Key factors of today's technologies

Increased performance, mobility and a focus on high performance are all at the forefront in the world of technology today. Here's a look at how the industry is advancing in these areas.

Intel on Tuesday announced eight-core Nehalem-EX chips, which the company said provide performance jumps that could bring critical infrastructure computing to mainstream servers. Read more…

Business spending on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will grow by up to 25 percent worldwide by 2013, according to analyst house IDC. Read more…

If a proposal to allocate radio spectrum for a wireless medical network is approved, many patients may no longer need to travel to a health care facility to be tethered to large machines that monitor their health. Read more…

There's no doubt mobile technologies have already made a big dent on our lives. Whether its surfing the web from your netbook while at the airport, updating your Facebook status from your smartphone, or even reading a novel on an e-book reader. Gartner shows us 10 mobile technologies to watch in 2010. Read more…