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    Dell ditches RIM: BlackBerry's bad year just got worse

    06 November, 2010 08:05
    RIM was dealt bad news by Dell who says it will outfit 25,000 employees with its upcoming Venue Pro smartphone.
    Dell dumped RIM's BlackBerry as its business smartphone and announced that it would be supplying 25,000 of its employees with the Windows 7-powered Dell Venue Pro. The move is yet more gloom for RIM that has already been having a stinker of a bad year.
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    FBI watching Oracle-SAP trial

    06 November, 2010 08:03
    SAP has said the FBI and the DOJ are both investigating the circumstances that led to Oracle's lawsuit
    An FBI agent has been in the courtroom each day this week watching the Oracle-SAP trial, suggesting U.S. law enforcement continues to take an interest in the case.
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    Digital afterlife beckons from cloud-based service

    06 November, 2010 07:51
    With Intellitar, you can create an online version of yourself for future generations to talk to
    People who die in Hollywood movies often find themselves floating around on a cloud as angels. Now a startup in Huntsville, Alabama, will let you go to a different kind of cloud after you die: the computing kind.
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    Black Hat promises new exploit techniques, Stuxnet insight

    06 November, 2010 06:27
    The well-known security conference kicks off on Monday in Abu Dhabi
    The Black Hat security conference will kick off in Abu Dhabi on Monday with new information revealed about the Stuxnet malicious software program along with other cutting-edge research.
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    Italy to remove public Wi-Fi restrictions

    06 November, 2010 05:54
    Businesses that want to offer Wi-Fi access will no longer need a special license from the police
    Italy will remove existing restrictions on public Wi-Fi access to the Internet starting in January, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni announced Friday.
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    'Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate

    06 November, 2010 05:45
    A paper released late Thursday applauds the FCC for examining net neutrality and managed services
    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow for an open Internet separate from specialized services that may prioritize IP traffic, a group of Internet and technology pioneers have recommended.
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    Firefox 4 Beta for mobile still rough around the edges

    06 November, 2010 05:32
    The latest Firefox 4 Mobile beta for Android and Maemo promises more speed, but it's not ready to replace the default browser
    The latest Firefox 4 Mobile beta for Android and Maemo promises more speed and a fresher look, but it's still not ready to replace the default browser.
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    IE zero-day doesn't make the cut for patch Tuesday

    06 November, 2010 05:24
    Microsoft is planning to release three updates for Patch Tuesday, but the IE zero-day vulnerability isn't on the list
    Microsoft published its advanced notification for next week's Patch Tuesday. The good news for the November updates is that there are will only be three security bulletins -- a relatively calm month following a record-breaking October. The bad news is that the recently discovered IE zero-day is not one of the vulnerabilities being fixed.
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    Bloglines shutdown avoided, as MerchantCircle swoops in

    06 November, 2010 05:14
    Ask.com is transferring the operation of the RSS service, but retaining its ownership
    Pioneer RSS feed manager Bloglines will continue operating thanks to a last-minute agreement for MerchantCircle to take over operation of the service from Ask.com.
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    Kinect Gets Disconnected In Teardown

    06 November, 2010 05:10
    Kinect, Microsoft's new motion control gaming system, launched across America this Thursday. And as is the case with any new and noteworthy tech product, the folks over at iFixit got straight to work on taking the Kinect apart, all in the name of geek curiosity.
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    Cloud computing: Why you can't ignore chargeback

    06 November, 2010 04:45
    Chargeback in the cloud computing arena is the same kind of highly granular pricing associated with use of internal resources.
    One of the most controversial issues in cloud computing is chargeback: pricing consumed resources on a granular basis. Amazon posts its prices publicly for all to see -- so much for compute, so much per gigabyte sent over the network, etc. Chargeback in the cloud computing arena is the same kind of highly granular pricing associated with use of internal resources.
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    Why cloud won't kill IT outsourcing or consulting

    06 November, 2010 04:35
    A.T. Kearney's Arjun Sethi stated that cloud computing will ultimately end traditional IT outsourcing.
    In a recent interview with CIO magazine, A.T. Kearney's Arjun Sethi stated that cloud computing will ultimately end traditional IT outsourcing. In Arjun's opinion, the likes of Xerox, HP and Accenture, as well as Indian outsourcing vendors like Infosys and TCS, are potentially in peril.
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    Adobe issues update for Flash, warning for Reader

    06 November, 2010 04:20
    Adobe was busy this week -- releasing an update for a Flash flaw and posting news of a security vulnerability in Adobe Reader
    Yesterday was sort of a busy day for Adobe security. Of course, that doesn't seem like such an uncommon occurrence these days. Adobe issued an update to address a security flaw in Flash, and followed up with a new security advisory about a vulnerability impacting Adobe Reader.
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    Zeus Trojan defeats Microsoft security tool

    06 November, 2010 04:13
    Malicious Software Removal Tool bypassed by Zeus 2.1, says Trusteer
    Only weeks after Microsoft added anti-Zeus Trojan detection to its free Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), it is unable to detect the latest versions, a rival security company has claimed.
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    ERP woes blamed for lumber company's bad quarter

    06 November, 2010 04:13
    Workers' trouble learning the SAP system drove down productivity and potential sales
    Lumber Liquidators is attributing a weak third quarter to a complex SAP implementation, saying the project imposed a significant drain on worker productivity. But the problems appear to be largely related to employees having trouble acclimating to the new system, versus malfunctions in the software itself.
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    Microsoft's Silverlight damage control intensifies

    06 November, 2010 03:42
    Two executives say a new version of Silverlight is planned, but they back Muglia's assertion that HTML5 is a key all-device platform
    More Microsoft executives are chiming in this week about the company's commitment to the Silverlight rich Internet application platform, after comments from another executive had raised questions about Silverlight's future.
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    Free version of BES now available for Notes

    06 November, 2010 02:39
    RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express edition now supports Domino servers in addition to Exchange
    Research in Motion today released a free version of its BlackBerry Express Server (BES) for IBM Domino servers, which run Lotus Notes. The Express version allows an unlimited number of users but has a subset of the mobile management tool's policies: 75 out of the full version's more than 500 policies.
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    Google Instant for mobile: First impressions

    06 November, 2010 02:37
    Taking Google's newest search tool on the road is handy, but not without shortcomings.
    Google recently launched a beta version of Instant, the company's search solution that displays results as you type, for Android and Apple iOS 4 mobile devices. For now, the beta test is available only to users in the U.S. and you can access it only through your handset's browser instead of Google's mobile apps. To try it out, just go to Google.com from your mobile device and then click the "Turn on" link for Google Instant located below the search box.
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    A quarter of SMEs fail to get best from IT, research finds

    06 November, 2010 02:20
    Only a third have e-commerce strategies
    Although almost all SMEs consider IT to be crucial to business success, over a quarter admit they do not know enough about IT and how to make it work for their business, according to HP research.
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    SOA's not dead says Burton

    06 November, 2010 02:13
    The Lazarus effect - two years after obituary written
    SOA is set for a comeback according to analyst company, Burton. Nearly two years ago, it was a Burton analyst, Anne Thomas Manes, who proclaimed that SOA was dead but it appears that reports of its demise have been exaggerated.
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