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Sun Hardware 'Blows,' According to Oracle Internal Documents
Cisco Takes its Lumps, Keeps Developing Video Meeting Tools
Fri, May 25, 2012 - The Cius tablet is all but dead and rental telepresence suites haven't bloomed, but there's still a future in software, Cisco says
FCC Ruling on 800MHz Band a Boon for Sprint
Fri, May 25, 2012 - The agency removed a limit on channel width in part of the band, allowing Sprint and others to use 3G and 4G
Oracle Netbeans 7.2 Supports the Latest PHP, C++
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Oracle's IDE also provides a conduit to Oracle cloud services
Quickbooks Online Outage Leaves Some Customers in Sour Mood
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Intuit says it has restored all customers, but angry sentiments linger
Cisco all but Kills Cius Tablet Computer
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.
Aged Windows XP Costs 5x More to Manage Than Windows 7
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for the older OS are more than five times that of Windows 7.
Google's Motorola Buy Seen Boosting Android in Workplace
Fri, May 25, 2012 - With the closing of Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week, talk of the possibilities for Android in the enterprise has spiked.
Google Asked to Yank a Million Search Results a Month
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Google received requests to purge more than a million links from its search results in March, according to the search giant's monthly "transparency report."
Dell Windows 8 Tablet Specs Leak
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Don't expect any big surprises out of Dell's first Windows 8 tablet aimed at enterprise users.
IaaS: Renting On-Demand Technology
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
Most Openoffice Users Run Windows
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Nearly 9 out of 10 downloads of the new version of OpenOffice have been for Windows machines, rather than Linux, according to recently released statistics from Apache.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame, with 4G
Fri, May 25, 2012 - Ever been to a sports game and tried to send a text message, upload a photo to Facebook, or send a tweet about that awesome play that just happened? If so, you may have been left frustrated by the overcrowded network that prevented that all-important message from making your friends jealous.
Mayor of New Jersey Town Arrested on Hacking and Conspiracy Charges
Fri, May 25, 2012 - West New York mayor Felix Roque and his son are accused of hacking into a website that promoted his recalling from office
Coding Contest Shows How Big Data Can Improve Health Care
Fri, May 25, 2012 - The website No Sleep Kills looks to use health care data to show how sleep apnea can factor into auto accidents


