Stories about: Interface Technology

Microsoft continued telling the open source interoperability story it began crafting last month by adding partnerships around support of document formats and user interface technology.

In a world where Web-based applications have dominated the discourse lately, does the desktop still matter?

Even if text editors have been prominent in AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development, developers nonetheless would benefit from an IDE, panelists agreed at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Wednesday.

Sun Microsystems has said it is thinking about offering some of its Java Enterprise System (JES) under an open source license, although no final decisions have been made.

Now that the SATA (Serial ATA) interface has proven its merit with solid industrywide support, storage vendors are turning their attention to the next big thing in disk interface technology, the forthcoming SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface. SAS is expected to deliver quicker connectivity, lower implementation costs for storage and server vendors, and dual port capabilities for redundancy. SATA, meanwhile, has carved a valuable niche providing in-line secondary storage.

Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems, spoke with Computerworld at the company's recent JavaOne conference about the possibility of Java becoming an open-source technology and other issues.

Fresh off its reprieve from fraud charges regarding memory technology, Rambus Inc. will provide details on a new parallel interface bus for on-chip connections between components at the Spring Intel Developer's Forum in San Jose, California.

The faces of kids and adults light up the first time they see Sony Corp.'s Aibo or Honda Motor Co. Ltd.'s Asimo robots as the robots' demeanor and life-like movements bring a smile to almost every face. But wait a second. Cute as they are, whatever happened to The Jetson's ideal of an army of robots to do our cleaning, water our plants and wash our car?

Intel was once the leading advocate for RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic RAM), but on Friday its executives declined to confirm whether its future chipsets would support the high-speed memory interface technology, saying Rambus is not the current first choice of consumers.