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Verizon to Start Selling Niagara in May

Research In Motion's BlackBerry Niagara has made the headlines a few times recently, as some more leaked photos of the device, as well as a video and a series of hands-on impressions surfaced to the Web. Among the rumors that surrounded the device there were some that suggested the handset might be added to Veri...

20 March 2009
07:39 GMT

Hands-On with Pre-Released BlackBerry Niagara

The BlackBerry Niagara 9630 has made the headlines quite a few times over the past couple of days, yet this time it seems that there are some more palpable pieces of information on the handset. To be more specific, a pre-released device has made it into the wild, so it has already been caught both on the camera and o...

18 March 2009
13:49 GMT

BlackBerry Niagara Pictures and Video Emerge

The BlackBerry 9630 Niagara was leaked to the Web recently in a new series of photos, following the first images that surfaced earlier this month. At the same time, a video featuring the CDMA-equipped mobile phone is also available for those who would like to have a glimpse at how the device looks and moves. The new...

16 March 2009
05:10 GMT

BlackBerry “Niagara” to Come to Verizon as a World Edition

It seems that BlackBerry “Niagara,” highly expected to reach two mobile phone carriers this year, namely Sprint and Verizon, is heading our way quite fast, although not in the manner we would have expected it to. While Sprint will only unveil the device sometime in the second half of the year, Verizon wil...

2 March 2009
09:38 GMT

Details on Sprint BlackBerry Niagara Surface

It seems that Sprint subscribers will have to wait a little before being able to enjoy the BlackBerry Niagara mobile phone that was rumored at a certain moment to come to the carrier sometime this quarter. The latest news on the Web report that a Sprint engineer has confirmed the fact that the handset is heading towa...

2 March 2009
03:17 GMT

Sprint Rumored to Launch BlackBerry Niagara This Quarter

According to the latest news on the web, Sprint is about to replace its BlackBerry 8830 with a new CDMA version of the Bold. The replacement is rumored to take place this quarter, and there are some voices saying that this would be an expected move on the part of the company, given the fact that the Bold comes essent...

5 January 2009
04:18 GMT

Sun Adds Some Muscle to the Netra Server Lineup

Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems introduced an UltraSparc T2 rack-mount server pitched at telecommunications companies: the Sun Netra T5220. The server has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, and comes with the Solaris 10 operating system. The Sparc T2 processor is built on the Niagara arc...

14 February 2008
11:13 GMT

Sun to Acquire Desktop Virtualization Company for Recycling

Sun Microsystems has just announced that it has acquired German desktop virtualization vendor Innotek GmbH. The deal is the first step in a Sun's developing its own xVM server virtualization platform. Virtualization seems to be more than a buzzword and is constantly gaining popularity with businesses, as it offe...

13 February 2008
06:25 GMT

Sun Lays $1 Million Prize for Open Source Software Developers

Sun Microsystems have announced that they have initiated a new program for independent software developers, awarded with $1 Million prize. The participants will have to contribute to Sun's open source software projects. The announcement was made last week in Bangalore by Sun's chief open-source officer, Sim...

14 December 2007
04:52 GMT

Sun Open-sources Their UltraSPARC T2 processor

Sun Microsystems is going to make public the eight-core UltraSPARC T2 processor specifications as part of their OpenSPARC initiative. The processor, code-named "Niagara 2" has been launched in August 2007 and is what the company calls "Sun's signature chip."Sun is releasing the processor's specifications in...

12 December 2007
06:21 GMT

Sun Goes for More Cores and More Threads

After the successful launch and warm market welcome of the latest processor from Sun that is intended as a server workhorse, the company announced that it is working on a new version of the T2 CPU that is aimed at two and four way servers.According to information released by Sun and cited by the news site vnunet.com,...

23 August 2007
09:13 GMT

Sun's Multicored, Multithreaded Monsters

Apart form being the major Java language developer and maintainer, Sun Microsystems has a stake in computer hardware as well. Their computer architecture is not x86 compatible as it is designed to use the SPARC and UltraSPARC chips. The latest supercomputers from Sun, named generically Niagara and Rock are very impre...

28 July 2007
04:31 GMT

Sun and Fujitsu Sitting in a Tree

In the server business market, Sparc processors have been around since the dawn of ages, but there have always been other competitors that took away from the processors' pride, there was IBM's Power PCs, Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron processors that put out a good fight, just enough for people to...

17 April 2007
12:02 GMT


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