Tag: tech news

IBM Rational have announced a whole list of new (or resurrected?) products combining and complementing the IBM Websphere range of products with the analysis and desig products from acquired company Rational.

There seems to be a large overlap in features between the products – read the descriptions on their site here.

Sun have a awesome demo video on their website of Jonathan Swartz showing their Project Looking Glass technology running, and wow does it look smart – like Mac OS X on steriods!

As far as I have read, the 3D desktop technology runs on J2SE 5.0 with the Java3D and Imaging APIs – the website says its only been tested on Linux so far, so I wonder if it runs on Windows? The developers release is available for download, so I might give it a try.

Intel has scrapped plans to release a 4GHz Pentium CPU by the end of this year, and is instead going to increase performance through increasing cache sizes and data access speeds instead.

Does this signal the true end of the MHz speed wars?

AOL, the owners of Netscape since 1999, are rumored to be working on a new release of the Netscape browser. An annoucement of the strategy is expected in December/January. This is an unusual move because AOL have not leveraged the Netscape brand for a long time, and have recently favored Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the default browser with their AOL portal internet access.

The Netscape browser was created 10 years ago today!