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Convolve Inc. this week filed a federal lawsuit this week charging that Dell Inc. , Western Digital Corp. and Hitachi Global storage Technologies Inc. have violated its patents for vibration control techniques in hard drives and PCs.In the complaint filed Wednesday in US District Court in Marshall, Texas, Convolve alleges that PC maker Dell and hard drive manufacturers Western Digital and Hitachi used its patented techniques that allow a device to move an object quickly with minimal vibration.Armonk, N.Y.-based Convolve alleges that the three firms violated two patents that were issued to the firm in 2001.Officials from Dell and Hitachi Global storage Technologies could not be reached for comment Friday. A Western Digital spokesman said the company will "defend itself vigorously against these allegations" but declined any further comment citing the pending litigation.Representatives at Convolve could not be immediately reached for comment.In the papers filed in the court, Con

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Analyst house Evans data has released statistics showing that less than one in ten developers are writing applications for Microsoft's Vista operating system..

Software experts at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver are now doubling efforts to save more of the mission's data.

PC World - A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design a smart card that offers stronger protection of personal data.

Sun has released a new real-time, shared-nothing, carrier-grade version of MySQL called MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3 certified for use in telecom environments, such as subscriber data management systems (hlr, hss) and service delivery platforms.

Network convergence, virtualisation and green technology will be drivers. The data centre is set to change radically in the future. It will be shaped in three areas: network convergence; advanced energy efficiency techniques such as water cooling; and 'hyper consolidation' involving both virtualisation and blade servers, according to blade server group, Blade.org.

What made the Ameritrade data breach particularly memorable was not that 6.3 million customers had their personal info compromised and inboxes stuff with spam as a result. No, what made it memorable was that the company had received multiple warnings from IT professionals over more than a year that its database had been compromised -- yet took no action before the bits hit the fan last fall.

Rising energy costs nudge telecoms into pursuing green data center gear.

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Friday 20 June 2008 at 22:51:00Fewer than one in 10 building for OSFewer than one in 10 developers are writing applications for Microsoft's Vista operating system, according to new statistics from analyst house Evans data....