Archive - Sep 2009

QNAP Systems, a world-class manufacturer of Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers unveiled a unique new network appliance that can best be described as a set-top player crossed with a NAS server. Computer users around the globe face the dilemma of how to centrally store, manage, and playback growing amounts of digital content spread around the home on multiple computers.

NVIDIA announced work with Microsoft to promote NVIDIA Tesla graphics processing units (GPUs) for high performance parallel computing using the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system.

In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving more than 16,000 adult participants in Thailand. Following a final analysis of the trial data, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, the trial sponsor, has announced that the prime-boost investigational vaccine regimen was safe and 31 percent effective in preventing HIV infection.

The new G60J and M60J are the newest notebooks from the ASUS G Series to be powered by the latest Intel Core i7 processor for multi-core, multitasking muscle while on-the-move.

First Data, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing services, and RSA, The Security Division of EMC have teamed up to provide a new service called First Data Secure Transaction Management, which is engineered to enable merchants to secure payment card data and remove it from their environment while allowing access when needed.