenure also featured two big rounds of layoffs, an embarrassing exodus of high-profile managers, disappointing financials, a tanking stock price, free-falling employee morale and little or no advances in key areas, like search usage and search advertising. He plans to remain on the Yahoo board and retain his Chief Yahoo title.
© 1998-2008, PC World Communications, Inc.
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