Eucalyptus Systems, the company that is commercializing the open source code that mimics Amazon Web Services cloud APIs, says it seeing the download of 15,000 copies of Eucalyptus cloud APIs a month now. That was true in November and December. Before those two months, the download rate was more like 8,500 a month. CTO Rich [...]

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Oracle will provide more details about its plans for Sun Microsystems at an event next Wednesday, the same day European regulators are expected to sign off on the deal. CEO Larry Ellison will host the event at Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, where executives will outline Oracle’s strategy for absorbing Sun, including details about [...]

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Workers at the factory making screens for Apple – not to mention Nokia and just about everyone else – are striking for promised bonuses and fewer toxic chemicals. The strike, which the China Daily reports involves around 2,000 of the 10,000 workers at the factory, is in protest at the suspension of promised bonuses. It [...]

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I mention all this because, its likely that your computer is not running Shockwave. I haven’t seen it installed on any machine in a long time. Still, Adobe claims that “Over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops have installed Adobe Shockwave Player.” If that includes you, be aware that the update procedure is long-winded. You have to [...]

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Google this week will open another front on its war with Apple. This time, it takes aim at iTunes Movie rentals. Like most Google projects, it starts innocent enough, by only offering movies from the Sundance Film festival and from other independent filmakers. And so, we are excited today to announce our partnership with the [...]

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Participants were trained on one of two versions of Space Fortress, which was developed at the University of Illinois. Players are supposed to destroy a fortress without losing their ship to one of several potential hazards. Half of the participants were asked to focus on maximizing their overall score while paying attention to the various [...]

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This tech tip provides examples of different ways to reset the password for user root for a ZFS root file system in the Solaris 10 OS on SPARC platforms. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/reset_root_pwd_zfs_s10.jsp

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A deep-sea snail wears a multilayered suit of armor, complete with iron, new research shows. Dissecting details of the shell’s structure could inspire tough new materials for use in everything from body armor to scratch-free paint. “If you look at the individual properties of the bits and pieces that go into making this shell, they’re [...]

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Glowing hydrogen lights up this new portrait of the Cat’s Paw Nebula captured by the Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The space photo combines images taken with standard red, green and blue filters with those taken through a special filter designed to capture the red light of the hot gas. [...]

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Viewsonic isn’t one of the first names that spring to mind when we think of portable media players, but that may change after its Moviebook VDP550T drops this April. Complete with a 5-inch LCD touch screen (800×480-pixel resolution), 8GB of internal memory, microSD expansion, and an HDMI output capable of 1080p resolution, Viewsonic is coming [...]

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