Neowin News Feed for: Hurts

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:58:48 +0000

Intel had stated that hyperthreading's performance advantages would show once threaded software became available, but it appears that in some cases the opposite is true. Intel's Hyperthreading Technology (HT) is being blamed for server performance... Read more...

How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:42:11 +0000

This week, speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said some fascinating things about Linux and about Open Source software in general. And thanks to those remarks and the blinding... Read more...

'Monopolistic' BT kicked where it hurts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:59:06 +0000

BT was left with little option but to cut the cost of its Datastream wholesale broadband product - or face regulatory action from Oftel. Confirmation that BT was effectively threatened by the regulator has given... Read more...

Hitting P2P users where it hurts

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:14:15 +0000

Unable to snuff out file-swapping networks in court, record labels and other media outfits are shifting their anti-peer-to-peer crusade to a new venue: the file-trading networks themselves. Hence, "Overpeer" makes it's mark... Overpeer... Read more...