Teradata Offers Hardware/Software Packages For Data Warehousing

By Antone GonsalvesNovember 20, 2008 Teradata is offering a customized package of hardware, software and services for building a data warehouse in four months or less, depending on the business purpose. The Teradata Accelerate bundles are meant to give mid-size companies a quick way to get started in data warehousing.

New levitation technique floats water with noise

Some musical shake, rattle and roll has led Belgian physicists to develop a new kind of levitation. It only works for tiny drops of liquid, but could provide a new way to handle biological or forensic samples without contaminating them. Researchers at University of Lige, Belgium, set out to recreate the way water droplets spilt on speakers danced to the bass vibrations.

Ballmer: We're <em>so</em> over Yahoo!

Steve Ballmer has said again that Microsoft has got over its infatuation with Yahoo! and has moved on. Talking to shareholders yesterday Ballmer said any acquisition talks with Yahoo! were over. Ballmer said he was still open to some kind of deal around search but that nothing was going on right now.

Server virtualization ain't all that...

Immature headline for immature technology? Mini Poll If you listen to a lot of the vendors, server virtualisation is now pretty mainstream, and the impression you get is that its just a case of getting on with it - if you havent done so already.

Invention: Diamond dialysis implant

Kidney failure currently affects around 400,000 people in the US and countless others around the world. And even for people who can access it, plugging into a dialysis machine is a far from an ideal solution. As well as forcing people to structure their lives around the process, dialysis is not as efficient as a real kidney at removing toxic chemicals from the blood...

MusiFind Pro CD/MP3 Edition

This program is for managing your music collection in any format. You can add info automatically from Internet databases, manage MP3 tags, perform multiple searches, customize lookups and track DJ requests and logs.

Remote-control soap mixes oil and water on demand

A kind of chemical remote control has been developed by UK chemists who are able to mix and separate oily and watery fluids on demand. The chemical, which is triggered by light, can also command microscopic nanoparticles suspended in a liquid to neatly separate themselves out for collection. While mixing together two liquids, or mixing a powder into a liquid, is easy...

Passwords Max

Passwords Max (formerly Password Plus) let's you store and retrieve an unlimited number of passwords and related information securely and easily. Features include password generation, file encryption, automatic detection of (and sending to) other applications...

Queenslanders debate cloud computing

The hypothetical question was recently asked to several public sector IT chiefs, including amongst others Chapman, Dr Renato Iannella, principal scientist at National ICT Australia and Paul Summergreene, former CIO of Queensland Transport and Queensland Health. The panel discussed the issue at a recent conference held in Brisbane...

US gives go-ahead for super Wi-Fi

Magazine issue 2682. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. THE contest to exploit the airwaves freed up when the US switches over to digital TV next year has now got some rules. These so-called white space frequencies are valuable because they travel further through the atmosphere and so could hugely extend the range of Wi-Fi services such as mobile broadband and gaming networks.

Six ways to build robots that do humans no harm

With the relentless march of technological progress, robots and other automated systems are getting ever smarter. At the same time they are also being given greater responsibilities, driving cars, helping with childcare, carrying weapons, and maybe soon even pulling the trigger. But should they be trusted to take on such tasks...

Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

What price systems integration? Windows Vista is in more legal hot water and this time the ones getting wet are the companies who've rolled out the operating system, not Microsoft. A series of lawsuits have been brought against major US companies by staff claiming unpaid overtime based on the time it takes Windows Vista to start up and shut down. Mark Thierman...

Cute CD DVD Burner

Cute CD DVD Burner is a powerful and easy dvd utility for CD and DVD burning as well as cloning. By this program, you can create and burn audio and data CDs and DVDs with all files of any format, making bootable DVDs and CDs, building and burning ISO image files, creating multisession discs...

Sun adds Query Analyzer to MySQL

In brief Sun Microsystems has added a query analysis tool to MySQL, but for paying customers only. The Fall '08 upgrade for Sun's subscription-based MySQL Enterprise service includes Query Analyzer, a closed-source tool designed to improve the speed of mySQL database applications. Query Analyzer monitors query performance to help spot problems in SQL code.

Oxygen Phone Manager II

2.18.1.8 is a Wireless Communication product from oxygensoftware.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, Oxygen Phone Manager is the most complete program tool for managing the content and settings of a Nokia cellphone from a personal computer. It is compatible with nearly all currently available models of Nokia and can communicate with the phone through different types of connections: a cable...

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