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Sprint Nextel plans to shed 2,500 jobs from its workforce by the end of 2009. Sprint Nextel is the latest technology company to have layoffs in a series of job cut in the past week that included Microsoft, Real networks, and Nokia Siemens.
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UPDATED: The EC, antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, informed both Oracle and Sun about the decision because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database. The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world's largest commercial database company owning its largest open source competitor.
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A Microsoft executive accused Sophos of over-hyping claims that Windows 7's User Account Control is ineffective at fighting malware. Sophos countered that the goal was merely to show that UAC may not provide the level of protection they thought.
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With BlackBerry 5.0-based devices like the Bold 9700 and Storm2 finally here, Research in Motion customers that have already upgraded their Blackberry Enterprise Server infrastructure to Version 5.0 can start fully testing the new features. Here, eWEEK Labs demonstrates a few of these new capabilities.
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RIM's BlackBerry Bold 9700 combines the solid horsepower and good quality that characterized the original Bold 9000 with a form factor similar to other recent BlackBerry releases. The Bold 9700--versions of which are available from T-Mobile and AT&T--works in concert with the latest enterprise back-end software to add more features for enterprise users, although some of those features are a little kludgy.
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Relegating the iPhone to the Island of Misfit Toys in a new ad, Verizon Wireless attempts to return consumer attention to the issue call coverage. In the United Kingdom, more than a quarter of ADC survey respondents say their work has suffered due to poor reception.
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VMware is rolling out View 4, the latest version of its desktop virtualization offering that leverages the company's vSphere 4 virtualization platform and the strong partnership VMware has with EMC and Cisco Systems. View 4 is designed to let businesses run their desktop virtualization environment as a managed service model, which VMware officials say will increase the user experience and scalability of desktop virtualization deployments while cutting TCO costs by as much as 50 percent. With such features as the PC over IP protocol and a strong ecosystem that includes Cisco, HP, Dell and IBM, VMware is looking to drive the adoption of desktop virtualization into the mainstream enterprise space, where IT administrators can see the benefits but are worried about acquisition costs, scalability and user experience, according to VMware officials.
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Gartner Research suggests that now is the ideal time to take a hard look at how IT functions within a business and that the coming year will be a game-changer in many professionals' careers, as long as the moment for change is seized.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it is tired of what it calls bogus software patents. While Congress dithers over patent reform, the EFF is taking action against the software patents it considers are suppressing noncommercial and small-business innovation or limiting free expression online. To combat these annoying patents, the EFF has targeted its own Top 10 egregious patents. eWEEK presents the EFF's most bogus software patents.
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The first known worm for Apple's iPhone is spreading on jail-broken iPhones in Australia. The worm takes advantage of the default password for SSH used by many jail-broken phones and places an image of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley on the device.
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Based on tests of new beta versions, neither Firefox 3.6 nor Google Chrome 4.0 will be major steps forward for the browsers. The only significant new feature in the Chrome 4.0 beta is Bookmark Sync. The Firefox 3.6 beta boasts more new features than the Chrome 4.0 beta, but none are groundbreaking.
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A mouse from OpenOffice.org and WarMouse, retailing for $75, offers 18 programmable buttons and default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications.
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Through a partnership between ConnectWise and SonicWall, cost-conscious companies will see tighter integration from the two companies' management applications.
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D-Link announces its line of managed switches received IPv6-Ready Core Phase-2 Logo certification from the IPv6 Forum.
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Microsoft's Windows 7 sold well in its first few days of release, according to an analyst report, but declining revenues and suggestions of a slow-paced tech refresh suggest that Microsoft could face at least a few more quarters of stagnant revenues as it seeks to recover from the massive economic recession. This week saw Microsoft cut 800 more jobs from its payrolls, as it continues to consolidate and trim costs in an effort to streamline.
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Review: features sound great, but tests show omissions
Review: Management suite easily integrates linux systems into Windows networks.
Review: Microsoft's SCOM 2007 streamlines host of tasks, but there's no upgrade path
Review: Simply Hired should be your new first stop on the Web when searching for a job.
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