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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hi all! A new example has been added the iep workshop. It’s on how to map an exernal DB to a relation update. This way, we can keep the external DB table up to par with the internal state of IEP. Fairly simple [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In a Nehalem whitepapter dated roughly to mid-2008, there’s a bullet point on Page 7 under the Intel® QuickPath Architecture Performance that while brief speaks volumes. It reads: Intel® QuickPath Architecture Performance … - Hot plug capability to support hot plugging of nodes, such as processor cards. [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: There’s an increasing trend in the compute virtualization space to package apps with OS images as “virtual appliances.” A great example is VMWare’s virtual appliance library. As we continue to look at how the world of private cloud-like virtualization and public cloud computing starts to merge, looking [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I have not been a frequent blogger at blogs.sun.com (putting it mildly), but i thought today was an excellent day to write what might be my last entry in this venue. Assuming the proposed acquisition by Oracle goes through as planned, it is not clear if this blog will [...]

You can look at it as the beginnings of real interactive television — or simply one big episode of the cult comedy TV series “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ brought to life. In any event, thanks to forthcoming plans from IBM and Fox, viewers will soon be able to talk back to their flat-screen televisions [...]

An Alaska technology company hopes to hit the market with the world’s first laptop boasting two identical 15.4-inch displays by the end of this year. At nearly 12-pounds and equipped with two 15.4-inch screens and a full-sized keyboard, gScreen’s planned $3,000 Spacebook series definitely doesn’t track the “smaller is better” ethos prevailing in the [...]

The director of the Obama administration’s personnel office is going to tell me about his recent meetings with Facebook, Google and Ideo as part of an effort to open up government communications and recruit tech-savvy federal employees.

Source/Kaynak : http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~3/VWemAqOGYgk/

brothke writes “The Myths of Security: What the Computer Security Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know is an interesting and thought-provoking book. Ultimately, the state of information security can be summed up in the book’s final three sentences, in which John Viega writes that ‘real, timely improvement is possible, but it requires people to care [...]

Players are banned from sending Twitter messages during matches of the Grand Slam tennis tournament. Source/Kaynak : http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500654&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

A Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general report finds “systemic” problems in IT project management at the agency. Source/Kaynak : http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500644&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

Bell Mobility will offer the touch-screen smartphone for $199.95 with a three-year contract. Source/Kaynak : http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/smartphones/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500653&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

A property developer is seeking to identify critics associated with a Gmail address used by TCI Journal, an online site covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. Source/Kaynak : http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500640&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

The low-power, six-core processor is designed for use in cloud servers and data centers. Source/Kaynak : http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500651&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Canis Lupus writes to mention that researchers from the University of West England are designing the world’s first biological robot, constructed from mold. The robot, “Plasmobot,” will be created using vegetative slime mold called plasmodium (Physarum polycephalum) that is commonly found in forests, gardens, and most damp places in [...]

Selling the iPhone on multiple carriers may be the only way for Apple to gain significant market share in the U.S. Source/Kaynak : http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500643&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb