Microsoft throws Hyper-V R2 into the ring
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Takes metal chair to VMware
Microsoft has picked a fight with VMware’s ESX Server hypervisor, offering up a freebie download of its own Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hypervisor on the opening day of the VMware-backed VMworld in San Francisco.</p.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Microsoft says US is top malware target
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The United States of infected PCs
Windows users based in the United States are the most likely to benefit from Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool, which has removed malware from nearly 2.2 million US machines, more than the other nine top countries combined.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Judge acquits mother in MySpace suicide case
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Violating terms of service not a criminal offense
A federal judge has officially acquitted Lori Drew, the Missouri mother accused of using MySpace to bully a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later committed suicide.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Japanese boffin boasts electrospray OLEDs
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As cheap/expensive as newspapers
Displays created using self-illuminating organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology “could be manufactured as inexpensively as printing newspapers,” according to one of the researchers involved in developing the new manufacturing process.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Japanse boffin boasts electrospray OLEDs
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As cheap/expensive as newspapers
Displays created using self-illuminating organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology “could be manufactured as inexpensively as printing newspapers,” according to one of the researchers involved in developing the new manufacturing process.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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EMC absorbs FastScale Technology
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Ionix carves up and slims down servers
Storage giant and systems management software wannabe EMC added another tool to its data center utility belt today when it snapped up FastScale Technology for an undisclosed sum.…What is your recession sales strategy?
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IT test cloud follows Amazon with tunnel to earth
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Skytapping with IPSec
Less than a week after Amazon introduced its Virtual Private Cloud, letting you readily marry your internal IT infrastructure with an external setup floating on its EC2 web service, the Jeff Bezos-backed Silicon Valley startup SkyTap is offering much the same thing on its own infrastructure cloud.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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iPhone thieves collared by Jobsian GPS
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The telltale status symbol
A trio of blundering brigands have been busted after an iPhone they had stolen betrayed their whereabouts.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
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IIS bug gives attackers complete server control
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Linux and Chrome flaws too
A hacker has uncovered a previously unknown bug in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services webserver that in some cases gives attackers complete control of vulnerable machines.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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VMware vSphere gets more gadgets
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Freebie console for freebie hypervisor
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware kicks off its VMworld fest in San Francisco today by rounding out its vCenter management tools for the new vSphere 4.0 stack, which wraps around the new ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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