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Sun’s software shines at serving up virtual desktops, but Solaris may limit its mass appeal.

Eighteen months ago, Janeen Shaffer moved to Mechanicsville to care for a sick parent, but the recruiting manager at Deloitte Federal Consulting didn’t change jobs. She just started telecommuting to her McLean office. Her 45-minute commute is gone, and clients have barely noticed the change. “I really feel like I can focus on my work,“ Shaffer said. “I can focus on me and I can focus on my …

The model is relatively straightforward. Virtual firms hire partner-level lawyers with established clients to work remotely, cut their Big Law rates in half, and let the principals keep most of what they bill. If virtual firms grow to handle bigger assignments, where does Big Law go?

Hyderabad, July 31 To optimise resources, Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam have decided to share office infrastructure in India and abroad.

Dawn Pabst hates the wait for a pizza delivery. So after she orders a pepperoni pizza from the Domino’s website, she never waits.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer on which they hope to run 10 million kernels in a simulation of the open Internet.

While gesture recognition, such as that seen in Project Natal can help gaming, Microsoft’s Craig Mundie showed how it will also transform the office. In a demo, Microsoft’s top research and strategy officer showed how the desktop computer of the future will use an entire office as both display and input device, with voice and gestures augmenting a number of touchscreens.

While mobile devices will be important, the desktop isn’t going away. Eventually your whole office will be a desktop PC, says Microsoft’s top strategy officer Craig Mundie.