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Apple Customers Report Flawed iMacs

Antone Gonsalves — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:04:00 EST

Over 80 pages of complaints, including flickering, cracked, or yellow-tinged screens, have been logged on Apple's iMac support forum.

NASA Launches Comet-Hunting Space Camera

Paul McDougall — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST

WISE is designed to capture everything from near-Earth objects to distant black holes.

Oracle Mobilizing MySQL Users

Charles Babcock — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:26:00 EST

The European Commission investigation into Oracle's acquisition of Sun is turning into a political dogfight as MySQL users are writing letters supporting and opposing the deal.

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Los Angeles Goes Google

Thomas Claburn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:26:00 EST

As of Monday, city employees will be able to start using Google Apps for daily computing tasks.

Microsoft Offers Climate Change Tools

Paul McDougall — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:05:00 EST

Software maker rolls out interactive services at COP15 conference in Copenhagen.

Google Phone Could Spur Mobile App Development

W. David Gardner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:47:00 EST

A branded handset could help the search company develop a more software developer-friendly infrastructure.

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Global CIO: The CIO's Christmas

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:06:00 EST

A holiday poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss

Global CIO: Oracle's EU Nemesis Mocked Intel After $1.5B Fine

Bob Evans — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST

Column about EC bureaucrat Neelie Kroes fining Intel $1.5 billion and then making jokes about that penalty, and about what type of joke she had planned for Oracle.

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What Do Oracle's MySQL Promises Amount To?

Serdar Yegulalp — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:25:14 EST

That's the essence of the challenges posed by MySQL originator Monty Widenius in his newest blog post about Oracle's ongoing acquisition of Sun and MySQL. His confidence in Oracle to do the right thing remains thin. Very thin.

Nexus One Google Phone: Sorting Fact From Fiction

Eric Zeman — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:23:29 EST

The amount of information that has hit the Internet about the Nexus One Google Phone is bordering on the ridiculous. Not all of it is accurate. Here's a quick look at what's real and what's not.

Cisco Starent Deal OK'd By Stockholders

W. David Gardner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:22:00 EST

The $2.9 billion deal calls for Starent's operation, which provides multimedia core platforms for mobile carriers, to be merged into Cisco.

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Office 2003 Bug Locks Files

Paul McDougall — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:42:00 EST

Rights management technology causes glitch that affected RMS-protected documents.

IBM Offers Tivoli Service To SMBs

Charles Babcock — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST

Tivoli Live Monitoring can monitor virtual machines running under VMware ESX Server, Microsoft's Hyper-V, and Citrix Systems XenServer.

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Global CIO: Oracle Customer Comments Will Force EU To Yield

Bob Evans — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Oracle customers last week crushed the EU's case against Oracle by saying its databases don't compete with MySQL. But will the EU listen?

Oracle Makes 10 Commitments To Seal EU Deal

Bob Evans — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:06:00 EST

Oracle has just released 10 commitments to customers and developers about MySQL's future accessibility and openness in the hope of gaining EU approval to acquire Sun. Combined with the powerful customer endorsements given to the EU late last week, these promises would appear to put Oracle on the verge of gaining approval to acquire Sun and all of its assets.

Chip Foundries Increase Spending On Capital Equipment

Antone Gonsalves — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST

Worldwide spending on chip equipment will fall precipitously this year, but sales will pick up strongly next year, Gartner said.

Windows Mobile 7 Now A Q4 Release

Ed Hansberry — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:03:46 EST

It looks like Windows Mobile 7 has been pushed back to the fourth quarter of 2010. Actually, Microsoft has not published any release date for the mobile platform so what is really being pushed back are the expectations that the previous round of rumors had. This pushes the release closer to the holiday season though. Any release after that wouldn't bode well at all.

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Done.io Helps You Focus On Your Task List

Allen Stern — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:09:46 EST

I keep my list of items I need to complete on a piece of paper. Actually a few pieces of paper. A new application launching this weekend aims to help me (and you) increase our effectiveness.

Accenture Drops Tiger Woods

Bob Evans — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:50:00 EST

Accenture has dropped Tiger Woods as a featured advertising icon for the company after a six-year sponsorship, the Wall Street Journal has just reported. Ironically, a recent column in the Journal focused on one of the key lines from Accenture's long-time and hugely successful partnership with Woods: "It's what you do next that counts."

'Nexus One' Is Google's Android Phone For Consumers

Eric Zeman — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:29:18 EST

Mere hours after Google posted a blog about an unnamed Android device that it gave its employees, the Wall Street Journal confirmed that the device will in fact be sold to consumers as the Nexus One. This is the real, actual, Google Phone, and it will be available in early 2010.

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Microsoft's Non-Family Values

Dave Methvin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:33:00 EST

A few bloggers such as Ed Bott have noted that Microsoft quickly retracted its special offer of the Windows 7 Family Pack, which allowed home users to upgrade 3 PCs for a reasonable $150 price. Instead, you'll need to shell out about $120 per PC for an upgrade now. But I have a feeling Microsoft wasn't the driving force behind the demise of the Family Pack.

Google Admits That the 'Google Phone' Is Real

Eric Zeman — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:25:12 EST

In a cryptic post on The Official Google Mobile Blog today, Google admitted that a Google phone does indeed exist. But it's for employees only, and only for "dogfooding" activities. Oh, and Google doesn't call it the "Google Phone."

Getting Started With Full Disk Encryption

Serdar Yegulalp — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST

Today, full-system encryption in software is feasible and practical. Here's how to get up and running using solutions from PGP, McAfee, Sophos, and open-source options TrueCrypt and DiskCryptor.

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Down To Business: The 'Jobs Summit' And The Role Of Government

Rob Preston — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Policy makers don't 'create' IT and other jobs without introducing a ton of waste. They do best when they grease the skids of output and trade.

CIO Profiles: Marc Probst, VP And CIO Of Intermountain Healthcare

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

One of Intermountain's top projects: an enterprise picture archive communication system.

How To Improve Your End-User Device Strategy

Jonathan Feldman — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

We need to develop smart new ways to deliver the computing power employees require while ditching the fat desktop PC with its replacement cycle treadmill. e as-yet-unknown combination? We can't say. But we do know that IT must develop a smart new direction, and soon.

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Rolling Review: Zinstall Runs Windows 7 and XP

Randy George — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

If your users aren't ready to let go of XP as you upgrade to Windows 7, Zinstall can help.

10 Questions To Ask About Netbooks

Michael Healey — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Like it or not, netbooks will move into your company. Here's what you need to know before they do.

Practical Analysis: 802.11 -- The Blu-Ray Of Wireless

Art Wittmann — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

While useful, 802.11n is unlikely to be game-changing technology in most enterprise settings.

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Zeus Bot Appears in EC2 Cloud, Detected, Dismissed

Charles Babcock — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:44:40 EST

A virtual machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud has been used as a command and control host for a password stealing version of Zeus, says a senior researcher in the Internet Security Intelligence Initiative, part of CA's security unit. "This is a particularly juicy target," says another security expert.

California Health Provider Tackles EHRs

Mitch Wagner — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST

Community Health System expects to improve quality of care, patient communications, and cost management using Allscripts electronic health record software.

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Google Douses Privacy Fire

Thomas Claburn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:01:00 EST

CEO Eric Schmidt's remarks are being taken out of context, the company says.

Microsoft Acquires Data Center Automation Firm

Charles Babcock — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:56:00 EST

The purchase of Opalis will allow Microsoft to bring automated data center best practices to expand System Center's capabilities.

Dell Updates OptiPlex Business Line

Antone Gonsalves — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:41:00 EST

The computer maker has added four smaller business desktops for space-constrained organizations.

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Top 10 Intel & AMD Stories Of 2009

Alexander Wolfe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:07:00 EST

High-profile developments on the processor landscape this year included aggressive multicore designs, research to put data centers on chip, and a surprise antitrust settlement between the dueling semiconductor vendors.

Motorola Droid Is Gadget Of The Year

Eric Zeman — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:55:54 EST

Time Magazine has named its top ten gadgets of the year. To what I am sure is the bitter disappointment of Apple, Motorola's Droid took the top spot. Does the Droid deserve such honors? Who was left out?

IBM's Big Iron Speaks Linux

Serdar Yegulalp — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:54 EST

IBM's new Linux-based mainframe says a lot about the way a company can make Linux a cornerstone of its business. It's an all-Linux machine, one which might well spell out a high-end strategy for other hardware vendors to follow.

IBM's Sexy New Sports Car

Jonathan Salem Baskin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:36:24 EST

IBM has announced a new chip that could help a supercomputer achieve 10 petaflops, which is calculating power tantamount to the speeds Nature uses to form bubbles in sea foam and keep planets in orbit.

Why Stop At Automated Storage Tiering?

George Crump — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:29:58 EST

Automated tiering, the transparent movement of data based on activity or type, is quickly proving itself to be a hot consideration for storage managers but why stop at automated tiering? Can�t we make the entire storage ecosystem respond automatically based on environmental conditions and its available resources?

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Apple: Nokia Stole Our Ideas

Eric Zeman — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:39:41 EST

In response to the lawsuit that Nokia filed against Apple in October, Apple has responded with one of its own. It goes so far as to say that Nokia "stole" from Apple. This could get ugly.

Motorola Droid Software Update 2.0.1 Is A Winner

Eric Zeman — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:50:45 EST

The Motorola Droid review unit I have recently updated itself to system 2.0.1. The changes are subtle, but executed perfectly. Not that the Droid was a dog before, but it now operates much better.

Palm Pre Owner Demands Reliable Backups

Ed Hansberry — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:04:38 EST

Some Palm Pre owners are less than pleased with the backup system that Palm and Sprint use to ensure that user's data is retained. One customer has sued Palm and Sprint in Federal court and is seeking class action status.

How Organizations Get Hacked

George Hulme — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:10:27 EST

Want a better idea of how organizations get infiltrated, including detailed synopsis of how many successful data breaches occur? Sit down with a copy of the just released Verizon Data Breach Investigations Supplemental Report and you'll get a great idea.

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Carrier Billing Finally Hits T-Mo's Android Market

Eric Zeman — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:41:55 EST

T-Mobile is rolling out an update to its Android customers that enables one important new feature: carrier billing. With this feature now working, customers will be able to have Android Market purchases added to their monthly bill rather than their credit card.

AMD, Intel: Graphics To Trump Processors In 2010

Alexander Wolfe — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:13 EST

For the last few days, I've been mulling over the top semiconductor stories of the year. Clearly, the settlement by Intel and AMD of their ongoing antitrust and patent/licensing disputes is the biggest business news. Picking the tech champ is tougher, because it's not about where we've been in 2009, but rather where we're headed in 2010.

Obama Allocating $600M To Health Centers

Mitch Wagner — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:31:45 EST

President Barack Obama allocated almost $600 million to build community health centers and implement electronic medical records, part of the $787 billion stimulus bill. The White House framed the funding as means of adding jobs to the economy, and overhaul the nation's health system.

Skype Beta Now Available To Symbian S60

Eric Zeman — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:59:20 EST

For the first time, Skype is offering a version of its software to Symbian S60 3rd Edition devices. It covers the basics, such as Skype-to-Skype calling and instant messaging. The initial set of devices it works with is limited, but Skype promises that will grow quickly.

IBM, Oracle, Open Source: Mixed Motives Abound

Serdar Yegulalp — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:21:03 EST

The Oracle/European Union drama never stops. Now IBM's stuck their collective necks into the fray and said that Oracle's acquisition of Sun should go through if they make some positive open source gestures to all parties. Meaning what exactly, though?

Google Revs Up iPhone Search App

Eric Zeman — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:17:28 EST

Google has taken the opportunity to offer a new version of its mobile search application for the iPhone. The new software makes several improvements to the usability of the application, including the ability to recognize Australian accents.

Why Microsoft Azure Should Matter To Businesses

Mary Hayes Weier — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:01:22 EST

I'll make a prediction that 2010 will be the most exciting year yet for cloud computing, and that's partly related to Microsoft's ramp-up of Azure. Anyone attending Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference last month understands the potential of cloud platforms for rapid application development. And this is all coming together at a time when IT shops need to quickly and cheaply turn out innovative new applications for the business.

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