Stories by: Bob Brown

Google on Thursday said its enterprise search appliance will now show relevant Twitter posts alongside internal and external search results.

We asked Peter Goolpacy and the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year for their assorted mistakes and misdeeds. The following contains their reviews of the apologies and their ratings of the apologies on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best.

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN). 

Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

Steve Perlman, CEO of a company called OnLive that's readying an on-demand video game service, cringes whenever Google's gmail or other high profile Web services conk out. After all, his company's bold plan is to offer streamed access to a slew of brand name video games via the cloud in such a way that users at their PCs and TVs get performance they're used to experiencing on consoles.

In light of Google's buyout this week of Carnegie Mellon University spinoff ReCAPTCHA, it seems like a good time to take a spin back through Google's more notable buyouts over the years. Wikipedia lists 55 of them, and given Google's sometimes mysterious ways, there are no doubt a few that didn't make the public list.

University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center networks massively scalable.

esearchers from the University of Minnesota have outlined a way to use “distributed voluntary resources – those donated by end-user hosts – to form nebulas” that would potentially complement today’s managed clouds from companies such as Amazon, IBM and Google.

Side-by-side Windows displays might be the last thing you would expect to see taking center stage at Red Hat's booth at the recent Interop show in Las Vegas. But it makes sense when you consider they were part of a demo showcasing the company's pursuit of what it sees as a huge opportunity: the emerging virtual desktop market.