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By Sylvie Barak | November 19, 2008

When it comes to shooting for the moon and Mars, NASA needs more than just vision and billions in funding, it needs a boost from an astronomically powerful supercomputer, namely one called Pleiades.

By Ian Williams | November 19, 2008

Nearly half of independent software vendors (ISVs) are offering products on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model rather than via traditional product sales, according to hosting firm Rackspace.

By Josie Cox | November 19, 2008

A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Germany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologised on Tuesday for overreacting.

By Tony Dennis | November 19, 2008

There's a good chance that the Symbian user interface specialist UIQ may be taken over by another business, according to the Inquirer.

By Dave Bailey | November 19, 2008

High performance network infrastructure vendor QLogic is to build new quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand switch systems capable of 40Gbit/s through a single port, targeting the burgeoning market for connecting high performance computing clustered systems.

By Paul Taylor | November 19, 2008

Fabless Transmeta, creator of the Crusoe processor, is to be gobbled up by video processor company Novafora, itself a company that 'leads the video processing revolution' (even though it's something of a silent revolution as no-one seems to know anything about the outfit).

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