Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced new blade and rack servers designed to deliver more performance while combining hardware and software capabilities to improve server reliability and lower energy costs.
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Business intelligence projects fared well at the 2010 Computerworld Honors program, which recognizes IT projects that benefit society.
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Fiberlink Communications thinks it can cut patch management costs for IT departments with a new cloud-based service.
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration will seek to aggressively enforce its intellectual property laws by putting pressure on countries that don’t shut down piracy Web sites and by requiring all government contractors to check for illegal software, the White House announced.
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WiMax service provider Clearwire raised more than US$290 million in a rights offering that expired on Monday, building up its war chest as it continues to deploy a national 4G network.
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Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
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Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security’s Web application firewall together with Trustwave’s own enterprise security tools.
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Google’s telephony management application Google Voice is now open to all U.S. residents, as the company on Tuesday removed the requirement for prospective users to receive an invitation in order to sign up for the service.
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The U.S. needs local education and training programs and better computer reuse programs to overcome a large broadband adoption gap, speakers at a broadband adoption forum said Tuesday.
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Eric Boehs believed that he had accidentally thrown away his iPhone and iPad. Alas, that’s not exactly what happened.
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Scientists suddenly realize that robots need ethics.
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The iPhone’s address book, which is accessible through both the Phone application and the Contacts application, helps you keep all of your contact information organized and easily at hand. But what if you want to enter information that’s not just a name, address, phone number, or e-mail?
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Symantec announced several enhancements to its storage management suite of software, its cluster file and cluster server system, that include the ability to recognize solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as full integration with Hyper-V.
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As it promised in October, Google has now started to add search results in real-time to its engine, giving end-users the option of seeing relevant links that have just been added to its index.
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The company, which has been silent while waiting to be acquired by Oracle, will discuss Java EE 6 and other software on Thursday
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For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to take a hard look at how it enforces consumer privacy standards in the coming months, with new rules for online companies possibly on the way, the agency’s chairman said Monday.
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If you thought you just heard a disturbance in the Force–as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced–then take a deep breath and relax: it’s just a pair of Java software updates for Mac OS X.
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A Palm Pre user is suing Palm and Sprint Nextel, alleging they caused him to lose most of the data from his phone, and he wants to turn the suit into a class action.
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With an assist from Microsoft, SAP is making a renewed push against Oracle in the EPM (enterprise performance management) space, and has a rip-and-replace success story to show for it.
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A security researcher reports that Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers have the most insecure browser password managers.
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Alcatel-Lucent is naming enterprises as one of three markets it will focus on as it lays off 1,000 more workers and makes cuts in other areas in an attempt to turn the company around.
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Microsoft will present in February 2009 the new phone made in partnership with Nvidia
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The FCC cancelled a Dec. 18 meeting after two lawmakers warned the agency it should focus on the digital TV transition.
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Google Friday replaced Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox with its own Chrome as the default browser in the English version of Google Pack , the search company’s application bundle for Windows.
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The US video game industry recorded growth of 10 percent in November despite the recession that is ravaging other sectors of the economy, NPD said Thursday.
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Telecommunications is, by most analyst’s accounts, one of a relative handful of industries that continue to do well during the recession, but Nortel apparently hasn’t gotten the memo.
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An unpatched vulnerability found in Internet Explorer 7 also affects older versions of the browser as well as the latest beta version, Microsoft warned.
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EU officials are debating what distinguishes a printer from a copier, or a phone from a TV. The distinction could add up to 14 percent in duty to product prices
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DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess.
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There are now two vital resources for Virtualization Administrators, the VMware Bookshelf and Top Virtualization Security Links.
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Mobile service providers AT&T and T-Mobile have been banned from saying that their voicemail systems are safe from sabotage after agreeing to permanent injunctions filed in a Los Angeles court.
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Sharp plans to close two LCD production lines in Japan as part of a corporate reorganization.
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While the fracas over the censoring of a Wikipedia page in the U.K. has somewhat subsided, the case has imparted a confusing message to Internet users about what is considered an indecent image, according to one legal expert.
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With CIOs reporting budget revisions, market analysts slashing expectations for tech sector growth, and companies as diverse as Yahoo, Hynix, Texas Instruments and Sony cutting sales forecasts and jobs this week, there is no bottom clearly in sight for IT.
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Nortel has hired lawyers to consider whether it should seek bankruptcy protection, but the company says it has made no decision to do so.
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Verizon Wireless expects to begin deploying next-generation LTE wireless broadband within a year, a top executive of the carrier said Tuesday.
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Microsoft unveiled an online service that can be used to collect and share bits of information from various Web pages.
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IT employment in the U.S. dropped in November after months of bucking national employment trends in other industries, said the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB).
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