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Steve Jobs to return with better-than-expected iCloud

Posted May 31, 2011 - 12:49 pm

Steve Jobs will emerge from medical leave next week to introduce new versions of MacOS, iOS and a far more robust iCloud than many expected. Probably.
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Rackspace offers hosted virtual desktops from Citrix

Posted May 23, 2011 - 2:52 pm

Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday.
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Report: Large companies shun cloud for some things it does badly at great expense

Posted May 23, 2011 - 12:25 pm

If you wanted to create a low-cost tier of storage for rarely accessed files, would you build a big database that takes a long time to upload and a high cost to maintain?
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IBM, HP demonstrate fidelity problem with 'open' virtualization; KVM? Really?

Posted May 19, 2011 - 12:00 am

OVA is the latest in a long string of vendor consortia designed to back any kind of cloud or virtualization technology that will give IBM, HP and others a chance against VMware.
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BSA tells old joke about software piracy, wants third world to pay for it

Posted May 12, 2011 - 2:02 pm

The BSA issued its annual mis-informational report on software piracy showing that we're squeezing unfair profits out of its members, not the other way around, like we thought.
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Economy is great if you're silicon; not so good if you're looking for a job

Posted May 6, 2011 - 12:00 am

IT components and services show success to party on; U.S. employment market sits quietly by itself in the dark.
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MonkeyBoy is phat track on geekin' rhymes

Posted May 4, 2011 - 1:00 pm

Developers, developers, developers, developers Developers, developers, developers, developers
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Is Cisco prosecution of VAR 'hacker' really persecution of a competitor?

Posted April 21, 2011 - 11:05 am

Canadian courts will decide whether to extradite a VAR for allegedly using a colleague's ID on Cisco sites; lawyer says charges are a big company's phony attempt to pressure the little guy.
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Microsoft's cash haul dwarfed by $500 billion partner revenue

Posted April 8, 2011 - 1:42 pm

The $66.7 billion in revenue taken in by Steve Ballmer and company is nothing compared to what Microsoft's partners earn.
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Novell set to cruft up Android with .Net applications

Posted April 6, 2011 - 3:18 pm

Sure it's a good idea for one tool to build apps for many mobile OSes; no, Android won't look better crusted with bits of drivers and code libraries and other bits of Microsoftia.
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FTC gives Google one more chance to act like a monopoly

Posted April 6, 2011 - 8:27 am

The FTC and Justice Dept. may investigate Google for monopolistic practices, after giving it another chance to use them.
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Go Daddy CEO takes flak for shooting elephant

Posted March 31, 2011 - 12:42 pm

PETA calls for boycott of Go Daddy, the largest domain registrar in the world, which keeps its profile high with jiggle ads and hunting videos.
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Amazon disguises powerful online storage as cloud music service

Posted March 29, 2011 - 4:11 pm

Amazon pitches Cloud Drive to consumers as online music storage to stream MP3s, but it can do a lot more than than, at 60 percent the cost of S3.
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Benefits of cloud: Servers, capacity, storage. Girlfriend?

Posted March 28, 2011 - 4:41 pm

Cloud Girlfriend is fueled by a marketing scheme to promote sites that don't yet exist with good design and a 'Coming soon' label. Masters-caliber vaporware.
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Intel's HP-Oracle-Itanium soap opera: Why you should care

Posted March 25, 2011 - 12:06 pm

The drama among HP, Oracle and Intel over Itanium masks the likelihood that when you do need to migrate, none of the three will make much of a difference.
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Intel woes: Oracle ditches Itanium, mobility group chief quits

Posted March 23, 2011 - 11:30 am

Oracle became the third major developer to abandon high-end Itanium chips just as the guy leading its effort to catch ARM and Nvidia quits.
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Jon Bon Jovi gets it wrong in attack on Apple's Steve Jobs

Posted March 17, 2011 - 11:10 am

With so many legitimate reasons to criticize Jobs, why blame him for killing an industry he actually helped save?
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Tech industry companies are hiring again

Posted March 16, 2011 - 3:50 pm

Sales will get the most new bodies, with R&D in second place, unless you build green tech, the area that needs the most innovation.
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HP's Apotheker promises big profits from new market: cloud

Posted March 15, 2011 - 12:30 pm

HP CEO Leo Apotheker predicts says he can boost profit margins by expanding into the unpopulated, hyper-un-competitive cloud market.
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For new Dells, 'virtualization' is as much a weakness as strength

Posted March 14, 2011 - 4:55 pm

Dell's new virtualization integration stack amounts to software with the drivers to get it to work with the virtualization software that ships with the servers.
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BAE Systems could be barred from selling some tech overseas

Posted March 7, 2011 - 9:10 pm

After years of complaints, BAE is settling charges of bribery and improper transfer of radar technology overseas.
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Upcoming 4G cell net may break national GPS network: Garmin

Posted March 4, 2011 - 3:35 pm

Un-objective party Garmin predicts the LightSquared net will break GPS; it's pure coincidence it might hurt Garmin's location business.
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What's the difference between Microsoft and Amazon?

Posted March 1, 2011 - 2:54 pm

Microsoft and Amazon offer very different cloud services, but they fixate on each other so much their offerings are becoming too much alike.
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Vodafone cell customers cut off after late-night burglary

Posted February 28, 2011 - 3:50 pm

Somewhere between 100,000 and seven million customers were cut off after thieves stole a raft of high-end switches.
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Microsoft manufactures ironic failures

Posted February 24, 2011 - 5:57 pm

Microsoft seems to have been manufacturing ironic failures lately.
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