PC Magazine – Tuesday’s big chip news was the introduction of Intel’s new six-core Xeon 5600 chip, along with new servers based on the chip from Dell, HP, and IBM. While the news itself wasn’t surprising, what it will usher in in terms of server performance bears watching.

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AMD, Intel Bringing More Cores to More Servers
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PC World – Intel introduced a line of Xeon server chips that operate up to 60 percent faster than previous server processors, the company said on Tuesday.

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Intel’s New Xeon 5600 Chips Outperform Predecessors
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InfoWorld – Startup People Power this week is introducing a wireless application development platform that is centered on home deployments and the green technology market, but also can be applied to commercial offices.

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People Power pushes ‘green’ wireless apps
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PC World – The Troyak ISP, which has been linked to the Zeus botnet, was briefly taken down this week. The takedown occurred on the heels of the RSA Conference last week, where there was much talk about the “cat-and-mouse” game of trying to squelch cybercrime. Otherwise, things got a little testy at the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, and iPad pre-orders got rolling. Oh, and the Internet was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously.

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Troyak Takedown, Security Blues, ICANN Meets
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AFP – South Korea said Friday it would launch a probe into security systems of major retailer Shinsegae and 24 other companies after private data on some 20 million customers was leaked.

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S.Korea to probe huge online data leak
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