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Big Linux systems plot climate change, simulate nuclear explosions, and secure bragging rights. But IT customers are starting to find that high-performance computing technologies make a difference in the real world, from clustered processing to data center greening.

In the news this week: Sumner Redstone speaks out against internet piracy, Microsoft-Yahoo pens its final chapter, WiFi for the sky, a computer is developed from 137 year old plans, hit the golf bar after work, Maker Faire features homemade gadgets and Nokia Siemens shows off a 3G base station.

In this week's show: fake Microsoft job posts, Xerox demos new eco-friendly projects, Dell cuts jobs, Microsoft helps law enforcement, Galileo's second satellite blasts off, Xbox 360 gets a price cut and more!

This anonymous grey box is capable of delivering data to cell phones at speeds that beat the broadband in most homes.

Intel plans to release an anti-theft technology for laptops during the fourth quarter of this year, but the company isn't offering many details yet.

Intel has built two new quad-core processors that run faster than previous quad-core chips without using any additional power, the company announced Tuesday.

IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL.

VMWare said this week that SAP will support its software running on VMWare's ESX Server, in 64-bit Windows and Linux environments.

As adoption of x86 servers increased globally, Unix-based server shipments witnessed a slowdown during the third quarter, a Gartner survey released this week said.

GeoNames is a free and open source geographical database. Primarily for developers wanting to integrate the project into web services and applications, it integrates world-wide geographical data including names of places in various languages, elevation, population, and all latitude / longitude coordinates. Users are able to manually edit, correct and add new names with a user-friendly wiki interface. The data is accessible through a number of webservices and a daily database export.

A rash of hypervisor virtualization announcements recently from Microsoft, Oracle and Sun signal the game is on to beat down leader VMware and jump in the corporate virtualization revolution.