IT guru Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and co-founder of Netscape Communications, is splashing out on a $30m yacht. The system uses 20 Silicon Graphics computers, a server, 37 miles of network cable and can store 500 billion bytes of...
Silicon Graphics has posted a loss of $44m for the quarter ending 30 September. Turnover was $616m, down from $768m for the same period last year. In a statement, chairman Richard Belluzzo said: "Reporting a loss is never satisfying, but I am very...
The acquisitions are part of CA's bid to add further graphics functionality to its flagship Unicenter TNG systems management product and its Jasmine pure object database software. Computer Associates (CA) has bought two companies - 3Name3D and...
Longhorn, the next major version of Windows for desktop PCs, will debut in 2005 and will usher in a new level of graphics for PCs, Microsoft executives said on Wednesday. While Microsoft plans to release "a couple of beta" versions of Longhorn in...
The Windows Presentation Foundation uses DirectX to take advantage of your 3D graphics hardware to convert the 2D windows surfaces into textures that can be rendered onto the desktop. It's been called DirectX 10, Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0...
Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these "go against the open-source philosophy", but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk after his presentation, Jaaksi said Nokia was...