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Furious at a Spanish judge's decision Monday to continue investigating industry, Trade and Labor minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon and five other former top secur...

Health research grants are designed to encourage scientists to pursue bold ideas that could lead to breakthroughsCan tomatoes be taught to make antiviral drugs for people who eat them? Would zapping your skin with a laser make your vaccination work better? Could malaria-carrying mosquitoes be given a teensy head cold that would prevent them from sniffing out a human snack bar?These are among 81 projects awarded $100,000 grants today by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a bid to support innovative unconventional global health research.The five-year health research grants are designed to encourage scientists to pursue bold ideas that could lead to breakthroughs, focusing on ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases, such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and diarrhoeal diseases.The foundation said grant recipient Eric Lam at Rutgers University in new jersey is exploring tomatoes as a antiviral drug delivery system.Researchers at the University of Exeter in Devon will se

The preassembled system is aimed at high-performance computing environments used in scientific research, the oil and gas industry, and the financial industry.

CEO Rod Johnson says he's wanted to bring Hyperic HQ Enterprise systems management in-house since 2007.

There is a glaring omission in Cisco Systems' new Unified Computing System data center initiative: security. With the main focus being on Cisco's entry into a huge new business, little or nothing about security was discussed at the March 16 product launch. Cisco provides the networking for UCS, while a host of partners provide storage hardware, management software, virtualization and other components. But specific security requirements are a mystery. - Cisco Systems made big news March 16 when it boldly announced that it was moving into the full-service data center systems business with its Unified Computing System. But in all the hubbub of the UCS product launch, Cisco left something important out of the conversation: How is security for ...

Cisco provides the networking and a new server for its highly promoted Unified Computing System; EMC and NetApp will provide the storage hardware. BMC brings management software; customers will have a choice of either VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization layers; However, there is a glaring omission: security. With the main news centering around Cisco entering a huge new business, little or nothing on this aspect was discussed at the March 16 product launch. - Cisco Systems, known in its simplest terms as the world's most successful pipefitter for the internet, made big news March 16 when it boldly announced that it was going where no IT networking company had gone before: into the full-service data center systems business. called the Unified Computing...

Supermicro is rolling out several systems that take advantage of Intels energy-efficient Atom processors, which initially were used in the burgeoning netbook space. The Atom chips enable Supermicro to offer highly-efficient and quiet servers or customizable motherboards for such roles as data storage and network ap-pliances or as print and e-mail servers. - Supermicro is putting Intels Atom processor into several new systems in its Server Building Blocks Solutions portfolio. The new Supermicro systems which while their main thrust is as servers, can be customized as motherboards as well will use the 4-watt and 8-watt Atom chips. Intel has been riding...

Apple has nearly $29 billion of cash on hand, a pile of money exceeded only by Cisco Systems when it comes to IT companies. However, that large reserve of cash offers no hint of future plans from the company that has brought consumers the Mac, the iPhone and the iPod. - san francisco (Reuters) - Apple Inc has nearly $29 billion of cash on hand, a pile of money exceeded at only one other tech company, but if the past is any guide stockholders aren't likely to share in the wealth any time soon. The iPod, Mac and iPhone maker does not routinely pay a dividend, ...

Australia'S delay in establishing a national health technology system will hamper efforts to stop the pandemic.

THE wine and beer group has simplified its systems.