The Pirate Bay has announced it has now gotten rid of its physical servers in favor of putting its data in some kind of cloud server set up, although it is rather vague in terms of details. More...

A judge ruled today that the all the parties involved in the MegaUpload case must work together to come up with an agreement to preserve the data on the file sharing site's servers. More...

In a new blog post, the team behind the file sharing website The Pirate Bay claim that they are considering plans to place some of their servers on unmanned airborne drones. More...

Today the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) added the top level domain .xxx to the root nameservers in preparation for the full launch. A few domains are already resolving, such as SEX.xxx and XXX.xxx, with... More...

According to Gigaom, the worlds most popular social networking site -- Facebook -- has opened up its data centres and servers by releasing a tonne of previously unknown information. During a news event earlier on... More...

This week, Neowin got a chance to visit Dell in Austin Texas for their OEM conference. We got the opportunity to meet a lot of the engineers behind the scenes of Dell and learn about... More...

Gizmodo has posted a visual representation from Intac showing the approximate number of dedicated servers that major tech companies own. When you speak in terms of numbers, it becomes hard to comprehend just how large... More...

With China's views on the Internet becoming ever more unpopular with western companies, another Internet giant has decided to halt its business in China, according to PC World. The world's leading domain registrar, GoDaddy, has... More...

One of the HP exhibits that caught my eye today wasn't one of the flashiest, didn't have a swag line a mile long, but what it did have was two very interesting pieces of equipment... More...

Neowins previous web servers host, ThePlanet based in Dallas Texas, suffered a major setback yesterday as an electrical fire allegedly caused an explosion, knocking out around 9000 of their customers hosted websites. Marcus Langenveld writes:... More...

Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers, exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is... More...

A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful because its break-in method makes use of an automated password and installation process, according to a security researcher... More...

Dell (NSDQ:Dell) wants its piece of the fast-growing blade server market, and is introducing a new blade server line and channel training and certification to make it happen. Dell, Round Rock, Texas, on Monday unveiled... More...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a honeybee dance-inspired communications system, which they claim helps Internet servers work more efficiently. The new system reduces the possibility of a web site's becoming overwhelmed... More...

According to security firm Marshal, spammers are using YouTube's servers and the service@youtube.com address to send massive quantities of unsolicited email, which appear to derive from the video-sharing site's 'Invite Your Friends' feature. The emails... More...

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has announced that seven servers part of the eDonkey file-sharing network were shut down this week in Germany after a court granted injunctions. The servers in Germany were... More...

Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system. Within 90 days, Sun will offer Windows Server 2003 on... More...

The 2-way server market can expect a boost of holiday season cheer in the fourth quarter as Intel is lining up to launch 12 new processors based on its latest 45nm designs, according to sources... More...

Intel will position its 65nm-based Dual-Core Xeon 5100 sequence (Woodcrest) and Quad-Core Xeon 5300 sequence (Clovertown) series processors as the main force in the 2-way server market in 2007, and will not begin introducing its... More...

Intel seems to be on the rebound not only on the desktop side of the picture, but the server side as well. Google has begun buying Intel server components in high volume, Pat Gelsinger, a... More...

Sun Microsystems and Intel will hold a joint press conference at 10 a.m. today to announce a ``landmark alliance,'' Sun said this morning. It's likely the news will be that Sun, the Santa Clara-based maker... More...

Microsoft has released early beta versions of its "Cougar" upgrade of Small Business Server and "Centro," a new integrated server suite for midsize businesses. Both products are x64-only and are scheduled to ship in 2008,... More...

Well now, EA is sure to make some fans very happy after this one. Apparently EA is shutting down a boatload of servers for several PC and console games. Some of the games are quite... More...

From the company that brought you the HP iPod, now witness the invincible server. HP is showing off the features on their 'StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array', which claims to offer resilient service - whatever happens.... More...

IBM plans to unveil Tuesday a line of small- and midsize-business Unix servers based on its own dual-core Power5 processor. The new servers will use the IBM's existing Power5 as well as the... More...

A startup on Tuesday unveiled plans at the Apple Expo here to build a distributed supercomputer cluster that could use some thousands of Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve servers. The high-performance network will be installed along... More...

Sun introduced its new "industry-standard" 64-bit server line today in New York City. The company hopes that its new AMD based server series will compete with server market giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Sun... More...

In a scan of 2.5 million DNS (Domain Name System) servers, which act as the White Pages of the Internet, security researcher Dan Kaminsky found that approximately 230,000 DNS servers could be vulnerable to a... More...

A decision by the United States to indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that control internet traffic drew concerns Friday from foreign officials, many of whom want an international body in charge instead. ... More...

Hewlett-Packard will supply its Integrity servers to network services provider Intrado, which is upgrading the 911 emergency dialing service in the U.S., the companies said in a statement on Wednesday. Intrado is developing... More...

Microsoft is migrating many of its internal servers to the new 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003, but concedes its 64-bit desktop product remains a work in progress. Danny Beck, Microsoft Windows... More...

Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2,... More...

IBM next month will start powering its blade servers with Intel Corp.'s low-voltage version of its "Nocona" processor, a move designed to reduce the energy consumption and heat generated by the dense-form-factor systems. Using the... More...

eWeek reports that spammers' latest tactics are causing problems for the very backbone of the internet. They're sending out e-mails pretending to be from non-existent domain names, in an attempt to disguise their true identities.... More...

A flood of data has hammered several of the tracking servers for BitTorrent downloads, according to LokiTorrent, a Torrent network hub. The attacks apparently targeted the central BitTorrent directories used by people... More...

The ubiquitous banner ad has become the latest delivery mechanism for exploit code targeting a known flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser. During a 12-hour window over the weekend, hackers broke into a load... More...

When Office 12 debuts in 2006+, an Excel Server, Visio Server and other brand-new servers are expected in the line-up. Microsoft has been holding its Office 12 cards close to the vest.... More...

HP claims to have launched the storage industries most powerful storage solution. The HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array was setup in partnership with technology from Hitachi. HP is also making a bold claim to have... More...

As promised, Electronic Arts has now released a new patch for Battlefield Vietnam, updating the 3D multiplayer action game by Digital Illusions to version 1.1.14. This hefty release adds the new "Defense of Con Thien"... More...

Security researchers warned Web surfers on Thursday to be on their guard after uncovering evidence that widespread Web server compromises have turned corporate home pages into points of digital infection. The researchers believe that online... More...

Microsoft Corp. has begun offering free software licensing for "cold servers" or networking computers that are kept off until they are needed, the world's largest software maker said on Friday. The new feature, part of... More...

Intel will work with CollabNet to release open-source code designed to make the boot-up process for PCs and servers more predictable and faster. Under the collaboration, Intel will release a driver development... More...

IBM officially introduced its heavily anticipated Power5 server line on Monday. As previously reported, the servers are the first generation of boxes using IBM's new Power5 processor, a 64-bit chip meant to compete... More...

It sounded like a good idea: Instead of dribbling out a fix here and a patch there, release all your security fixes once a month, in a few, fairly easily digestible bundles. But with more... More...

Dell Computer Corp. has no plans to develop Opteron servers "today," contradicting a French report that Dell officials said misquoted founder Michael Dell. French IT publication o1net quoted Micahel Dell as saying, "Quant à savoir... More...

Thanks xStainDx. The Dell PowerEdgeTM 700 and 750 servers offer high performance and highly expandable formats in single-processor, general-purpose servers that are designed for cost-sensitive, small and medium-sized businesses. The 700 is a tower server... More...

Online servers running Linux were attacked more often in January than those running Windows, according to a security firm. Linux advocates often take pride in the operating system being more secure than Windows but this... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday rolled out new, faster computer servers starting at about $2,800 and updated software as the network computer makers seeks to tap into modestly improving spending on information technology.ncluded among the... More...

Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron chip in server computers, according to people familiar with the matter, adding momentum to AMD's challenge to industry leader Intel Corp. in supplying the lucrative... More...

Dell is contacting buyers of its PowerEdge 1650 servers because of a defect that can cause the systems to overheat, emit smoke, and shut down, the vendor said Wednesday. The motherboards of all PowerEdge 1650... More...