Top 10: Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google woes This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country anxiously watching with sharp memories of Hurricane Katrina, which hit that coast and devastated New Orleans on Aug. 29 three years ago. Also in the news were woes with an Oracle forum upgrade and Google offering credit to paying customers of its online Apps suite, to compensate for three Gmail outages earlier this month. August 29, 2008 2:42 pm PT
Continuent launches open-source database scale-out stack Open-source middleware maker Continuent has launched a database scale-out stack called Tungsten, which supports open-source databases like MySQL as well as proprietary ones from the likes of Oracle. August 29, 2008 10:35 am PT
How to buy a mini-laptop Mini-laptops are among the hottest new products this year and with the back-to-school sales season upon us, I created a list of items to help you choose the right one. August 29, 2008 6:24 am PT
Atom supply still stymied by testing bottleneck Demand for Intel's Atom processor is strong, with computer makers clamoring for more chips to plug into the small, portable laptops called netbooks, but the chips remain in short supply. The problem isn't that Intel can't make enough of the silicon chips -- the company can, and it is -- but availability remains stymied by a testing bottleneck that prevents the chip maker from meeting demand. August 29, 2008 5:49 am PT
Judge finds Qualcomm in contempt of injunction A U.S. federal judge found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction issued last year preventing the chip maker from selling certain products that rely on patented Broadcom technology. August 29, 2008 4:27 am PT
IBM flash memory breaks 1 million IOPS barrier IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that's delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry's fastest disk storage. August 29, 2008 4:16 am PT
Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers Comcast, the largest provider of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., will limit residential customers to 250GB of bandwidth a month beginning Oct. 1, the company announced late Thursday. August 29, 2008 3:55 am PT
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz Apple and China, China and Apple -- this week's quiz is dominated by the inscrutable Mandarins of Cupertino and Beijing. Also on tap: a look at Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, worms enter the space race, Twitter gets in trouble, and Guns N' Roses flexes its muscles. Think you've got the inside skinny on all that? Prove it by scoring 100 on our quiz (10 points for each correct answer). Many try, but only a handful ever attain a perfect score. Now get to it.
August 29, 2008 3:00 am PT
Google introduces Android apps store Google unveiled on Thursday its plans for a store where mobile users can find Android applications, a concept similar to the iPhone's App Store. August 28, 2008 12:54 pm PT
Update: Google extends Apps Premier credit for Gmail outages Due to the three outages that Gmail suffered earlier this month, Google will extend a credit to all paying customers of its hosted Apps suite and has vowed to improve its problem-notification methods. August 28, 2008 11:06 am PT
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