Stories by Madeleine Acey

IBM puts compact supercomputer out for hire

In an apparent effort to sell massive number crunching facilities to mere companies, rather than national security agencies, nuclear labs and well-funded universities,IBM has created a smaller and less powerful version of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer.

Nokia backs mobile-integrated PBXs

The PBX-to-mobile market is heating up with a Nokia-backed announcement of a "generic" integrator that allows desk phones on leading switchboards to converge with mobiles on any network in any country.

Linux insurance raises eyebrows

Talk about bad timing. Just as The SCO Group Inc. loses its main venture capital investor, seemingly putting another nail in the coffin of its litigious intentions, a start-up launches an insurance scheme to protect Linux users against being sued by the company.

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