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Best tools for testing website performance

Posted February 15, 2012 - 5:37 pm

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Event shows the many faces, challenges of big data

Posted February 15, 2012 - 4:04 pm

The burgeoning tech industry movement around big data is churning up a variety of new applications, but remains an evolving field that faces lingering challenges, judging from an event held Wednesday at a Microsoft research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android

Posted February 15, 2012 - 3:29 pm

WebOS could be an important player in the long run as an open-source mobile OS because Android could become closed source with Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday.
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See the Dock in fullscreen Mac applications

Posted February 15, 2012 - 3:19 pm

Here's how to see and use the Dock while running fullscreen applications in Mac OS X.
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Remove items from the Sidebar

Posted February 15, 2012 - 3:11 pm

Here's how to rid yourself of troublesome items in the Finder's sidebar.
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Close all Finder windows

Posted February 15, 2012 - 3:05 pm

Here's how to quickly close all Finder windows on your Mac.
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Arrange apps in Finder by category

Posted February 15, 2012 - 3:02 pm

Here's how you can view your Mac's applications arranged by category.
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Rackspace soon to partner with developers of private OpenStack distros

Posted February 15, 2012 - 2:23 pm

Rackspace expects to soon announce commercial private OpenStack distributions that it will support as part of its Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition set of services.
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Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud

Posted February 15, 2012 - 2:18 pm

The social games company sees Amazon Web Services as a 'four-door sedan' and its own network as a sports car
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Ubuntu and Slackware named top desktop Linux distros

Posted February 15, 2012 - 1:11 pm

The world of desktop Linux is often portrayed these days as a battle primarily between longstanding leader Ubuntu and up-and-coming challenger Linux Mint, frequently with the suggestion that Mint is winning.
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Oracle preps MySQL Cluster for Web use

Posted February 15, 2012 - 8:03 am

Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases.
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Five good reasons to download LibreOffice 3.5

Posted February 15, 2012 - 7:47 am

After many months of widespread anticipation, the Document Foundation on Tuesday announced the arrival of LibreOffice 3.5, the third major release of its free and open source office productivity suite.
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Android loses market share,as Apple has exceptional quarter, Gartner says

Posted February 15, 2012 - 6:00 am

Android lost smartphone market share for the first time, as Apple had a great fourth quarter buoyed by the launch of the iPhone 4S, according to data from market research company Gartner.
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Yahoo faces board challenge from activist shareholder

Posted February 14, 2012 - 9:45 pm

Activist Yahoo shareholder Daniel Loeb has rejected the slate of board candidates put forth by the company's newly minted CEO, serving notice of his intention to lobby for his own candidates instead.
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Nortel executives knew of data breach, chose to do nothing

Posted February 14, 2012 - 7:57 pm

The data breach into Nortel's data systems was known to company executives, including the CEO, for over a decade, but the company refused to take steps to prevent data loss.
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Microsoft quashes 21 bugs, blocks drive-by attacks

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:59 pm

Microsoft today issued nine security updates that patched 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Office, .Net, Silverlight and SharePoint Server, including several critical bugs that can be exploited with drive-by attacks.
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HP gives Vertica a fresh face

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:41 pm

Hewlett-Packard's Vertica subsidiary has updated its real-time analytics software, giving it a graphical user interface and connectivity to big-data-styled analysis systems.
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JetBrains open-sources Kotlin language

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:38 pm

Built as a general-purpose language, Kotlin can be compiled to the JVM or JavaScript
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Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe send patches for Valentine's Day

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:27 pm

The Valentine's Day 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday is upon us, and Microsoft has come forward with details on the nine bulletins it previewed last week.
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Two-thirds of Google+ users are men

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:27 pm

Google+ really is a man's social network.
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Turn off scroll bars in Microsoft Word

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:15 pm

Here's how you can disable horizontal or vertical scroll bars in Microsoft Word.
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Turn off status bar in Microsoft Word

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:11 pm

Here's how you can turn off the status bar in Microsoft Word.
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Use distraction-free mode in Microsoft Word

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:06 pm

Here's how you can write using Word without letting distractions slow you down.
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Change default folder for Microsoft Word files

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:00 pm

Here's how you can change the default folder that Microsoft Word uses to save your documents.
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Change default save format in Microsoft Word

Posted February 14, 2012 - 3:51 pm

How's how to make word auto-save your documents in .doc format instead of .docx.
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