Cheap little servers handle so much of the Internet's dirty work that giant computers known as mainframes, which debuted 50 years ago and often cost more than $1 million, are supposed to be passe.
Researchers at IBM say they have developed a new cooling technique for managing the temperature of computer chips. The method entails a new way of spreading thermal paste between hot chips and their heat sinks, making the paste as thin as possible to transport heat from the chip to the cooling components...
A race is on to digitize the world's books, pitting Internet juggernaut Google against a vast anti-Google coalition backed by rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.
Japanese mobile phone carrier Softbank Mobile Corp., which slashed its prices last week to undercut rivals, said it had to stop taking new applications Sunday because it was flooded by new customers wanting to switch to its service.
The horror genre is hot, as indicated by current box office champ "Saw III," and Comcast Corp. plans to capitalize on that popularity with Tuesday's appropriately timed launch of its broadband and video-on-demand channel FEARnet.com.