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Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said News Corp.'s alleged plan to remove content from its Wall Street Journal and other Web sites from Google's search engine is designed to put pressure on Google during the renegotiation of its $900 million advertising deal with MySpace. Citing ComScore data that shows Google drives 11 percent to 14 percent of traffic to News Corp.'s U.S. news web sites, such as the Dow Jones properties, Fox News, and the New York Post, Lindsay argued that blocking access to Google's Web crawlers would backfire, impinging traffic at these sites.
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Services delivered a solid quarter for HP, generating $8.9 billion in revenue. HP CEO Mark Hurd said the integration of EDS into the company was ahead of schedule, and that HP was able to cut 19,000 jobs in the wake of the EDS purchase in 2008, which helped save on the bottom line. Overall, HP generated $2.4 billion in profit on $30.8 billion in revenue.
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The request also set back by six working days to Dec. 4 a previously set Nov. 25 date for a hearing in Brussels, in which Oracle was to argue its case to EC commissioners that annexing Sun would not materially affect the world's enterprise parallel database market.
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When disaster strikes a data center, ultimately it doesn't matter what caused the problem. What does matter is how quickly and reliably the problem can be resolved to minimize business damage. Prevention efforts, including standard backup policies and redundant systems, continue to be important, but they're not enough. To effectively minimize risk, CEOs and their IT leaders must turn their business-continuity efforts toward reliable recovery from the unforeseen. Some companies are pioneering new approaches to smart IT disaster recovery. Working with these companies, Accenture's Edward Minyard has identified seven critical points common to the new strategies. Minyard is a certified continuity manager with real-world experience that includes 18 months in New Orleans, beginning immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as a key member of the Emergency Operations Center.
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Gist Public Profiles is a new service that lets users publish their contact details, including name, company name and profile picture, personalized news and social network data on a public Web page. Ideally, this service -- and certainly any inclusion deals with Google, Bing or both -- will help Gist grow its user base. While Gist is a fledgling offering yearning for traction among any users who will try it out, e-mail in-box management and socialization tools are gaining traction in businesses. Xobni launched Xobni Enterprise, a secure version of its e-mail search plug-in, while Microsoft launched Outlook Social Connector.
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The culprit of the FAA 4-hour flight-plan system failure was eventually determined to be a routing error in the software configuration inside a telecom router link at the FAA's Salt Lake City data distribution hub, pushing the router offline. Here is a detailed point-by-point timeline, supplied to eWEEK by the FAA and the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union.
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With IT managers keeping tight control over technology budgets as the economy struggles to recover, enterprises are taking a close look at virtualized desktop implementations, or VDIs—known a few years ago as thin clients. Server virtualization has been well-chronicled as a way to consolidate IT resources to create pools of storage and computing power and use it all to better advantage. Both types of virtualization have excellent efficiency attributes, are cost- and power-efficient when used correctly, and are centrally controlled. But that's where the similarities end.
Nonetheless, many people in the market still view server virtualization and desktop virtualization as having a similar architecture. In this slide show, we define the differences between the two types of virtualizations. Our information source is Leostream, a developer of virtual hosted desktop software, which provides the connection-broker apparatus required for enterprises to achieve useful large-scale desktop virtualization implementations.
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Paragon releases a solution for backup and recovery and a system upgrade utilities product designed to help cost-conscious businesses migrate to Windows 7.
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Barnes & Noble said that high demand for its Nook e-reader delayed the shipment date into January 2010 for anyone ordering the devices after Nov. 20. This is the second time that Barnes & Noble announced a delay for its e-readers, which it hopes will make inroads against Amazon.com's popular Kindle line. The e-reader market as a whole has become increasingly fragmented as both large companies and smaller startups release devices.
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The candy-colored Pogoplug media sharing device allows users to access media files from other computers or even the Apple iPhone.
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The argument about hard disk drives versus solid-state drives has been going on for a long time and will continue for years to come. There are those who are convinced that SSDs will indeed outnumber hard drives in the IT business at some point in our lifetimes. Data storage experts consider the question at a Stanford roundtable.
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The IBM supercomputer at Brown University is 50 times more powerful, six times more energy efficient and can hold 70 times more memory than the system it's replacing. Researchers and scientists across the region will have access to the supercomputer, which will have a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops. The supercomputer includes IBM's iDataPlex and holds 1,440 microprocessors. The Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass., will be one of the first users.
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Twitter Nov. 19 released its geotagging API to programmers, but users won't yet be able to access location-based services from the Twitter.com Website. The feature, which allows users to selectively annotate their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about their surroundings, has been implemented on Twitter applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Seesmic Web. Creepy? Perhaps, but likely only to someone who wouldn't opt in to use such a service in the first place.
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Throughout the history of technology, there have been devices that have revolutionized how people used technology by providing a unique capability. But when these devices only do one thing, no matter how well they do it, their lifespan is often short. This is usually because their core functionality quickly becomes a feature of devices that are more popular and can do more than just one thing. Looking back, it's easy to see this in action, from devices that were once ubiquitous and are now extinct to current product categories that are on their way out to new, exciting devices that are destined to become a feature checklist of next-generation smartphones. So take a look at this list of the dismal past, sad present and unpromising future of single-purpose devices.
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Chrome OS is a sort of Web operating system that boots up a netbook in a fraction of the time it takes to start today's existing computers, with Web applications loading in just a few more seconds. Google is trying to make the Chrome OS load time closer to that of a television than a computer. To do that, Google cut out several computer booting processes, and Chrome OS is geared for Flash-based storage. Security is also unique. The Web apps will run on application tabs within Chrome OS, which users will access with one click and manage in persistent windows if they so desire. The first Chrome OS netbooks won't appear until 2010, going head to head with Microsoft Windows Azure devices.
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The flagship backup solution boasts up to 240TB of raw, VTL- and NAS-accessible disk space, all wrapped in a management GUI that speeds implementation and eases backup administration burdens.
REVIEW: The Dot Hill 2722 is a 2U RAID storage array that can house as many as 24 2.5-inch drives accessible via dual 4Gb Fibre Channel controllers. eWEEK Labs' tests show that the system is a solid step into the smaller 2.5-inch form factor, with an easy-to-use GUI, good performance and a high-availability architecture.
Flexibility, extensibility, thorough management capabilities and first-class performance make the HP LeftHand P4300 4.8TB SAS Starter SAN Solution an excellent choice for midrange and above iSCSI storage.
REVIEW: With miSAN D, Cybernetics establishes the right balance of price and features for the price-conscious iSCSI SAN shopper. Where other SAN manufacturers pack innumerable features into their products, Cybernetics focuses on providing only those features you’re likely to use: volume snapshots, internal RAID, full device redundancy and device-to-device replication.
TECH ANALYSIS: IBM could help its flagging storage business by buying Sun, which has boosted its tape storage portfolio through the StorageTek acquisition and has been innovating throughout its storage line. IBM also would be able to take advantage of the growing desire among many enterprises to migrate their mission-critical applications off costly mainframes and onto a more open platform, such as Sun’s OpenSolaris and Open Storage. And they could use IBM Global Services to do the migration work.
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