Sun has shut the doors on its “game-changing” Rock chip. Sun has been working on the Rock project for more than five years, hoping to create a chip with many cores that would trounce competing server chips from I.B.M. and Intel. The company has talked about Rock in the loftiest of terms and built it [...]
You may be trusting Linux and not even know it. You’ve used it, wether you know it or not. You may play your music on it, you may answer your phone with it. You may watch TV on it. You may or may not know that many storage vendors use Linux under the hood. “If [...]
Apple is set to announce some new products tomorrow at WWDC. The keynote is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. PDT. The general consensus is that iPhone will receive an operating system upgrade, and perhaps, though less certainly, some new hardware. Since this is a developers conference, there is also an expectation that Snow Leopard will be [...]
Consumer Reports weighs in on automakers with uncertain futures. Of course, how good a vehicle is should play a big role in any purchase decision. Currently, we don’t recommend any Chrysler, Dodge, or Jeep vehicles. Should I buy a Chrysler or GM car? Who makes the best cars? On average, Honda continues to make better [...]