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Oracle closes BEA Systems merger
Enterprise software giant wraps up US$6.7B acquisition of BEA, ending contentious effort to acquire former rival. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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ComputerWorld: Value of SSD drives overrated
People contemplating SSD versions of computers like the MacBook Air -- which costs approximately $1,300 more than the HDD edition -- may not find the performance difference worthwhile, writes Computerworld. The magazine has conducted a test of 32GB SSDs by Crucial and Ridata, in comparison to two 7200rpm hard drives by Seagate. All four drives us...
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Seagate: 1 billion hard drives and counting
The storage device maker hits a milestone.
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Comp Time with Dave St. Amant
Dave St. Amant wants to fix America. For him, that begins by supplanting five-term Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin with himself. Last month, the 51-year-old cab driver and freelance computer repairman announced his plan to run as a Democrat for Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District seat, which Baldwin has held since 1998.
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The latest weapons for fending off data thieves
Editor's note: About the author: Efrem Z. Stringfellow is the general manager of Microsoft Corporation's Small and Mid-market Solutions and Partners (SMS&P) group for the Mid-Atlantic States District.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jul 2005 17:32 UTC
Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn would accord end-users certain rights and privileges apparently ending the concept that everyone using their PC is also the PC's administrator.
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April 30, 2008 Idera adds new tools to SQL Server administration toolset
HOUSTON, TX – April 29, 2008 – Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, today announced that two new tools have been added to the company’s newest product, SQL admin toolset.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Oct 2006 08:51 UTC
In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic . Ask around the office. You'll hear the Gen Xers sneer about how Microsoft's operating system is, well, so yesterday.
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Recent Original Stories
"I've been looking at the 'My desktop OS'-articles, and found that I'll have to be the one writing one for Windows XP . To be honest, Windowx XP is very close to being usable on the desktop. I say very close, because it's not so out of the box.
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iPod survey is back open
Please take our iPod survey in preparation for a story next week examining the future of the device that revived Apple.
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Google Maps to offer drivers real-life photos
Drivers using Google Maps for directions will now be able to see real-life photos of their routes following the addition of Street View to the service. Street View provides drivers with actual photographs of the roads where they will be required to make a turn at a junction or change direction. By simply clicking on the camera icon next to the directions in the left-hand side of the ...
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IT vet talks about the most influential computers
Gordon Bell has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years. He was a key engineer and vice president of research and development at minicomputer pioneer Digital Equipment Corp. for 23 years and later a founder of the Computer History Museum. Today Bell is a principal researcher at Microsoft. The project most captivating Bell now is his work on finding ways for anyone to capture ...
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Why Futuremark Omitted DX 10.1 from Vantage
A little bit of a ruckus has been raised over the lack of DirectX 10.1 support in benchmark developer Futuremark's recently released 3DMark Vantage, with some analysts going so far as to say that Futuremark broke under pressure from Nvidia to exclude Microsoft's updated graphics API. According to Futuremark, this allegation is simply untrue , further explaining that its benchmark standards ...
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Robots to swarm English village in military contest
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Robots to swarm English village in military contest --U.K. Ministry of Defense is sponsoring its version of the DARPA Challenge this summer, with robot teams scouting out potential dangers. Latest quad-cores creep into consumer desktops --Latest chips from Intel and AMD are finding a home in consumer desktops from HP and Gateway. Microsoft ...
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ATG Insight Live 2008 Draws More Than 650 e-Commerce Revolutionaries (2º)
28/04/2008 11:00:00 Business Wire US3364531059 in its periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov .
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Google CEO Schmidt: Enjoyed Working With Yahoo; Microsoft Wants Deprive Consumers Of Choice
Don't wait until 4:00 PM to get Eric Schmidt's views on Microsoft-Yahoo and Google's declining rate of growth. Schmidt was interviewed by Maria Bartiromo at the Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton on a number of subjects, and though the interview didn't break much news, at least we know that Schmidt isn't toning down his rhetoric on a possible transaction.
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FTD Group to be acquired by United Online
NetZero and Juno Internet-service providers will join with a huge network of florists and floral-products suppliers. United Online Inc. announced plans to acquire FTD Group Inc. for about $456 million in cash, stock and notes in a deal that will combine the operator of the NetZero and Juno Internet-service providers with a huge network of florists and floral-products suppliers. ...
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SOA Software Certifies Neuron as a Governed Service Platform
SOA Software, an Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, today announced that it has certified the Neuron ESB from Neudesic as a Governed Service Platform. ebizQ received the following: Certified Governed Service Platform status ...
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SOA Software and Solidsoft Announce Partnership
SOA Software, an Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, and Solidsoft, the UK's SOA and BPM Consultancy for the Microsoft platform, today announced the appointment of Solidsoft as Consulting Partner and Value Added Reseller for SOA Software's ...
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Office streaming: What Microsoft will and won't say
Last week, there was talk that Microsoft was considering broadening the way it makes Microsoft Office available over the Web using streaming technology. (For the record, it wasn't Microsoft doing the talking; it was some overly enthused partners.) On April 30, Microsoft shared a...
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Verbatim Announces 500GB Portable HDD
Verbatim announced this week that it was adding a 500GB version is its 2.5-inch SmartDisk portable hard drive to the lineup. According to Verbatim this is the world’s first 500GB portable hard drive featuring a 9.5mm Z-height drive. The drive is about ...
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Juror: Reiser's arrogance, hatred of wife led to conviction
Hans Reiser's arrogance, self-centered attitude and lingering hatred toward his wife were some of the reasons the jury convicted the 44-year-old computer programmer of first-degree murder, according to one of the jurors.
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Intellectual Property
Interpreting a claim preamble and related statements made during prosecution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district courts summary judgment that the defendants did not infringe a patent directed to a portable microprocessor system.
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15:20 (BST), 30/04/2008 Koch Media in North America Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Deep Silver, Inc. a ...
Deep Silver, Inc., a publisher of interactive entertainment software for PC and consoles and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Media, today announced the opening of their office in the Los Angeles metro area.
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HP Updates Blade Workstation Offering
The HP xw460c is geared for users in the computer-aided design field.... Villanova University Six Sigma & IT Certificate Programs 100% Online programs in Six Sigma, IS Security, CISSP Prep, Business Analysis, Proj. Mgmt. and more!
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