Stories about: Clipper

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Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7 20 November, 2009 07:30

Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system.
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IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs 15 October, 2009 08:16

IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.
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Archos 9 tablet PC runs Windows 7 04 July, 2009 00:49

Archos has announced that its Windows touchscreen tablet PC - the Archos 9 - will hit the UK this autumn for £450.
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Falcon 09 April, 2009 11:10

Computerworld's investigations into the most widely-used programming languages continues as we chat with Giancarlo Niccolai the creator of the Falcon programming language.
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Beyond batteries: Long-lasting fuel cells are the future 18 July, 2008 08:33

Whether you're talking on a mobile phone, listening to tunes on a media player or typing on a notebook, it's a good bet that the device's battery won't last as long as you'd like. However, that will change over the next few years, as fuel cells designed to power mobile gear start to become common.
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Borderline illegal: Your laptop is not your own 14 February, 2008 11:30

Planning to travel? Maybe you want to think twice about bringing your laptop, your mobile phone, or even that iPod. (And if you're of Asian or Middle Eastern descent, that goes double.)
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Backdoor concern over US crypto standard 19 November, 2007 07:24

The possibility that there is a backdoor in one of the officially recommended random number generators (RNGs) used to create encryption keys, has caused two well-known encryption experts to declare the scheme to be useless.
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Next-gen storage for SMB 01 June, 2007 10:36

It's a simple equation: as data storage needs to grow, so do storage costs. And as the costs for physical space and energy (for both powering up and cooling down the hardware) continue to rise, storage efficiency will become a higher priority. Here are four next-generation technologies that could help.
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Readers throw other technologies on the pyre 28 May, 2007 14:06

Computerworld's list of 10 dead or dying computer skills prompted some readers to submit their own technologies that they felt deserved to be mentioned on the list.
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Clustered NEC arrays scale from gigabytes to a petabyte 11 May, 2007 13:12

Taking a cue from its supercomputing legacy, NEC Corporation of America Wednesday introduced a series of storage arrays that achieve new benchmarks in scalability, performance and availability for the storage vendor by scaling from a terabyte to a petabyte nondisruptively and offering different hard drive classes in the same enclosure.
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When in doubt, buy more storage 24 April, 2007 10:00

Imagine driving a car without a fuel gauge. You have no idea how much fuel is in the tank and worry that you're about to run out, so you stop at every petrol station you see to buy more. Storage managers in data centers have much the same problem.