News
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EMC upgrades backup and recovery software
Only a few wisps of storage news this week from EMC, Virtual Instruments and start-ups Gridstore and Nasuni. EMC announced last week...
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Palm Ares developer tool set moves to beta stage
Palm’s Project Ares, a browser-based development tool set for Palm webOS applications, has moved to a public beta stage, a Palm representative...
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Apple Tablet coming in January?
After months of rumors, we still know very little about Apple’s tablet device — but that could change very soon. Apple is...
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Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010
Android phones will make significant headway in the smartphone market and 4G service providers will zero in on apps in 2010. Those...
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What’s next for MPLS?
Multiprotocol Label Switching has been without a doubt one of the most successful technologies of the past decade. The advantages of MPLS...
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Five big questions about cloud computing
In a largely downbeat year, I couldn’t help but delight in Larry Ellison’s over-the-top takedown of cloud computing last September. It was...
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Subscriptions boost Red Hat revenue
Open-source enterprise software vendor Red Hat reported fiscal third-quarter revenue up 18 percent from the same quarter last year. Total revenue for...
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High Windows 7 satisfaction spurs corporate IT spending
Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said. Part...
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China blames online games for drugs, murder, teen pregnancy
China’s state news channel has blamed hugely popular online games for problems including drug addiction, teen pregnancy and even murder this month...
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5 must-have IT management technologies for 2010
As more companies expand virtualization deployments and consider cloud computing, the average IT environment will grow ever more complex. For enterprise IT...
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Hackers hit OpenX ad server in Adobe attack
Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over...
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Secure1st to host IT security workshops
Secure1st has announced its plans to conduct free monthly workshops beginning 2010, covering various areas of IT Security and Computer Forensics. Primarily...
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Nortel accepts $282M bid for VoIP unit
Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business to Genband for...
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Essential patches of 2009
Fact: Everyone who patches is safer. Fact: Not everyone patches. The gap between the two facts is too deep for even security...
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Mozilla unveils new Firefox interface ideas for 2010
Mozilla yesterday said that its planned overhaul of Firefox’s interface will be pushed back to Firefox 4.0, the major release now slated...