Citrix Systems Inc. presented its new NetScaler MPX line of web application delivery systems at the Interop Las Vegas 2008. The new NetScaler solutions feature a multi-core system architecture that increases datacenter capacity and delivers 2.5 times more web applications with the same infrastructure footprint. It provides sophisticated workflow virtualization that senses changes in application demand and automatically invokes the necessary application and server resources to meet workloads.

Citrix NetScaler MPX 15000 and MPX 17000 are available this month and suggested retail pricing begins at US$180,000 per pair.

PointDev, a small software company found that Sony was using pirated version of their software. They raided the place and found four servers running pirated software. Sony BMG was using a pirated license for one of its system administration tools which is really a matter of shame. If one company software was found pirated, many others must be there too. We can’t blame Sony also here but head officials must not aware of it and some notorious people must have done it to save them from buying software or does the Sony feels ashamed of buying software from smaller companies?

Until now only black and white images were possible by existing electron microscope to view atoms but now Cornell’s Duffield Hall has acquired a new electron microscope that will enable scientists to see individual atoms in color for the very first time. The new microscope uses a technology called aberration-correction which is more intense and allows for faster imaging speed. So now one can also see how atoms are bonded to one another in a crystal, because the bonding creates small shifts in the energy signatures.

A big asteroid is approaching earth and it’s supposed to come within 1.4 moon-distances of the Earth on 31 January. This asteroid measures 250m in diameter. Sure this is big enough to cause problem but its nothing to worry scientist say. Scientist at NASA says that this is the biggest asteroid to come this close in twenty years.

Samsung Electronics launched its new desktop pc ‘Magic Station MV70’ in Korea market, which runs on Intel’s 45nm Core 2 Duo CPU, code-named ‘Wolfdale’. Featuring enhanced clock speed and L2 cache memory, the 45nm CPU is also equipped with HD boasting system.

Offering 500GB SATA2 HDD, 2GB DDR2 memory and GeForce 8500GT video card, the MV 70 adopts Blu-ray optical drive for enjoying HD content. It runs on Windows Vista Home premium OS.

Suggested price is below 1,400,000(KRW).

Suddenly everyone is thinking cheap these days! Not by that sense but after the OLPC cheapo laptops, then ASUS Eee PC then we heard of Acer going make a cheap laptop too. Today Gigabyte also announced a low-cost PC which will be launched in June this year. This PC will be based on Intel platform and have a display of 7- to 9-inch. This PC will be the full in-house product of Gigabyte.