The Web is a pretty nasty place, according to reverse engineer and privacy advocate Mike Perry -- and he should know.
Cloud computing has emerged as the next evolution for grid architectures. At least part of the early success of the cloud model is due to virtualisation – and mainframe makers like IBM still claim bragging rights for creating the hypervisor. iTnews sat down with IBM Fellow for Server Design, Jim Rymarczyk, to pry into Big Blue’s plans in the cloud.
Technological convergence has shaped many aspects of today’s world, from the creation of medical technologies to devastating events like 9/11, according to U.S. physicist and science fiction author Stanley Schmidt.
U.S. economists have launched a book that claims to document the first systematic analysis of the economics of protecting cyberspace.
Microprocessors from portable electronics like iPods could yield low-cost, low-power supercomputers for specialised scientific applications, according to computer scientist John Shalf.