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Advanced Micro Devices has thrown down the gauntlet to graphics rival Nvidia, unveiling a graphics card that runs two graphics chips.

Just days after details of a critical bug in the Domain Name System (DNS) software went public, researchers released attack code that can silently redirect users to unintended sites.

Changes were made to OOXML between Ecma's approval a year and a half ago and ISO's approval this spring. Microsoft won't support the ISO version until Office 14 arrives around the end of 2009. Is this a big deal, as Microsoft critics such as Andy Updegrove claim?

After a nine-month, 422-million-mile trip from Earth that began last August, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will catch up to the red planet within hours to begin its three-month science mission.

With the recent release of version 4.0, the KDE open source project has garnered a lot of international attention. One of KDE's lead developers, and best known personality, Aaron J Seigo is in Australia to speak at this year's Linux.conf.au on his vision for better desktop computing. Computerworld spoke with Seigo, a native of Calgary, Canada, about his view of the world and how a little bit of innovation will permanently change how people interact with software.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip.

Open-source database vendor Ingres Wednesday named Infor Global Solutions as its first ERP (enterprise resource planning) partner since Ingres spun off from CA over a year ago.

It might be heresy to try to manage a Linux server from a Microsoft platform . But that is what QCD Microsystems has attempted with its InterStructures Microsoft Management Console (MMC)-based series of applets. With these plug-ins, Linux services such as DHCP, DNS, SAMBA and Squid Web proxy (and soon Apache 2.0), are managed from the familiar look and feel offered by the MMC. Our tests showed that the InterStructures modules are simple to install, and provide a single, convenient, drag-and-drop interface to manage a combined Windows/Linux infrastructure.

In this interview, Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Mandrakesoft, talks about the success they've had over the past year...and how they plan to build upon it.

While most eyes were on Tiger Woods at the PGA Tour's Buick Classic this weekend, Jonathan Kaye also had more than his usual share of followers.