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Google Search Head Preaches Patience for Personal Search
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-30
Danny Sullivan, the Search Engine Land head who has been dogged in his criticism of Google's Search plus your world feature, scored a nice interview with the company's search head, Amit Singhal. If you've been following the SPYW coverage, you should read it because it reveals much about
BUMI No Dumi When It Comes to Replication-less DR
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-27
No, it's not pronounced "bummy." "Boo-mi" would probably be a phonetically more desirable description of the company that calls itself BUMI (Backup My Info!), a managed online
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Google Music Allows Downloads, YouTube Videos
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-27
Google is providing two new perks for Google Music users, including the ability to shuttle their tracks from the music locker and share YouTube videos. Users have been able to upload up to 20,000 songs to the Google Music locker and play them on their Android smartphone or
How Many Android Gadgets Do We Wish?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-26
The Verge founder Josh Topolsky both marveled at and lamented the sheer volume of smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices trotted out at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Topolsky
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Google Keeps Mum on Don't Be Evil Bookmarklet
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-25
Ever since Facebook Product Director Blake Ross unveiled his Don't Be Evil bookmarklet, which uses Google's search indexes to show what Google Search, plus your world would look like if it included results from Facebook, Twitter and other sources, the tech world has been waiting for Google to respond.
HP TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative Modifies Pwn2Own Rules
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-24
HP's TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative unveiled a new format for its popular Pwn2Own contest at the upcoming CanSecWest conference with new prizes and scoring system.
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Google Hotel Finder Now Refines Results by Travel Time
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-24
Google has upgraded the Hotel Finder travel search feature, adding an option to help users filter hotels by how close they want to be to a place when looking for a place to stay. Launched last July to help travelers narrow their options for hotel stays, Hotel Finder
Apple Approves, Yanks Fake Camera+ App on App Store
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-01-23
Mobile device owners are encouraged to download apps from official sources, such as Apple's App Store. However, they should still exercise caution as malicious apps can still slip
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Why Google Can't Reveal Google+ User Engagement Yet
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-23
Over at VentureBeat, Rocky Agrawal is outraged at Google for being "intellectually dishonest" regarding the user engagement the company is seeing in its Google+ social network. As I noted Saturday, Google CEO Larry Page counted 90 million Google+ accounts, but declined to say how frequently users were
HiDrive Offers Users 5GB of Free Cloud-based Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-20
A European cloud service is jumping headlong into the online storage wars here in the States. And it's put together an offer that will be tempting to a number of
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Microsoft System Center 2012 RC--part 1 SC VMM
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-01-20
In advance of the System Center 2012 Release Candidate announcement on January 17, I attended a reviewer workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. As I have predicted for many years,
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Google Apps Fuels BBVA Email for 110,000 Employees
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-20
Google Apps, the cloud-based collaboration software for businesses, is set to turn 5 years old next month. Google celebrated early in landing BBVA as its largest Google Apps deployment to date, spanning 110,000 employees.
BBVA, which is short for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., is the second
Google+ Gets Search Conversations, Video Updates
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-19
Google has really revved its Google+ engine in this second full week of the new year. One day after I discussed the new Google+ photo meme feature and auto-complete search for hashtags, the company has rolled out a handful of new tools to refine the user experience.
Atlantis Computing Shows Off New Approach to VDI Storage
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-01-18
Upstart Atlantis Computing, which specializes in virtual desktop infrastructure storage and performance optimization, this week proclaimed that it has done away with storage
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Servers 3.0 Released
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-01-18
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 was released today with many of the changes from version 2.2 focused on improving management features.
The open source, KVM-based (Kernel Virtual
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