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Autodesk Revs Its Mac Lineup
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-16
Maybe Autodesk's romance with the Mac is more than a one-night stand, after all.
Last year, when the company released a Mac OS X version of its flagship AutoCAD design software, I wasn't sure if we were looking at
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Is the Google-rola Deal a Win for Microsoft?
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-15
Congratulations go to Google today, for its decision to pay over $12 billion for Motorola Mobility. In one swell foop, the search king has expanded its IP portfolio in hopes of giving its Android
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Google + Moto = Happy Lawyers, Puzzled Partners, Users On Hold
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-08-15
Image via CrunchBaseMotorola is a name long associated with mobile communications. Those Walkie-Talkies in World War II? That would be Moto. Car radios, moon missions and in 1983
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The PC Turns 30
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-12
It was thirty years ago today that IBM released the Personal Computer model 5150; although it may not have been the first computer marketed at the individual user, it certainly set the stage for the widespread adoption of
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Rock Beats Scissors, but Lightning Beats Cloud
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-11
It seems that the cloud's greatest enemy is lightning.
Or at least, that's the conclusion I've reached after considering the latest outages affecting Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud services in
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Purloined iPhone, Part XXVI
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-10
Well, it looks like the case of the purloined iPhone is in the home stretch. The San Mateo District Attorney's office has filed misdemeanor charges of misappropriation of lost property against Brian Hogan, the man
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VMware vSphere 5 -- Rise of the Virtual Machines
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-09
Before I describe my conversion of eWEEK Labs test infrastructure from VMware vSphere 4.1 to the yet-to-be released vSphere 5, I'll summarize the basics of the new release. This version
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The Web Turns 20
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-08
The World Wide Web turned 20 on August 6, and it's easily one of the five most important inventions of the last century. (If you're interested, nuclear fission, television, the transistor and the laser make up the rest of my
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Subscribe to the eWEEK Labs Newsletter
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-08-04
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More Adventures in the Cloud: PaaS Edition
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-08-04
Back in April, I blogged about how my eWEEK Labs comrades and I had thrown up this Wordpress blog on an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance in search of cloud testing adventure. Fortunately for us thrill-seekers, we got a big old lump of adventure early on, when our newsletter distribution
Cloud-Based iWork a Must for Apple
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-03
It makes sense that Apple is apparently planning to make full-fledged web apps out of its iWork suite, as AppleInsider reported Tuesday; it's one of the few areas where iWork has to take a back seat to
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BMC Service Catalog Enforces Workload Location
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-02
I'm a little bummed that I missed the April 2011 release of the latest version of BMC Software's Service Catalog. Refined in April was Service Catalogs ability to offer virtual infrastructure in
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Simon Crosby: Creating the Secure Cloud at Bromium
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2011-08-02
Simon Crosby was one of the earliest advocates of virtualization and cloud computing. From XenSource, to Citrix and now to his startup Bromium. In this exclusive video interview, Simon
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Safari 5.1 a Vast Improvement
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-08-01
I want to spend some time today on the subject of Safari 5.1, which debuted on July 20 with Mac OS X Lion. Safari 5.1 doesn't require Lion; it will run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows
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Citrix XenServer beta Manages VM Lifecycle
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-08-01
The Citrix XenServer 6 beta 2 Self Service Manager (SSM) is a virtual appliance that enables IT managers to provide a catalog of pre-defined virual machines to users. Multiple tenants can be set up in in the Self Service Manager and tenant users can handle of range of administrative deployment
