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Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday showed off application capabilities for its Windows Phone 7 Series platform and offered a release candidate for its upcoming Silverlight 4 rich Internet application plug-in technology. Windows Phone 7 Series leverages Silverlight and the XNA gaming platform for application development.

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Microsoft touts Windows Phone 7 Series and Silverlight 4

Startup People Power this week is introducing a wireless application development platform that is centered on home deployments and the green technology market, but also can be applied to commercial offices.

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People Power pushes ‘green’ wireless apps

Ruckus Wireless aims to lower the cost of entry to enterprise IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi gear with a stepped-down line of access points it is introducing on Monday.

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Ruckus targets enterprise Wi-Fi with lower pricing

Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable

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Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday will introduce a framework enabling Web analytics to be performed for Siliverlight rich media applications. The open source Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework will debut in a beta form at the conference in Las Vegas, said Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist. The framework, which will be released on the company’s CodePlex site for open source projects, will work with third-party analytics services from companies such as Preemptive Solutions.

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Microsoft to offer Web analytics for Silverlight

Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs) , in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the storage devices.

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Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking

A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker’s Jetpack project , which aims to simplify add-on making.

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Design firm accuses Mozilla of UI plagiarism

Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers’ ability to modify the look of their blogs .

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Google tests revamped Blogger layout design tool

The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting today, Friday, March 12, at 8:30 a.m. EST.

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Start your browsers: iPad set to go on pre-sale