Unix is probably the grandfather of all operating systems, widely used on dedicated servers and workstations, and has spawned a variety of different official and unnofficial* versions. Many of us have fought with the command prompt as it constantly blinks away, every so often mocking our efforts with that unmistakable error sound. Love it or [...]
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the second largest producer of global dedicated server processors, needed to come up with an answer to Intel’s Core i7 processor, and it had to be on schedule. Back in 2006, AMD’s market share peaked at about 25%, and it was Intel that was scrambling to maintain its dominance in the [...]
The business world is in the middle of some of the biggest changes in its existence with internet presence increasingly becoming a must, and in many cases becoming a bigger source of income than bricks and mortar. At the same time, technology is rapidly developing and the skills needed to create suitable solutions are becoming [...]
Amidst the news about bailouts, layoffs, mortgage foreclosures, and declining earnings, you may have heard the ‘R’ word – that’s right, recession. At this point, I don’t think anyone is arguing that we aren’t in a global recession; traditionally, two down quarters in a row is used as the benchmark for indicating the economy is [...]
It’s been more than 10 years now since the boys from Mountain View opened up shop, and (almost) ever since then, Redmond has been trying to catch-up with the search giant known as Google. Microsoft has made a variety of different attempts to try and make this work, from MSN Search to Windows Live Search [...]
Do you tweet? Well, Superb does! Twitter, one of the most popular social media sites (at least for now), is a free micro-blogging platform that allows users to post real-time updates of what they are doing – called ‘tweets’. There is a whole new language developing from Twitter, and there’s even a Twittonary! Come follow [...]
