Justin Rattner, Intels chief technology officer, is planning to talk about the developments underway at Intels research laboratories and where Intel sees technology developing during the next 40 years during the 2008 Intel Developer Forum. At the Intel Developer Forum, Rattner is planning to discuss Intels vision for photonics replacing traditional copper wiring in processors and where Intel sees the marriage of the mobile and embedded devices market.
- SAN FRANCISCO � In the next 40 years, Intel is planning to develop a range of new technologies that not only will allow chips to communicate through pulses of light, but allow for users to wirelessly project the Internet onto large screens from tiny mobile devices. That is the vision of the fut...

Intel revealed the architectural details, Aug. 20, of its next generation Intel Nehalem, now known as Intel Core i7 and with it some twists on the classic x86 architecture.
- st1\:* Intel revealed the architectural details, Aug. 20, of its next generation Intel Nehalem, now known as Intel Core i7 and with it some twists on the classic x86 architecture. One of the key goals of Nehalem was to make the architecture scalable, in two very different ways. T...

Starting in 2009, all of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc's films will be in next-generation 3-D. Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation and No. 1 chipmaker Intel Corp announced a 3-D movie image brand called InTru 3D at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday. Intel's contribution to the 3-D partnership technology came through acquisitions of start-up companies, with more innovations from its stand-alone graphics chip due in 2009, code-named Larrabee.
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Starting in 2009, all of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc's films will be in next-generation 3-D. quot;This is the next innovation for the movie industry, quot; Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation, said in an interview. quot;It impacts how we make...

Intel posted new prices for Intels mobile processors, including its latest low voltage and ultra-low voltage processors the LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700, L7500 and L7300. The ultra-low voltage Intel processors will find their way into laptops like the new Lenovo Thinkpad X301 and the HP Elitebooks 2530p and 2730p. The Intel U7700 (1.33GHz), the U7600 (1.2GHz), and the U7500 (1.06Ghz) have 2MB L2 Cache and support a 533Mhz FSB. Like their Intel LV counterparts, they are developed on a 65nm process, essentially making them non-Penryn cores.
- Intel posted new prices for Intels mobile processors, including its latest low voltage and ultra-low voltage processors the LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700, L7500 and L7300. The LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700 (1.8GHz), L7500 (1.6GHz), and L7300 (1.4GHz) have 4MB L2 caches and support for an 800MHz FSB. The $...

Intel and Yahoo unveiled a combination of the Intel Media Processor CE3100 ( Canmore ) and the Yahoo open widget-based platform for TV and an initiative to embed applications - and ads - directly on your HDTV. The Intel-Yaho partnership either will require a set-top box, or the Canmore platform integrated directly into the TV. At press time, the price or availability of such set-top boxes was not known, but Kim said a set-top box would cost substantially less than the $300 charged by Sony for a similar device. The technology could also be built directly in to TVs, Blu-ray players, or other devices.
- Intel and Yahoo unveiled a combination of the Intel Media Processor CE3100 ( quot;Canmore quot;) and the Yahoo open widget-based platform for TV and an initiative to embed applications � and ads � directly on your HDTV. Dubbed the Widget Channel, Intel execs believe the technology is the key to bri...

Intel revealed the Intel Atom 330 today, a dual-core version of its Atom ( Diamondville ) processor for low-cost nettop PCs. Like the Intel Atom 230, the Intel Atom 330 uses 45nm technology, features a 533MHz frontside bus and is designed to work with Intel's 945GC chipset (the 82945GC northbridge and 82801GB southbridge). Unlike the Intel Atom 230, however, the Intel Atom 330 features dual cores, plus second-level cache that has been doubled from 512MB to 1GB
- Intel revealed the Intel Atom 330 today, a dual-core version of iis Atom ( quot;Diamondville quot;) processor for low-cost quot;nettop quot; PCs. Like the Intel Atom 230, the Intel Atom 330 uses 45nm technology, features a 533MHz frontside bus and is designed to work with Intel's 945GC chipset (t...

Palm unveiled a new Palm Treo smart phone Aug. 20 based on Microsoft software to compete for business mobile users against rivals such as RIM's BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone. The Palm Treo Pro will be sold by Vodafone Group and 02 in Europe in September, and by Telstra in Australia. Palm does not have an agreement with a U.S. carrier to sell the phone, but it says enterprise demand is growing for unlocked smart phones that can work on any mobile network.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) Palm Inc unveiled a Treo smartphone Wednesday based on Microsoft Corp software to compete for business users against rivals such as Research In Motion's BlackBerry. The new Treo Pro will be sold by Vodafone Group Plc and 02 in Europe in September, and by Telstra in Australia, P...

Security vendor Guardian Analytics is using behavioral modeling to prevent online identity theft and bank fraud. The small security vendor is entering a crowded market for authentication technologies and is banking on its ability to build models based on user behavior to predict user activity and thereby detect fraud.
- Security firm Guardian Analytics is banking on behavioral modeling to beef up authentication and protect online financial transactions against fraud and identity theft. The company has extended what it calls dynamic account modeling. With its technology, now inside its recently launched FraudMAP ...

While the first part of the Intel Developer Forum focused on Intel processors for desktops, notebooks and server systems, the second day shifts focus to the Intel Atom processor and a new generation of mobile Internet devices or MIDs that Intel hopes vendors will develop using the Atom chip. The second phase of the Atom processor rollout is scheduled for 2009 with the debut of the Moorestown platform, which will use a new processor called Lincroft.
- SAN FRANCISCO After focusing on mainstream processor technology for PCs and servers, the Intel Developer Forum shifted focus to the Intel Atom processor that has been built for a new generation of mobile Internet devices, or MIDs. During his Aug. 20 keynote here, Anand Chandrasekhar, an Intel se...

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social network and application use in the enterprise proves to be thorny issue after Gartner analysts make their case for the social apps. Whether Facebook and these other networks and apps will have weight as enterprise applications is still up for debate, but it's clear these messaging and collaboration tools are here to stay. Whether or not they stay in your businesses is another story. Oh, and, like BigFoot, these readers prove multitasking is a myth.
- A story I published nearly three weeks ago about the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social applications in the workplace has taken on new life from readers who responded passionately for and against the issue. In the report, Gartner analysts Anthony Bradley and Nikos Drakos argued that social...

Recent releases of browsers have users jumping through hoops to view self-signed SSL certificates.
- by Larry Seltzer Read Larry Seltzer's article on The Untrustworthiness of Self-Signed Certificates. Making the Web quot;safe by default, quot; browsers are suspicious of SSL Web sites (those with a https:// prefix) that use certificates not signed by a trusted authority - VeriSign, Glob...

SSL pages with self-signed certificates are less trustworthy. But does Mozilla's Firefox go overboard with this issue? Making the Web safe by default, Web browsers are suspicious of SSL Web sites (those that use an https:// prefix) that use certificates not signed by a trusted certificate authority, such as VeriSign, GlobalSign, GoDaddy or Thawte. Firefox 3 in particular makes you jump through hoops in order to view such a page. This has caused some in the Web security community to question the importance of the SSL authentication.
- User interface changes in some newer browsers have gotten some in the security community riled up. The issue is self-signed certificates. Some folks don't like users being told that their roll-your-own certificates aren't as good as the non-free ones. But the fact is that they aren't as good, esp...

Passengers can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami.
- CHICAGO (Reuters) - AMR Corp's American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband. The world's largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Interne...

In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, David Lear, Dell director of worldwide regulatory compliance and environmental affairs, talks about the impact green computing is going to have on setting IT budget priorities over the next couple of years.
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The pact between Microsoft and Novell, however, stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community.
- SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft plans to pay software maker Novell up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software. The payment to be made by Nov. 1, announced by the companies ...

Salesforce.com paid $31.5 million to buy out InStranet, which markets a knowledge base used by customer service call centers and customer self-service Web portals. InStranet was an AppExchange partner, which had provided its knowledge base technology as part of a number of Salesforce.com on-demand CRM deployments.
- Salesforce.com, a 9-year-old company that has grown mostly from internal expansion, disclosed on Aug. 20 that it has acquired AppExchange partner InStranet, the producer of customer service knowledge base technology, for $31.5 million. InStranets knowledge base technology is used by business-to...

Hyperic's CloudStatus cloud computing management service is now capable of monitoring performance in the Google App Engine service, which customers are using as the foundation for enterprise applications. Hyperic currently covers Amazon Web Services and Google but could expand to manage environments for Etelos, Coghead, Bungee Labs and Morph Labs.
- Given the rising popularity of software as a service in businesses this year, it's important that cloud-computing providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google, Salesforce.com and others have a healthy ecosystem of supporters. Add Hyperic to the list. Hyperic, which bills itself as an open-sou...

Microsoft and Novell expand their interoperability partnership with Microsoft buying up to $100 million in SUSE Linux certificates. The partnership helps enable SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server to work together in the datacenter. Moreover, the companies will continue to work collaboratively on virtual-ization, systems management, directory and identity federation, document format compatibility, acces-sibility technology, and the Moonlight multimedia framework.
- Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their partnership to promote interoperability between the SUSE Linux platform and Windows, with Microsoft pledging to purchase up to $100 million in certificates that customers can redeem for support. The goal of the Microsoft/Novell ...

While most of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum focused on Intel processors that will use the upcoming Nehalem microarchitecture, part of the forum also looked ahead to what Intel would offer for both laptops and notebook security. Intel also introduced its first quad-core processors for laptops called the Core 2 Extreme QX9300 and the Core 2 Quad Q9100. Intel is also expected to offer an anti-theft device for notebooks.
- SAN FRANCISCO While the majority of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here has focused on Intels Nehalem microarchitecture, the chip makers top executives also took time to emphasize Intels focus on consumer and business notebooks. During his keynote address Aug. 19, Dadi Perlmutter, an Intel executi...

At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's top executives focused on an upcoming series of Intel processors built on the new Nehalem microarchitecture, which will scale up from two to eight processing cores. These new Intel processors, which will eventually find their way into servers, notebooks and desktops, add new power management and virtualization capabilities. The Intel processors will also offer an integrated memory controller, which will rival what AMD has offered with its Opteron processors.
- SAN FRANCISCO Intel lifted the curtain a little more on its upcoming lineup of processors based on the quot;Nehalem quot; microarchitecture, which will include new power management features and enhanced capabilities for virtualization. While the chip maker held back some critical information on...