On Feb. 25, 1991, during the first Gulf War, a Scud missile hit U.S. Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 U.S. soldiers. The barracks was defended by a Patriot missile defense system, ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Written off lately by the computer industry as a has-been, Sun Microsystems may still have a few tricks up its engineers' shirt sleeves. On Tuesday, Sun researchers plan to ...

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc , the darling of the dot-com boom, never really recovered from the bet it made on high-powered computers used to run the first generation of Internet ...

The truth is, our desktop computers today would have been classed as supercomputers only a few decades ago. There was a time when people who needed real desktop power looked down their noses at anyone ...

My dad seems to think Sun systems are hard to work on. He says something about they are complex making them difficult to work on. I of course have no idea what hes talking about and figuring that this ...

IBM founder Thomas J. Watson couldn’t add up: it was seven computers the world would need, not five. That’s the contrarian view of Sun chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos. He thinks there will ...

March 20 (Reuters) - The technology world is abuzz with speculation over IBM's talks to purchase Sun Microsystems Inc , which would combine the world's No. 1 and No. 4 makers of computer servers. The ...

A computer memory device that can withstand temperatures of more than 500°C could be used in spacecraft sent to explore Venus or the sun. Computers use a technology called non-volatile memory to store ...