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A genetically engineered microbial protein could mean better data storage.

By Amitabh Avasthi

By using lasers to etch data onto microbial proteins, researchers at the University of Connecticut may have demonstrated a way to produce rewritable holographic memory. Holographic memory stores data in three dimensions instead of two and could make data retrieval hundreds of times faster. The first holographic-memory systems have recently come to market, but they do not yet feature discs rewritable in real time.

Learn more about this at Rewritable Holographic Memory

Posted by Elinor Mills

Nearly two years after they were expected to announce a Microsoft Office killer, Sun Microsystems and Google may finally be planning to do it. Or not.

Following much hype about a partnership in October 2005, Sun and Google held an anticlimactic news conference in which all they announced was that they were collaborating on work on Sun’s OpenOffice.org, Java and OpenSolaris and Google’s Toolbar.

Find out more at Google, Sun to finally take on Microsoft?

The X5365 and L5335 processors are designed for companies running high-performance server and workstation applications, with a particular focus on the financial sector.

Read more about this at Intel’s new Xeon