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Lenovo ThinkPad T400 series notebooks will be the first laptops to use a new Intel anti-theft technology called Intel Anti-Theft PC Protection. These anti-theft technologies, which Intel is building into the chip set, will work in conjunction with Lenovo ThinkPads that use the newer Intel Centrino 2 platform and Intel’s vPro technology. The Intel anti-theft technology offers a number of security features, including a way to deliver a “poison pill” to a laptop that has been reported stolen.
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IBM recently showed eWEEK a demonstration of Blue Spruce, the company's project for enabling collaboration via AJAX-based mashups, including streaming audio and video. The Blue Spruce technology is what you'd get if you rolled IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte and IBM enterprise mashups into one platform to let multiple users collaborate through a Web browser at the same time. See the specifications in this presentation from IBM's Emerging Internet Technologies division.
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Nokia is expected to reveal a new mobile phone Dec. 1 at an industry event in Barcelona that many believe will be an improved touch-screen smartphone the company expects will challenge Apple's iPhone for mobile phone and smartphone dominance. Nokia still dominates the market for smartphone handsets, but sales dropped in the third quarter from a year earlier, and it lost share to Apple and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The battle for smartphone business has heated up since Apple introduced the iPhone last year, with all vendors trying to grab a bigger slice of a market that is seen growing despite the global recession.
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With Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks investing $3.2 billion, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire combine in hopes of building the first nationwide WiMax network. WiMax's 4G technology allows for the delivery of last-mile wireless broadband access and promises faster download speeds than current cellular networks.
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The recent introduction of some cloud computing services has set the hype cycle in motion. But in its current nascent state, cloud computing delivers little more than a dynamically allocated hosting service. To move cloud computing from the overly-hyped stage to being a practical IT architecture will require development tools that allow applications to be created that make use of cloud resources; additional security, and a tight integration between enterprise and cloud infrastructures.
Opinion
The DNS remains broken and vulnerable. The urgency of the problem has increased greatly this year and DNSSEC "dweebs" are pleading for signing the root zone.
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The court-rule amendments, known as the FRCP and placed into effect on Dec. 1, 2006, say businesses must be able to quickly find and make available relevant data when required by a court. Often, business information that could also serve as evidence in a criminal or civil lawsuit is required to be made available in as few as 30 days. Many enterprises are still in the dark about this.
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The latest version of Canonical’s Linux distribution, Ubuntu 8.10, still outshines the Linux desktop offerings from Red Hat and Novell, and is the best open-source alternative to Microsoft and Apple operating systems. However, both Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux and Novell’s SUSE distributions are ahead of Ubuntu 8.10 in the server space.
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A huge portion of IT resources is being wasted on the support and maintenance of outdated legacy applications. A modern, streamlined application environment can help an enterprise save money and remain competitive. Knowledge Center contributor Tim Pacileo offers CIOs five tips to effectively plan and implement a successful application modernization initiative.
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A renewed effort by U.S. regulators to auction off part of the airwaves to a commercial entity that must share the spectrum with firefighters, police and other emergency workers faces its next test within weeks. The Federal Communications Commission's latest proposal to lure bidders to the slice of airwaves that will be vacated when television broadcasters switch to digital signals is set to take center stage at an FCC meeting in mid-December.
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Keeping the "e" in eWEEK, our beat reporters turned up gadgets, apps, phones, GPS devices and even a portable device with 1 terabyte of storage for less than $200, all with an eye toward informing a shopper whose day job involves terabytes, not megapixels.
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Released to manufacturing on Oct. 21, the Microsoft SC VMM 2008 can now manage VMware ESX servers. SC VMM 2008 can now also create new virtual machines on Windows Server 2008 systems and will automatically turn on the Hyper-V role if it is not already active on the target hardware.
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The vulnerability in the Windows Server Service that Microsoft patched in an emergency update last month is facing a new wave of attacks. Microsoft officials reported a spike in exploits targeting the vulnerability earlier this week. If you haven't patched, now is the time to put it on your schedule.
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Self-service technologies are fast becoming the norm in many industries, and companies can leverage the tools and platforms to implement self-service for their employees and customers. A successful deployment can cut costs and reduce headcount and overhead To avoid pitfalls and false starts, though, self-service should focus on the customer or user experience. This video outlines some tips and ideas for a successful self-service plan.
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eWEEK Labs names the products that provide lots of practical bang for very few bucks.
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VMware application virtualization offering ThinApp 4 reduces application conflict and speeds the cycle of application deployment while boasting lower overhead than full-blown desktop virtualization approaches. However, VMware's maiden app virtualization voyage hits some stormy patches.
Network Authority and Strategic Technology Analytics modeled what a midsize organization might face in migrating its switching infrastructure.
Organizations planning to implement 802.11n should consider the impact on their Ethernet switching architecture.
Cisco's newly minted Catalyst 4900M can help network engineers navigate the transition to 10G by offering a mixture of fixed and swappable, card-based ports.
With the popularity of Apple products on the rise, IT departments must
start thinking differently about their management processes.
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