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Lenovo preps for grueling Olympic tests

Most of company's hardware will be put to the test next month in an intensive tech rehearsal conducted by the Beijing 2008 organizing committee.

May 29, 2008, 10:34 AM PDT

Citrix rebrands its XenSource spoils

Company discusses its product road map following the acquisition of virtualization vendor XenSource.

February 11, 2008, 12:26 PM PST

Modern PCs to challenge WWII codebreaker

A rebuilt Colossus, a cipher-breaking machine used in World War II, is being pitted against modern computers in a race to break encrypted code.
Photos: A 'Cipher Challenge' for Colossus

November 15, 2007, 9:37 AM PST

Microsoft giving away business search tools

update Software maker slims down SharePoint into a free server-based program for managing corporate search, aiming to take on Google and start-ups.

November 6, 2007, 6:00 AM PST

Virtualization homes in on desktops

Software makers are eyeing more ways the one-computer-as-many approach can help businesses and beyond.

September 17, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT

Getting real about virtualization

roundup VMware hosts a San Francisco conference focused on the multi-OS software technology that's all the rage.

September 13, 2007, 4:38 PM PDT

Parallels making virtualization jump to servers

A company whose virtualization software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market.

September 13, 2007, 3:26 PM PDT

VMware dangles next-gen virtualization goodies

EMC subsidiary demonstrates crash-proofing tech that lets a machine take over where another left off, plus other pies in virtual sky.

September 13, 2007, 11:56 AM PDT

Virtualization: A feature of the hardware, not the OS?

High Impact Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware.

September 10, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT