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DHS Hands Down Final Real ID Regulations
After months of waiting for the Real ID Act regulations to be spelled out, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Jan. 11 the...
Ruby, Ruby on Rails Gain Steam
Benchmark Capital on Jan. 11 announced a $3.5 million investment in Engine Yard, a provider of Ruby on Rails application deployment and support. Engine...
Google Exodus a Symptom of ‘Superbowl Syndrome’
Google watchers and high-tech recruiters say no, but agree that it is a challenge the Mountain View, Calif., company is going to have to...
LBOs May Be DOA in 2008
Last summer's collapse of the leveraged buyout technology market is expected to carry over well into 2008, according to a new survey of tech...
Study Predicts Internet Users Face Bandwidth Drought
Imagine being a high-level executive trying to close a huge deal after hours from home using high definition video conferencing and your so-called high...
AMD Admits Delays with 2 Phenom Chips
Advanced Micro Devices, which has been struggling to bring its quad-core microprocessors to market, is delaying the release of two new Phenom desktop chips...
eWeek Newsbreak, Jan. 14, 2008
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What Does a Falling Dollar Mean for Tech?
The value of the U.S. dollar has been sliding for more than 36 months, monitored dolefully by observers who recall the years when the...
How Do You Install Linux Applications?
If you are a command line guru, you call upon your zypper, yum, conary or apt-get from the terminal, and you awk sed grep...
Acronis Ships New Backup/Recoveryware for Databases
Acronis on Jan. 9 introduced new backup and recovery software specifically designed for databases, including the three most widely-used ones: SQL Server, Oracle and...