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Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs 11 March 2010 at 5:00 am by admin

Macs in the enterprise aren’t just cheaper to manage — they’re a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance. Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who’ve bandied together to deploy and manage Macs in the enterprise

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+ Arm sees over 50 new iPad-like devices out this year By admin 10 March 2010 at 6:52 am and have No Comments

The launch of Apple’s iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.

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+ Sentilla’s energy management tool gets chargeback feature By admin 09 March 2010 at 4:49 pm and have No Comments

Sentilla has released an update to its data center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units for the energy they use

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+ VMware unveils experimental projects on new Web site By admin 09 March 2010 at 4:30 pm and have No Comments

This just in from VMware: “Fling is defined as ‘a brief casual relationship.’” That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects — software code that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware’s flagship virtualization products.

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+ Cisco unveils next Internet core router By admin 09 March 2010 at 12:28 pm and have No Comments

Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. “The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,” Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said during a webcast Tuesday morning announcing the product.

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+ Does Wi-Fi make your laptop more vulnerable to thieves? By admin 05 March 2010 at 11:35 am and have No Comments

It was a startling claim: Like a virtual trail of cookie crumbs, your laptop could be beaming out invisible signals that are attracting intrepid thieves armed with a common $5 gadget. This alarming scenario comes by way of a press release from security vendor Credant Technologies.

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+ Taiwan earthquake may send LCD, chip prices higher By admin 05 March 2010 at 6:58 am and have No Comments

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Taiwan early Thursday may affect the global technology industry by sending prices of LCD panels and certain chips higher, analysts say. The Taiwan government has already confirmed dozens of injuries due to the temblor, mainly caused by falling objects, as well as power outages and several fires, one of them engulfing a factory owned by Everest Textile in the southern city of Tainan

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+ IBM and Eclipse efforts focus on OSGi modularity By admin 04 March 2010 at 6:36 pm and have No Comments

OSGi, which is intended to provide modularity for Java, is the focus of efforts afoot at IBM and the Eclipse Foundation, with IBM leveraging OSGi in its application server and Eclipse using it in a new framework for accessing enterprise technology. With an upcoming feature pack for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v7,  IBM seeks to make it easier to use OSGi.

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+ Ballmer bets Microsoft’s future on the cloud By admin 04 March 2010 at 3:58 pm and have No Comments

Seventy percent of the 40,000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the University of Washington. “A year from now, that will be 90 percent,” he said

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+ Underrated computing threats you need to know about By admin 04 March 2010 at 11:36 am and have No Comments

There’s the danger you know, and then there’s the danger you don’t know. Most of us are rightfully wary of downloading and running programs that have no pedigree, or of performing day-to-day operations as an administrative user.

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Underrated computing threats you need to know about