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* NEWS FROM STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD (SNW):

Overland Storage rolls out midrange tape library, 04/17/07

Overland Storage Monday announced a tape library that offers high-capacity archiving or backup for small and midsize businesses.

Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter: Storage Networking World in review, Part 1, 04/16/07

Storage Networking World is taking place in San Diego this week and some of the storage vendors there are introducing some really cool things.

* NEWS FROM WEB 2.0 EXPO:

WEB 2.0 – Google to add presentations app to hosted suite, 04/17/07

Google is adding a presentations application to Docs & Spreadsheets, narrowing the competitive space between this productivity and collaboration hosted suite and Microsoft’s Office suite.

WEB 2.0 – JotSpot chief: Google is a nerd paradise, 04/17/07

JotSpot agreed to be acquired by Google partly because the search engine giant is “a nerd’s paradise,” JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus said Monday.

WEB 2.0 – Amazon Web Services losing money, 04/17/07

Amazon.com Inc.’s Web services business isn’t profitable, but it’s growing very rapidly and the company expects it to make money eventually, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said Monday.

WEB 2.0 – Wikis, blogs, RSS aim for the workplace, 04/16/07

As businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, Web mashups, syndicated feeds and blogs, the Web 2.0 Expo opened Sunday in San Francisco with a gaggle of vendors betting these Internet tools belong in the workplace.

Service aims to reduce AJAX programming headaches, 04/16/07

Bungee Labs Monday announced a new on-demand service that is designed to allow Web developers to quickly build rich Internet applications and then use Bungee’s grid to host the applications.

* NEWS FROM INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM (IDF):

IDF – Intel’s Centrino package to get WiMAX next year

Intel Wednesday said it plans to next year add WiMAX to its Centrino platform, a long-expected move likely to boost demand for wireless broadband services.

IDF – Intel processor hits speedy 2 teraflops in demo, 04/17/07

Intel demonstrated its fastest multi-core processor yet at the Spring Intel Development Forum (IDF) in Beijing on Tuesday, an 80-core processor that hit a speedy 2-teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) in a demonstration.

IDF – Intel playing only to top IDF crowd this year, 04/17/07

The world’s largest chip maker is only hosting three of its popular Intel Developer Forums (IDF) this year in an attempt to rein in costs and resources associated with the event.

IDF – Intel emphasizes innovation at IDF, 04/16/07

Intel sought to emphasize its role in innovation in China during a low-key media preview to its Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Monday in Beijing.

IDF – Intel to demonstrate possible DRAM replacement, 04/16/07

Intel CTO Justin Rattner plans to give the company’s first public demonstration of its PRAM (phase-change RAM) technology at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference, which starts Tuesday in Beijing.

IDF – More transmitters, spectrum on the way for mobile, 04/16/07

The use of multiple radios, or wireless transmitters, will push the adoption of mobile technologies, but will require industry coordination and careful construction, an Intel executive said Monday in Beijing.

IDF – Intel offers a look beyond Santa Rosa, 04/16/07

The next version of Intel’s Centrino notebook platform, called Santa Rosa, will hit the market next month, but the company is already looking ahead to other products, including an updated “Santa Rosa refresh” and a quad-core mobile processor set for release next year.

* 2007 TRADE SHOWS:

6th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference 2007

Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center

Washington, DC – April 10-13

Smart Cards for Government and Payment – Mexico 2007

Mexico City, Mexico – May 8 – 9

Gartner Symposium/IT Expo

San Francisco, April 22 – 26

Web 2.0 Expo

San Francisco, April 15 – 18

Storage Networking World

San Diego, April 16 – 19