By Jacqueline Emigh , Betanews On news of its best financial quarter in company history, Sybase celebrated this week by officially rolling out a new edition of its enterprise database. The new Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.5 , which shipped in December 2009, is the first product from Sybase to be shipped with an in-memory database (IMDB), an emerging alternative to disk-based databases which has already been adopted by competitors Oracle and IBM[......]
Archive for January, 2010
Like certain other “ episodes †we’ve been impatiently anticipating for quite some time, GTA IV’s two after-dinner mints have taken nearly as long to arrive as the main course. But at least GTA IV has a good (ish) reason. [......]
We don’t want to jump the gun here, but we think there just might be something to this whole “Steam†business after all . [......]
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Funny, how almost all computer cases are boxes. They can be anything, yet they still are boxes. Except for the clever few who amaze us with their case modding skills[......]
  Email goes back a long way. And so too, perhaps, do your archives. [......]
All the elements of Modern Warfare, with 30 percent less fun There are a few signature characteristics of Call of Duty games—at least, the ones developed by series-creator Infinity Ward. First, the games feel real. The story unfolds as you play through a conflict as a few normal soldiers—regular guys on the ground who find themselves thrust into extraordinary events. [......]
Don't count Nintendo president Satoru Iwata among the Apple faithful ready to snatch up an iPad as soon as it becomes available. Judging by the majority of reader comments in our news coverage earlier this week, Iwata's as unimpressed with the tablet as the rest of you. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews One of the principal factors behind Facebook's revision of its privacy policies has been said to be a formal complaint filed by the office of Canada's Privacy Commissioner last July[......]
Micro-management just isn't Microsoft's thing. [......]
It doesn't matter that the newly announced Apple iPad tablet won't be available for another two months (three months for the 3G models), vendors have no intention of waiting to cash in on what's destined to be a hot selling product. Take iLuv, for example, who on Thursday unveiled a new line of colorful cases and sleeves[......]
Ready or not, six-core computing is coming , and it's coming from both sides of the tracks. [......]
After all this time, there still remains room for innovation in the magnetic tape industry. [......]
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.5, the latest version of Sybase's top-of-the-line database software, is also the first version capable of running entirely in memory. "In-memory DBMS is an important dimension of the DBMS landscape, and will become more so in the coming years," said Carl Olofson , Vice President of Research at IDC[......]
Alienware is not usually known for building energy efficient systems. The amount of time you can keep a gaming laptop running is best measured in minutes[......]
