TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders

Microsoft Corp. is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers. http://www.itworld.com/Tech/5051/070906windowsmedia/index.html 

NEWS
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Nokia, Intel beef up new security appliance
http://security.itworld.com/4363/070906nokia/page_1.html

Intel gets ready for Penryn, may release Silverthorne early http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2076/070906penryn/index.html

IBM touts server with embedded virtualization
http://utilitycomputing.itworld.com/4824/070906ibmvirtualization/page_1.html

HP announces new gaming PCs, iPaqs
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1214/070906hpipaq/index.html

Wikipedia blocked in China yet again
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/070906wikipedia/index.html

WINDOWS TIP
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Rebuilding the Outlook search index
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

If you're using Outlook 2007, and searching for a contact in the Outlook Contacts list, and coming up empty, try rebuilding the index on your machine. It worked for me. Here's how. http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4373/nlswindows070904/page_1.html

CAREER
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Leading Reasons Why CIOs Get Fired

Every CIO should become familiar with the facts about why some contemporaries at other organizations get fired. Sometimes an enterprise simply hires the wrong person. Other times the CIO simply falls down on the job. http://www.itstrategycenter.com/itworld/Board/peers/leading_reasons_why_cios_get_fired/index.html