A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis on hacking charges. The warrant was issued January 28 after French anti-doping authorities accused Landis of hacking into one of their laboratory computers, Pierre Boudry, the president of France’s anti-doping agency, the Agence Francaise de Lutte contre le Dopage, told Reuters [...]

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How do management tools fit into your company’s server virtualization strategy? If you can’t answer that question, don’t feel too bad — you have a lot of company. This week, InformationWeek contributor Michael Healey takes a long, hard look at what he calls the “back side of the virtualization wave.” It might be more appropriate [...]

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SMBs can use a .tel address to put all their contact information in one accessible, mobile-friendly location and easily organize and update it. The .tel domain was established last March as a way for individuals and businesses to publish all their contact information at one easy-to-remember address — businessname.tel, for example. When customers call up [...]

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It seems that every day we go online and there’s some new type of nagging Web annoyance to deal with. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to worry about auto-playing video ads, leaping pay walls to read the news, fake emails phishing for our bank details, or Farmville spam from Facebook. But for now, [...]

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For most of us, sitting down in front of a computer for work or play is a pretty simple affair. But for people who are blind, paralyzed or otherwise physically disabled, using a computer can be an exercise in frustration. However, a new generation of gadgets, gizmos and software is making it easier for disabled [...]

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Apple released Pro level Photo editing and organizing application Aperture 3 last week [1] promising the “faces and places” of consumer level iPhoto as well as some new high end features [2] that professionals could use. What a lot of those Pro users got, unfortunately, was a frozen computer and an “out of disk space” [...]

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Male great bustards have developed a trick to make their elaborate mating displays even more alluring to females, a study suggests. The large birds lift and point their bottoms towards the Sun, say scientists, making their bright white tail feathers more conspicuous. The behaviour makes them more visible to females, say the scientists. The Behavioral [...]

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Scientists say they have confirmed that a meteorite that crashed into earth 40 years ago contains millions of different organic compounds. It is thought the Murchison meteorite could be even older than the Sun. “Having this information means you can tell what was happening during the birth of the Solar System,” said lead researcher Dr [...]

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Intel’s new Xeon C5500/C3500 series is aimed at dense data center environments for embedded devices, networking and storage. The new chips, once known as “Jasper Forest,” include integrated PCIe and I/O features, and consume 27 watts less than the Xeon 5500s used in servers. Intel is bringing its “Nehalem” Xeon architecture to the embedded, networking [...]

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Don’t be shocked if you can’t find your favorite salad dressing or mouthwash on your next trip to Wal-Mart. Large retailers — including Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world’s biggest — are wrestling with having too many types of brand-name products. At the same time, shoppers are buying less and looking for bargains. So unless [...]

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