The Senate voted 61-37 to pass the legislation, pushed by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Senate version of the bill, however, cut spending on a smart electricity grid project and on health IT
Though Measurementlab.net, the online search company will offer a network diagnostic tool so users can figure out if their ISP is putting their traffic on the back burner.
After chalking up a loss of about 3.5 million mobile phone customers from 2007 to 2008, Sprint Nextel says it will slash some 8,000 positions by the end of March this year
With only a few days left before George Bush leaves to make way for Barack Obama, comes a report that more than 5 million e-mails over a nearly a three-year period covering the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the devastation by Hurricane Katrina has gone missing. White House staff workstations and other storage devices will be searched following a lawsuit filed by two watchdog groups
The President-Elect wants every American doctor and hospital to have electronic health records and plans to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Get the details on Obama
New systems runs at processing speeds of four teraflops, or four trillion floating point operations per second but cost 100 times cheaper that grid computers