Stories about: Fireworks

New test results coming in from the Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that Martian soil may not be so akin to Earth's after all.

Yahoo was criticized by some shareholders on Friday for the way it handled Microsoft's attempted acquisition, but in the end there were fewer fireworks at its annual meeting of stockholders than some had expected.

With security researchers set to reveal details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference next week, Apple now has fewer than seven days to patch a critical vulnerability in the product.

A severe shortage of local Web application developers is making it increasingly difficult for companies to hire staff for eBusiness and Web-based projects. Meanwhile, the lucky few with relevant skills are netting in correspondingly healthy salary packages, claims one IT recruitment agency.

A huge 100,000-PC grid-computing network being built to help research the origin of the universe passed the third of four major tests recently when it reached a data-transfer milestone, with up to 1GB/sec. of physics data sent over the global grid.

In separate launches just eight days apart, AMD and Apple sent up fireworks celebrating their new arrivals. AMD started shipping its dual-core Opteron and Athlon 64 X2 server and desktop processors on April 21. Apple began delivering OS X Tiger (10.4) on April 29, but I got my box on April 28, which means it shipped on April 27. So these things really happened six days apart. Uncanny coincidence, that.

The stage is set for some fireworks on the last day of the JavaOne show next week, where Sun Microsystems has assembled a panel to debate the thorny issue of whether it should release its Java technology under an open source license.

The secret of good advertising and marketing is to get other people to talk about your message, but to do so in a way that makes them think positively about your product.

With the race to make faster and better performing chips, Nicholas Petreley explains that both AMD and Intel could go a long way by optimising their performance under Linux.

Now that the much anticipated Linux kernel 2.4 is available, the question remains how will the major distributions and hardware vendors adopt the new software? Joe Barr from LinuxWorld US finds some answers.