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BlackBerry devices hit with ongoing data issues 10 March 2010 at 7:50 am by admin

Some BlackBerry users are complaining of an inability to use data services for two days in a row. It appears that the issue could be related to two separate problems. While some users seemed to be back in business late Tuesday, others were still having problems

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+ Microsoft skips patch for PowerPoint add-on By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:39 am and have No Comments

Microsoft fixed eight flaws in Windows and Office Tuesday, but passed on patching one Windows component because it cannot be automatically updated.

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+ EFF dubs Apple a ‘jealous feudal lord’ over iPhone dev contract By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:29 am and have No Comments

Apple’s agreement with iPhone developers contains several “troubling” clauses that paint the company as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday. The nonprofit digital rights advocacy group on Tuesday published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer License Agreement obtained from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request

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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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+ Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing By admin 10 March 2010 at 5:42 am and have No Comments

Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.

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+ IT gives Windows 7 the green light By admin 10 March 2010 at 5:00 am and have No Comments

Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista — but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella, says his IT team began beta testing Vista’s successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP

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+ Google opens Google Apps Marketplace By admin 09 March 2010 at 9:00 pm and have No Comments

Google will launch on Tuesday evening Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google’s own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gmail, Documents, Sites and Calendar.

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+ Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger By admin 09 March 2010 at 5:06 pm and have No Comments

Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. “Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean),” Phipps wrote. “I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there (I joined at JavaOne in 2000) and my 5th anniversary as Chief Open Source Officer.”

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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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+ Modular data centers: A fast, secretive option that’s spreading By admin 09 March 2010 at 2:53 pm and have No Comments

When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its data center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: A containerized data center.

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