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MS and Oracle’s big dev tools - who needs ‘em?

administrator @ February 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Viva Emacs and Vim
A chunky Visual Studio 2010 releases soon, packing more features and representing perhaps more hours of development than any other single-vendor’s development tool.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

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Acer H5360 3D ready projector

administrator @ February 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Play 3D games and movies on your wall
Review 2010 is supposed to be the year that 3D breaks into mainstream home entertainment but most of the PR puff has been focused on expensive TV sets. Acer does a good job of making this currently tiny market a damned sight more interesting with its H5360, a [...]

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Microsoft fluffs Feds with secure cloud

administrator @ February 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Google beater
Microsoft has beaten rival Google to deliver a version of its online applications tailored for US government users.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

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Intel and Yahoo! spawn open-source ‘Tashi’ cluster

administrator @ February 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Big Data goes back to school
Backed by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel, the computer science mavens at Carnegie Mellon University have added a new compute cluster to the worldwide Open Cirrus test bed, a collection of clusters designed to explorer the frontiers of interwebs-scale distributed computing.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

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Fedora 13 Alpha release delayed

administrator @ February 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Tuesday ties makes for 7 day truancy
Fedora Project developers said they will push back the first alpha release for Fedora 13 by one week.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

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US government rescinds ‘leave internet alone’ policy

administrator @ February 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Strickling speaking, the Naughties are dead
The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

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Apple uncovers child workers in its plants

administrator @ February 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet

iPod, iPhone, and Mac makers quizzed
Apple has found children were hired to help build some of its products, with one employer in its Mac, iPod and iPhone supply chain falsifying records.…What is your recession sales strategy?

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Facebook patents user news feed

administrator @ February 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Zuckerberg owns Web 2.0 stalking
Facebook has been awarded a patent on displaying news feeds of users’ activities — creating an interwebs stir that basic social network functionality could soon fall prey to Facebook IP rights.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Microsoft warns over rogue Security Essentials

administrator @ February 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Not flattered
Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Parallels fondles Steve Jobs’ bare metal

administrator @ February 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet

VMs gets cozy with Apple Xserve
Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor for servers built by the Jobsian cult.…What is your recession sales strategy?

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