Virtual Compute Corporation has agreed to use more than 1 million hours of central processing units on Sun Microsystems' Grid Compute Utility.
Sun announced the development earlier this week, saying it's the company's largest grid compute utility deal yet. VCC is using the grid to serve customers in the oil and gas

Uber-auction site eBay has rolled out RSS-based content syndication capabilities to all eBay Stores, letting buyers subscribe to feeds from specific stores and in that way receive new information about items for sale, the San Jose, California, company announced this week.
 
Owners interested in activating this RSS capability on their

More than 150 pilot and commercial deployments of WiMAX networks are currently in use and the first group of certified fixed network products is expected to become available by the end of the year, the president of the WiMAX Forum reported late Thursday.

"WiMAX products are shipping and we expect to see

With holiday shopping season fast approaching, Microsoft Corp. on Friday added comparison-shopping tools to its MSN portal.

The new features stem from collaboration with online shopping sites PriceGrabber.com and Shopping.com, officials with the Redmond, Wash., company said. The partnership has resulted in seven times the number of retailers and 35 times the

One day after hackers released malicious software that used controversial Sony copy-protection software to attack computers, Sony has decided to stop shipping the product, the company said today.
 
Sony has temporarily suspended the manufacture of CDs that contain the software called XCP (Extended Copy Protection) said John McKay, a Sony

Software works with Enterprise SmartDefense Service to protect against spyware
 
Check Point Software Technologies has ratcheted up endpoint security for the enterprise—adding integrated antispyware, secure automatic downloads, instant message (IM) safeguarding and support for the SUSE Novell Linux Desktop to its Integrity software.

That combination gives enterprises

Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and home to screeds by middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.

There's Dad's Tomato Garden Journal, Dogwalk Musings, and, of course, the Oldest Living Blogger.

"It's too easy to sit in your own cave and

New strategy gives leads to partners first, includes deal registration 

F5 Networks is overhauling its channel strategy, now pledging to turn every sales lead over to a partner before its own field-sales force.

The vendor also plans to give top-level partners access to its Salesforce.com database and is launching a

Suppliers are working hard to bring high-speed interconnection technologies from supercomputing sites to the more mundane realm of corporate data centers. And if consumers aren't ready for the migration -- and it seems quite a few are not -- they'll have to find ways to fight off a major pitchfest.
 
The

Mozilla Corp. rolled out the second release candidate of Firefox 1.5, and unlike the first such preview, users reported that the update went smoothly.
 
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), likely the last version before the final is unveiled, updated automatically for users of earlier 1.5 editions without problems, unlike