Microsoft launched a series of new products on Wednesday including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008.
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Windows Server unleashed
Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008, the EU Commission fines Microsoft $1.3B, and more news from the week in technology from the IDG News Service.
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Tech Week in Review – 2/29
Hundreds gathered at Harvard¿s law school on Thursday for an FCC hearing on net neutrality. The FCC is investigating complaints that Comcast has interfered with certain types of web traffic, specifically peer to peer file-sharing.
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FCC grills Comcast
On Tuesday IBM announced its next generation mainframe. Called System z10 it features quad-core processors and is aimed at computing-intensive tasks and increasing datacenter efficiency.
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IBM’s next-gen mainframe
MTI Micro CEO Peng Lim shows off two of the company’s prototype methanol fuel cells in Tokyo. One is a thin fuel cell for integration into a smart phone and the other can fit inside the camera battery grip for a digital SLR camera.
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MTI shows tiny fuel cells
Sony has developed a working prototype hand-powered digital still camera. The camera is the first working concept in its Odo design program that seeks ideas for products for use in areas where the electricity supply is weak or non-existant.
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Powering gadgets through kinetic energy
The European Commission fined Microsoft 899 million Euros, about 1.3 billion dollars on Wednesday for what the competition commissioner called continued failure to honor a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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Microsoft fined $1.3B
Touring the show floor at the Game Developers Conference 2008, senior writer Darren Gladstone tries out the Nintendo Wii Fit and relaxes on the D-Box gaming chair.
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Getting fit via the Wii
Senior Writer Darren Gladstone checks out mobile gaming innovations at the Game Developers Conference 2008.
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Mobile gaming gets cooler
Senior Writer Darren Gladstone tours the Game Developers Conference 2008 and finds a force-feedback helmet, a $3,000 flight simulator and a brainwave-based input device.
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Gaming gear you wear
Sprint’s new Windows Mobile-enabled Ace smartphone from Samsung can keep you connected to the office from just about anywhere on the planet.
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Review: Samsung Ace smartphone
Callpod’s Dragon Bluetooth headset works with your mobile phone but can also pair up with a second Dragon unit to create a full-duplex communications channel between two people.
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A Bluetooth walkie-talkie?
Japan’s C4I, or Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence, system on this tank is capable of automatically sharing information with other tanks nearby — something like a peer-to-peer network formed between the vehicles.
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Tank-to-tank network
Gil Hecht, CEO of Continuity Software, shows where problems in disaster recovery systems can arise and what can be done to guarantee backup systems work when disaster strikes.
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How to ensure disaster recovery systems are really working
