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Cray has been synonymous with supercomputing for decades, but NVIDIA --- there you usually think gaming. However, as GPUs have become more powerful, tasks normally associated with CPUs have been moved to them.

I remember (and this will date me) when the first issues of PC Magazine, founded in 1982, came out. As time progressed, the magazine because huge, pushing 600 pages at the max if I remember correctly (and it's been a while), much of which was advertising. I recall looking at the tome once and trying to figure out how much was actual content.

Malware writers sobbed Tuesday as Microsoft announced that it will cease sales of its security product, Windows Live OneCare, as of June 30th, 2009. Instead, Microsoft announced that it would begin shipping a free product, codenamed "Morro," in the second half of 2009.

On Monday, as scheduled, the One Laptop Per Child's "Give One, Get One" Promotion for 2008 launched, with Amazon.com taking orders and providing the necessary infrastructure that last year's promotion lacked.

What's the first thing my wife does when she can't figure out something, or when there's a problem, no matter how small technology-wise. Yep, she comes to me.

Wau! No, I didn't spell that wrong, that's "wow" in Japanese, and this certainly is "wow" news. While I've been invited to a Monday press conference launching Intel's Core i7 CPU (nee Nehalem), which I've previously written about, Intel effectively pre-empted that event by launching the CPU in stores in Tokyo districts such as Akihabara.

It's been a while since I've written about the Vista-capable lawsuit, the class-action lawsuit that basically alleges that Microsoft knew the term "Vista-capable" wasn't exactly going to hold water for many consumers.

The technology industry, which resisted the economy's growing weakness over the last year as customers kept buying laptops and iPhones, has finally succumbed to the slowdown.

CORRECTION...by Dell Inc. - Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said Friday it has won a competition to design and build the Radarsat Constellation Mission and signed a $40-million for the first phase.

Dismiss The Papermaster Chase, Redux Posted at 11:26 AM PT on November 14, 2008 Oh, it's on now.

A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven ...

An Apple search engine? I hope not By: JR Raphael - PC World A Does Apple intend to get a piece of the search engine action already saturated by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo? Rumors are floating ...

Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc are set to report quarterly results in the most depressed economic climate since the Great Depression, with the outlook for the PC industry rather grim.

Perot Systems Corp. said it has bought almost all the assets of Tellurian Networks Inc., which provides online hosting, back-office technology solutions and networking services for physician groups and other ...

11/14/08 Due to slumping demand for its high-end personal computers, Sun Microsystems Incorporated announced today that they are looking to slash some 6,000 jobs.

Sun Microsystems Inc. says it will cut up to 6,000 of its workers, or 18 percent of its global staff.

Sun also says its software chief, Rich Green, has resigned.

The company has fallen into a deep slump as sales of its high-end servers have collapsed.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said Friday the job cuts will include between 5,000 and 6,000 employees over the next year.

It says the cuts will save $700 million to $800 million annually.

A blog post on the Microsoft-run Channel 10 site has verified that the upcoming Office Web product, which I wrote about earlier --- Office in the browser, in other words --- will work on Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer, on multiple platforms.

You may recall the "Off the Air" Apple ad, which reminded consumers that if necessary, a Mac Genius at an Apple store could transfer their files from their PC to a Mac for them. After all, the ad said, "fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs."

Well, now Belkin is adding fuel to the fire with a cable that purportedly eases the transfer of files and settings from XP or Vista to a Mac.

In a plea deal filed Wednesday, LG Display Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp. , and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd.