 Software: serious games in virtual worlds December 06, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Serious games are designed not to entertain, but to teach. Students learn by doing, and games range from simulating medical procedures to promoting peace in Palestine. Now European researchers are developing ... | |
NEC Develops Software to Give Companies Competitive Edge December 04, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
NEC has developed a software that will aid companies in essential decision making for releasing new products. In addition, the software will monitor and analyze a company´s competitors products and services to keep up with ... | |
Intel Upgrades Software Tools to Support Mac OS X Leopard November 28, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Intel Corporation today announced an upgrade of its popular software tools suite for Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major version of Apple's advanced operating system. The latest 10.1 version of the Intel C++ Compiler and Intel ... | |
Security loophole found in Windows operating system November 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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A group of researchers headed by Dr. Benny Pinkas from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Haifa succeeded in finding a security vulnerability in Microsoft's "Windows 2000" operating system. | |
UCI Innovation for Developers: Cut to the Action CodeGenie November 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A brilliant innovation by graduate students of the University of California, Irvine. The CodeGenie will cut down on hours of painstaking search and filter. It is an Eclipse plugin that searches Open Source code and its results ... | |
New program verifies data center energy savings November 05, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new program from IBM will help companies verify their data centers’ energy use and reduction -- and earn potentially money-saving, energy efficiency certificates. | |
New software advances photo search and management in online systems October 15, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Searching for digital photographs could become easier with a Penn State-developed software system that not only automatically tags images as they are uploaded, but also improves those tags by "learning" from users' interactions ... | |
Software overcomes major problems for scientists who operate research tools over the Internet October 10, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Software under development at Ohio State University is helping scientists operate big-budget research instruments -- such as high-powered microscopes and telescopes -- over the Internet, more safely and efficiently than was ... | |
 Generating 'oohs' and 'aahs': Vocal Joystick uses voice to surf the Internet October 09, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The Internet offers wide appeal to people with disabilities. But many of those same people find it frustrating or impossible to use a handheld mouse. Software developed at the University of Washington provides ... | |
 New NEC Technology Isolates Viruses At the Core October 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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NEC has developed a new technology for spotting, isolating and stopping viruses at the core level of its multi-core CPU. Thus, the system keeps running, while the infected core is disabled while a fix is developed ... | |
IBM offers free office software suite September 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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IBM is releasing IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The tools can be downloaded at no charge. | |
2007 looks like year of 'malware' September 18, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The problem of malicious software or malware appears to be getting exponentially worse. So far this year, IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) X-Force research and development team has identified more than 210,000 new malware ... | |
AMD Delivers Significant Graphics Performance for Linux Users September 06, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
AMD today announced plans to extend its leadership position in graphics software with major enhancements to performance and compatibility for ATI Radeon graphics for consumer Linux users. | |
 IBM Ships Lotus Notes and Domino 8 August 17, 2007 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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IBM announced that after two years in development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world, Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 will be generally available today, Friday, August 17. IBM Lotus ... | |
AMD Releases Specification Designed to Enable Real-Time Performance Optimization for Software Applications August 14, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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AMD today made available a new specification describing “Light-Weight Profiling” (LWP), a technology designed to increase the performance of software applications by providing a mechanism that allows software to more effectively ... | |
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