Kathleen Lau

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AMD launches energy-efficient Shanghai Opteron EE processor

Chip maker AMD Inc. is touting a focus on efficient performance rather than maximum performance with the release of its lowest-power chip to date, based on the Shanghai core. Analysts weigh in on the AMD-Intel rivalry

What Oracle-Sun means for Java, open source and RIAs

Industry analysts weigh in on what the future holds for Sun Microsystems

App developers could make better use of open source: Black Duck

Black Duck Software Inc. estimates there are 200,000 open source projects representing more than 4.9 billion lines of code that application developers could make better use of. The challenges of seeking and incorporating open source components into a development cycle

Product adoption depends on how it

A new offering this week from NetSuite called SuiteCloud Connect forSAP lets users connect NetSuite data to their existing SAP systems.This way, NetSuite is...

Citrix NetScaler adds Web 2.0 Push to cut data centre costs

Citrix Systems Inc. has integrated a new feature, Web 2.0 Push technology, into its NetScaler product line, designed to alleviate the heavy-lifting caused by resource-hungry online applications

Text mining taps into customer sentiment

When bad economic times are forcing some companies to scale back offerings, text mining can be a useful technology to ensuring the right products are cut, said a Forrester Research analyst. Text mining software vendor Clarabridge discusses the optimum data sources

CygNet upgrade integrates geospatial data for oil and gas sector

Oil and gas customers of CygNet Software can integrate geographically and contextually accurate data from ESRI

U.S. companies attracted to salary subsidies in Montreal

IT recruitment agency Kovasys Inc. has relocated 10 IT professionals to jobs in Montreal in the past six months, where the director of operations said U.S.-based companies are expanding operations. A recession can often mask business activity, said ITAC

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