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Sprint's Airave Femtocell Now Available Across the U.S.
Sprint has been trialing the Samsung Airave femtocell in select markets across the U.S. for months. Recently, the Airave became available across a wide range of U.S. states and regions. The Airave, about the size of a Wi-Fi router, ... (follow link to read)
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AppSense Sees Acceleration in Desktop Virtualization Implementations
AppSense reported a 50 percent increase in U.S. revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. Its global business - which includes a growing customer base of over 4,000 - realized a 30 percent increase in worldwide revenue, continuing its trend of 30 percent growth each year since 2005. read more
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Ocado Selects Transitive Virtualization
Transitive announced that prominent UK-based internet grocer Ocado has deployed Transitive's QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution to move its application development and testing infrastructure to a new hardware platform. Built from the ground up, Ocado made its first grocery delivery in 2002 and now handles tens of thousands of orders each week, providing high-quality ...
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VMware Virtualization Infrastructure Has Eliminated Unplanned Application Downtime
VMware announced that United Bancorp has standardized on VMware Infrastructure 3, the datacenter virtualization and management suite, as the foundation for a virtualized IT environment that delivers greater application availability to better serve customers. read more
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VMware vs Microsoft: VMware Makes ESXi Available For Free
VMware's stand-alone ESXi hypervisor, which can either be installed or run from an embedded device available in certain servers, has a 32MB footprint and is from yesterday available at no cost "to help companies of all sizes experience the benefits of virtualization," according to an announcement made by the company. “VMware has always believed that virtualization needs to be ubiquitous. We want ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 16:47 UTC
OneStat today reported that Microsoft's Windows dominates the operating system market with a global usage share of 96.97 percent.
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Cloud Computing Start-Up Creates PowerPC-Based Cloud Desktop
There hasn't been a PowerPC-based computer since Apple abandoned the dingus and bolted to Intel, a move that did wonders for Apple's volumes. Now a Mountain View start-up called CherryPal is about to introduce a $249 Debian-based desktop that's about the size of a dime store paperback built around the 2W MPC5121e mobileGT PowerPC chip that Freescale usually sells to Detroit for navigation ...
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Cuil is Stupid and Has No Chance to Compete with Google
Associated Press reported this morning the launch of Cuil. IMHO, as much as the search results are displayed on a slick and 'cool' page, these guys have little or no chance to compete with Google but a real chance to be bought by Microsoft for 500 bucks before the end of this week. What Microsoft does with it is another matter no one knows. read more
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120 Billion Web Pages Indexed by Cuil
'Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,' said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil, a new search offering that claims to have indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine. read more
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UK to get online crime maps
UK residents are to have access to online maps detailing crime patterns in their communities by the end of the year. The new initiative was announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as part of the reform programme outlined in the Policing Green Paper (PDF).
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Virtualization - Nehalem Schedule Unchanged
DigiTimes' defect rate seems to be rising. It reported Thursday that Intel has moved up its Nehalem launch to September. It hasn't. Production is still set for Q4. Meanwhile, Intel has unveiled eight highly integrated, multifunction, energy-efficient, Internet-driven, x86-compatible System on Chip (SoC) parts. Intel has 15 SoC projects in hand, some of them Atom-based and including Moorestown, ...
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Green party condemns 'file-sharing' deal
The Green party has condemned a deal struck by six UK internet service providers with the record industry...
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SoftLayer Technologies Provides Virtualization Firewall Protection With Fortinet Security Solution
Fortinet announced that SoftLayer Technologies has deployed Fortinet FortiGate-3810A multi-threat security systems at nationwide data centers to help secure customers' virtualized networks and protect them from malicious Internet attacks. SoftLayer's firewall offering provides customers with an essential layer of security that can be provisioned on demand without service interruptions. Security ...
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FalconStor Teams Up With HiNet to Offer SaaS-Based Storage Services in Taiwan
FalconStor announced its expansion in the Software as a Service (SaaS) market, collaborating with HiNet - the Internet service provider (ISP) arm of Chunghwa Telecom, an information and telecom service provider in Taiwan - to make online backup services available to customers and small-and-medium-size businesses in Taiwan. read more
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RPCC students show computer savvy
SORRENTO – Savitha Pinnepalli’s computer science students at River Parishes Community College presented their final projects to faculty, staff, and students during a July 14 reception at the college.
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Equinix and The London Internet Exchange (LINX) Announce Partnership
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, and The London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the world's largest Internet exchange points, today announced a partnership agreement that will extend the LINX peering fabric into Equinix's London-4 (LD4) Internet Business Exchange (IBX(R)) data center located in Slough.
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Virginia Broadband Reduces Costs by Using Edgewater Networks' Solution for Its VoIP Services
Virginia Broadband (VABB), a leading high-speed wireless broadband Internet Service Provider and Edgewater Networks, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP networking and security products announced today that VABB has selected Edgewater Networks' solution for its VoIP services.
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Central Coast Tech: Computer store owner to gab on Web trends
P ete Gannon, the owner/ operator of Computer Stuff in San Luis Obispo, will make one of his return visits as the featured speaker at the August meeting of SLO Bytes PC Users Group. He will talk about trends in computer systems and software. He also will offer tips to help users make the decision about replacing a computer or upgrading to Windows Vista. The meeting will be held Sunday at the ...
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Look Beyond the Rack for Style This Fall - Dell's New Studio and Inspiron Systems Redefine PC Design
Dell's smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today. Available immediately at www.dell.com/hybrid, the PC's new unique shape and size, personalized with six optional, external jewel-toned color or bamboo sleeves, unleashes stylistic expression, inspiration and fun and looks great in any room.
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Radford City Council adopts rental housing ordinance - roanoke.com
The Radford City Council passed a rental housing ordinance, approved a five-story development that's projected to take up most of a city block, and may have killed Radnet, the city's wireless Internet service. The council also approved the expenditure of a little more than $1.1 million.
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SAP revenue up 18 per cent
Martin Courtney, Computing , Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 14:49:00 Worst of slump is over, says software giant, but UK users unhappy about rising support costs Software giant SAP reported an 18 per cent increase in revenue in the second quarter of 2008, up to €2.86bn (£2.26bn) from €2.42bn (£1.91bn) in the same period last year....
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AOL Shutting Down Xdrive, Other Services
AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities. AOL Pictures, the year-old media-sharing site BlueString and the online backup service Xdrive will likely shut down by year's end, though the company is looking to sell at least Xdrive, which AOL bought in 2005 ...
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NTRglobal On-Demand Delivery Models Featured in Microsoft-Sponsored Report on the Current and Future State of ...
Today there is an 'on-demand' component to "just about every software product, and the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model is gaining traction among midsize and large enterprises," Bob Tarzey, research director at analyst firm Quocirca, said in a new report entitled, On Premise and On Demand.
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Denbighshire council streamlines security infrastructure
Janie Davies, Computing , Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 02:00:00 Simplifying security management will cut costs and reduce administration time Denbighshire County Council is improving its online security for employees, schools and libraries in the county. Using software from IT supplier CheckPoint Software Technologies, the council hopes to cut administration...
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Oracle Expands Charges Against SAP in Lawsuit
In an amended court filing that cited internal SAP documents, Oracle said four SAP board members, including current co-chief executive Henning Kagermann, received a confidential document that "made clear TomorrowNow did not operate legally."
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