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Battelle's Big 5: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-12-08
John Battelle is doing some nice culling for his next book, "What We Hath Wrought."
Normally, I'd shun any book with a title like that because it invokes the dreaded Triple P threat: portentous, pompous and pretentious. But this is Battelle, baby. Even if the title sounds like something
Drive Interfaces: TNG
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-07
It's time to rethink drive interfaces again, if we're going to wring the most out of solid-state drives. As Chris Mellor pointed out today on The Register, PCI Express is currently unavailable as a means to directly
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Google+ Check-In Offers Coming Soon
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-12-07
Earlier this year, I wondered when Google+ would be integrated with Google Places. That's as logical of a local business booster as you can get. Take Google's social network and pair it with the company's local business search service. Google is indeed hard at work in this
Carrier IQ: Scandal or Not?
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-06
As the Carrier IQ story unfolds, I'm kind of glad that I've had other things on my mind for the last couple of weeks; thankfully, my preoccupations have kept me from shooting off my mouth before I have a better sense
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Kindle Fire: The On-Ramp to the iPad
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-12-06
J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz had a sit-down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, from whom he gathered that they were not at all concerned by Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet. If they had said that before the Kindle Fire was launched Nov. 15,
Vendors Release Carrier IQ Scanning Tools
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-05
Mobile device owners worried whether the Carrier IQ software is installed on their mobile devices now can use apps designed to scan and detect the network diagnostic tool.
BitDefender
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Governance May Help IT Staff Maintain Overtime Status
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-05
There's a proposal floating around the U.S. Senate's committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions that would seriously rework the standards for who in IT is eligible for overtime.
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SAP Joins Old Partner HP in Refreshing Its Cloud IP
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-05
When enterprise application provider SAP announced over the weekend that it intends to spend multiple billions of dollars to acquire cloud services provider SuccessFactors, the
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Chrome Bloating Like Firefox, Users Claim
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-12-05
An interesting meme has popped up over whether Mozilla's Firefox browser is sustainable given the fact that Google's Chrome browser is rapidly gaining on its rival and that Google accounted for 84 percent of revenue last year.
That licensing deal, in which Firefox shuttles users to Google's
Seagate Shipping Its Fastest-Ever Hybrid Laptop Drive
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-02
Seagate, once the No. 1 hard disk drive producer in the world and now a close No. 2 to WD, continues to maneuver deeper into solid-state and hybrid SSD-hard disk drive
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Reliable, Secure, Not Seen Before: CloudBeat 2011
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-02
While reliability and security topped the agenda at the Cloudbeat 2011 conference held this week in Redwood City, the big ideas on the first day were more about how cloud development is setting
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Glasses-free 3D on a Mobile 720p Screen, Cool
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-02
Glasses-free, 3D, full-motion video on a 4.3-inch screen looks pretty stunning.
I didn't get to watch the Captain America trailer long enough to see if the cell-matrix parallax barrier technology
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Google Flight Search Results Now Indexed on Google.com
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-12-02
Google released the first fruits of its ITA Software Flight Search data back in September, providing users with flight schedules and prices to compare several travel options.
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Unknown Startups Landing Big Cloud-Based Storage Deals
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-01
In today's IT world, you don't have to have a well-known brand to make a big sale. It's all about how well the IT works; beyond that, branding--at least in the IT
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Why Security Concerns Should Not Deter Journey to Cloud
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-01
By David Hunter
Recent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud. Yet, amid all the hand-wringing about perceived
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