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Skyfire 1.5 Browser For Windows Mobile Launches

Ed Hansberry — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:04:48 EST

Skyfire has just taken their browser and upgraded it for Windows Mobile phones. The browser now supports Flash and Silverlight right in the browser just like your desktop. It also supports Ajax, which is what Gmail and other sites use to easily change what is on the screen without forcing a refresh.

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Apple Tablet Eyed For March Release

Antone Gonsalves — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:32:00 EST

The iPad watch has gained ground in the wake of a report from an Oppenheimer tech analyst.

Facebook Christmas Worm Spreads Holiday Infection

Thomas Claburn — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:39:00 EST

Koobface, the worm that has plagued Facebook, Twitter and other social sites, is back.

AT&T To Curb Smartphone Data Use

W. David Gardner — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:10:00 EST

The company said 3% of its smartphone users are consuming 40% of its data traffic and compromising its networks.

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Google Boosts Android Maps

Marin Perez — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:38:00 EST

The 3.3 version of Google Maps for mobile includes more location-based services and the ability to report map problems directly from the phone.

Video Driving Cisco Growth

W. David Gardner — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:59:00 EST

Cisco will accellerate its move into video while also branching aggressively into collaboration and virtualization, said CEO John Chambers.

Google Web Toolkit 2.0 Adds Performance Tools

Thomas Claburn — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:53:00 EST

Developers who share Google's obsession with speed have new options to make Web apps faster.

Open Government's Challenges, Pitfalls, And Skeptics

John Foley — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:34:29 EST

When federal CTO Aneesh Chopra and federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive on Dec. 8, it marked the end of one long, drawn out process and the beginning of what's sure to be another. Good luck making it work.

Samsung Gives Details On Bada OS

Marin Perez — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:33:00 EST

The handset maker's mobile operating system will be taking on the likes of Google's Android and the open source Symbian.

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Facebook Solves 'Embarrassing Photos Problem'

Paul McDougall — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:26:00 EST

Social networking site now gives users control over who sees what.

IDC Sees 1 Billion Mobile Internet Devices By 2013

Antone Gonsalves — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:23:00 EST

Mobile Internet use will more than double, and most activity will be in online shopping, blogging, and accessing business applications.

TSA Breach Exposes PDF File Risk

Paul McDougall — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:32:00 EST

Simply blacking out information in a Portable Document Format file won't keep data from prying eyes.

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Cox Launches Wireless Service

Marin Perez — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:23:00 EST

The cable company is using its portion of the 700-MHz spectrum to offer cellular voice services.

Google Groups Joins Apps Suite

Thomas Claburn — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:11:00 EST

Users gain more flexible communication and collaboration options, while IT administrators gain more control over information management.

Chrome: Google's Cross-Platform Platform

Serdar Yegulalp — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:45:33 EST

No one ought to be surprised by the notion that Chrome is Google's big cross-platform play -- a way to get their app-delivery system running everywhere. It's not just a way to soften people up for the arrival of Chrome OS, either.

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EU Hits New Low Vs. Oracle As Kroes Mocks Senate Letter

Bob Evans — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:34:00 EST

It's unwise to expect much intellectual integrity from the European Union bureaucrats as they put the screws to Oracle, but leader Neelie Kroes has set a new low by dismissing and mocking an official letter of support for Oracle from the U.S. Senate. This is the most disgraceful proof yet that the EU is purely playing politics while thousands of Sun employees lose their jobs.

Social Media Influencing Holiday Purchases

W. David Gardner — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:05:00 EST

A comScore survey found that 28% of online shoppers were influenced by info on Facebook or Twitter in making holiday purchases.

Open Government Directive Tackles Data Quality

J. Nicholas Hoover — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:50:00 EST

The Obama administration will require federal agencies to take steps to improve the quality of their financial data.

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Data.gov Heads For Overhaul

J. Nicholas Hoover — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:37:00 EST

The government is looking to make significant improvements to its open data repository, adding features for developers and consumers and prodding agencies to participate.

Global CIO: IBM Supports Oracle But Microsoft Kisses EU Ring

Bob Evans — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:31:00 EST

Column about IBM exec Steve Mills saying MySQL doesn't compete with Oracle products, while Microsoft waits in line to bash Oracle to the EU.

Magazine Publishers Take On The Internet

Paul McDougall — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:27:00 EST

Consortium of leading media companies eyes digital content and online storefront.

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Novell Maps Workload Management For Cloud

Charles Babcock — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:10:00 EST

The company charts a new path as it applies identity management and security to workloads run in the cloud.

Network Planners Need Next-Gen Approach

W. David Gardner — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:42:00 EST

Telecoms need to synch their network planning with marketing data for successful rollouts of next-gen services, says a survey.

When Controllers Fail

George Crump — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:05:08 EST

What are the chances of a controller failing in a storage system? I don�t know the exact statistic but its safe to assume that its pretty low. When they do fail, the ramifications can be extreme, especially in the increasingly virtualized data center that counts on shared storage. Active-Active controllers provide the protection from controller failure but they are a bit of a misnomer. Both controllers are being used but they are assigned to specific workloads.

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Microsoft Shakeup Signals Azure Launch

Paul McDougall — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:36:00 EST

Software maker reorganizes server group and strikes NetApp deal as it prepares to release cloud platform.

SAP Outlines Five-Year Enterprise Software Plan

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:31:00 EST

SAP's unfolding strategy focuses on meeting industry trends such as on-demand computing, cloud architectures, flexible pricing, mobile and in-memory computing.

Global CIO: General Motors CIO On 4 Essential IT Skills

Chris Murphy — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:19:00 EST

GM CIO Kline would like to hire people with all 4 into the new GM. But how can IT pros get this broad experience?

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Global CIO: Steve Jobs Is Bugs Bunny But Microsoft Is Elmer Fudd

Bob Evans — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:15:00 EST

Column about how Apple and Steve Jobs operate like Bugs Bunny, while Microsoft bumbles along like Elmer Fudd.

Cisco Security Report Sees Social Media Risk

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:06:00 EST

Bad passwords, inconsistent patching, excessive information sharing, and outdated AV software are key ingredients in what Cisco calls a security "nightmare formula."

Where�s Hitachi Data Systems In All These Alliances?

Elias Khnaser — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:30:16 EST

This past year has definitely shaped up to be the year of acquisitions and mergers and strong alliances as far as the technology industry is concerned.

IBM Unveils Mainframe Bundles

Antone Gonsalves — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:30:00 EST

The packages of hardware and software include mainframes priced and configured for large data center consolidation and CRM applications.

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Android And Windows Mobile On One Phone

Ed Hansberry — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:02:21 EST

Lots of people run multiple operating systems on their PC. Some PC users have been dual or multibooting between various versions of Windows and Linux for a number of reasons. It isn't unusual for an Apple OS X user to have a copy of Windows they can boot into on their Mac. Through the use of virtual machines, you can run these operating systems simultaneously and switch just as easily as you switch apps on a single OS. Now it seems you may be able to do the same thing with Windows Mobile and Android.

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Do You Want Your Vevo?

Jonathan Salem Baskin — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:31:50 EST

Vevo, a presumed successor to MTV, debuts today to much less fanfare than its progenitor, what with video having killed the radio star over 25 years ago. Do you think the world needs a for-profit web site that plays music videos?

Hands-On With The JooJoo

Marin Perez — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:52:05 EST

The JooJoo Web tablet has sure caused a stir with all of its issues with TechCrunch, but is the device good enough to overcome all this drama? I spent a little time talking with Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan today going over the JooJoo and feel like it's an impressive product that may be hindered by its price. Hit the jump for deeper impressions and a demo video.

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Mayor Gavin Newsom: Role of Social in Govt (Part 3)

Fritz Nelson — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:15:05 EST

In the final part of this three-part video interview series with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, we talked about the role of social networking, not just in winning a political race, but in ongoing government -- in building participation among citizens. He talks about his successes and failures, and what he's learned along the way.

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Oracle Set For EU Showdown As Blind Call Ellison Lame

Bob Evans — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:14:00 EST

As Microsoft and SAP prepare giddily to hammer Oracle in Brussels this week, those two big and dominant global companies damn well better remember that they could be next on the EU rack because the EU's objectives aren't about "fairness"--they're about politics and power. Appeasing the EU now won't grant them sanctuary later--it will only embolden the bureaucrats of Brussels.

Bank Login Stealing Trojan Threat Grows

George Hulme — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:07:03 EST

Cisco released its Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report this morning, and it contains some interesting insight on many of the vulnerabilities and threat vectors we face today.

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Google Redraws Maps For Android Phones

Eric Zeman — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:43:08 EST

Google has updated Maps for Mobile again for Android phones. There are several new features with this latest update, but the new version isn't compatible with all the variants of Android that are out there.

Wireless Carriers, Open Source Still At Odds

Serdar Yegulalp — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:12:56 EST

That's the thesis behind a piece by Sascha Segan over at PC Magazine, where he blames a good deal of the lack of geek-friendly Linux handsets on the wireless carriers themselves. But how much of it is also end-user indifference?

Google Chrome For Mac Beta Now Available

Eric Zeman — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:39:52 EST

Mac users rejoice! Today Google has made the beta version of its Chrome browser available for Apple computers. The download is free.

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Samsung Redefines Vaporware: 'Bada'

Eric Zeman — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:04:27 EST

Samsung herded up the tech press in London today to share more information about Bada, its new homegrown mobile operating system. Yours truly hopped the Atlantic to attend. Unfortunately, all Samsung demonstrated was its ability to fling every buzzword in the book at attendees.

Verizon Wireless Starts Updating The Motorola Droid

Eric Zeman — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:20:44 EST

Verizon Wireless has started updating the system software of the Motorola Droid. The changelog is pretty long, and includes, among other things, better battery life, a fix for the camera, and more OS stability.

Windows 7 Upgrades Drop Ball On Data Migration

Alexander Wolfe — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:00:22 EST

Today's experience of upgrading one's PC to a new operating system is qualitatively different from that of a decade ago. It's no longer so much about the OS. You've already got something decent; you're mostly adding new bells and whistles. What's different now is there's a lot more user data--pictures, e-mails and music/video files--to move over. And that experience, quite frankly, stinks.

HTC Roadmap For 2010 Leaked

Ed Hansberry — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:59:30 EST

HTC's roadmap for the first half has been leaked and there are tons of pictures and specifications. Looks like there will be plenty of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices as well as some based on Android.

IBM Fellow Says SOA More Relevant Than Ever

Charles Babcock — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:31:50 EST

You can't help getting the impression from Kerrie Holley, IBM's CTO of its SOA Center of Excellence, of how much the idea of services remain the underpinning of what we're trying to do. That's true whether you're talking about restructuring the enterprise data center, implementing a simple Web service, invoking software-as-a-service such as Salesforce.com, or go straight to cloud computing.

You Can Touch, But It'll Cost You

Dave Methvin — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:19:00 EST

Michael Arrington's CrunchPad has become the Fusion Garage JooJoo, and it will launch on Friday. To listen to Arrington's talk of legal action last week, it seemed unlikely this tablet device would ever see the light of day. Yet here it is, real enough to sell, at least unless Arringon's lawyers get an injunction.

Failure To Move

George Crump — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:46:28 EST

Don MacVittie in his blog over at F5 commented recently on an article that we have written �What is File Virtualization?� indicating that we missed a key issue in dealing with how to handle it when your virtualization box goes down. While my defense could be that the subject is beyond the scope of a primer, it is not beyond the scope of this blog. If you are considering a tiered storage model then what do you do when your data mover fails?

Hospital Goes Mobile For Holiday Fundraising

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:58:22 EST

Non-profit organizations count on the giving, holiday spirit for end-of-year fundraising campaigns, but with the tight economy, generosity is being rationed by many people. Children's Hospital Boston is hoping a new text messaging campaign underway will drive smaller donations that will add up all year.

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Google Goggles Visual Search Fails Early Testing

Eric Zeman — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:48:28 EST

The idea of conducting visual searches is nothing new, but Google is attempting to bring just such a service to market. In recent tests, its version of visual search, called Google Goggles (totally different from Mail Goggles), didn't quite get the job done. Can Google make it work?

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Open Source In A Parallel Universe

Serdar Yegulalp — Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:43:15 EST

Something crossed my desk recently that embodied one of my major criticisms of how open source is promoted. It can't be something that lives in its own alternate universe and follow its own laws of physics -- or economics.