Not a killer app with quite the cache of email or text messaging but if predictions that before the end of this decade we will create as much data as the entire human race did in its existence hitherto, then data storage could be the challenge...
Scientists have successfully mapped the folding sequence of proteins using the shared power of a distributed network of thousands of computers. This model of computing was made famous by the SETI@Home experiment, whose ongoing mission is to seek...
Acceptance of Jini may be fuelled by the popularity of web services technology, which seeks to solve many of the problems that the Sun software is well-suited to handling, according to analysts. Such "distributed systems" can be difficult to manage...
For more than a decade, corporations have erected digital perimeters to keep outsiders off their networks. There isn't one technology that will solve this problem," Oltsik said. In one case, Apple is suing two men it says distributed pre-release...
A lot of time and money has been spent looking for a single "silver bullet" system, he said: "It needs to be a family of complementary solutions, fielded to different degrees by different nations that can work together.
Mr Offield - nice idea but how are you going to get one installed in every vehicle currently on the road, then how are you going to prevent the owners of those vehicles from disabling the jammers and finally who will pay for the device and its...