Bill Detwiler

The Sun Fire X4500 system, code-named Thumper, accommodates 48 hard drives and has two AMD Opteron chips.

One of Microsoft’s most long-awaited releases, SQL Server 2005 has finally hit the market and brought with it significant new features and changes from previous versions.

In this gallery, Scott Lowe walks throgh a sample deployment of SQL Server 2005. The installation procedure has changed quite a bit from previous versions, and this will hopefully help you find the potential pitfalls before you undertake your own deployment.

Japanese electronics giant Hitachi displays its electronic paper at company’s high-tech exhibition in Tokyo.

What people will see when the Web browser update is sent out via Automatic Updates.

Alex Dragulescu has created “organic” images that grow based on incoming spam.

At “Christmas in July” event, company shows off sports camcorder, MP3 player and more.

Hoping to capitalize on popularity of its Razr cell phone, Motorola unveils several new models based on its design.

Thanks to Bluetooth technology, the Mac maker’s only two-button clicker is no longer trapped by a USB cable.

Winternals’ ERD Commander 2005 – which creates a bootable CD you can use to recover from registry failures, undo hotfixes and more. In this gallery, Erik Eckel shows you what ERD Commander 2005 has to offer. You can learn more about ERD Commander and the other tools in Winternals’ Administrator’s Pak in this The Right Tool for the Job? blog post.

It’s up in the air how partners will be affected by Microsoft’s newly announced plans to launch its own Zune music hardware and software.

At Microsoft, Lego shows off the latest iteration of its programmable robot technology.

Big Blue’s systems now come with a new 2.3GHz Power5+ processor–its rival to Intel’s recently launched “Montecito.”