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Data suggests 'value' in switches comes from many factors
Flash memory, virtualization and cloud computing targeted by innovative new storage companies
Twitter's support for bit.ly among the problems cited by the service operator.
Don't just sit there. It's time to position your IT department for the economic upturn, whenever it comes.
A CIO is waging a campaign to cut office e-mail traffic by 25%.
It's easy to make mistakes deploying unified communications systems. Here are the lessons learned by four IT managers.
These self-healing nets are fast and reliable
Some interest groups are urging Los Angeles to rethink its plan to implement Google Apps.
Analysts say that Google should easily fend off the combined effort of its rivals.
Samsung is launching the i7500 in Taiwan a day before HTC is set to debut the Hero
Inside track by bit.ly meant 'game over,' says Nambu Network
After a promised July 1 launch, the unlimited mobile phone service has hit more delays
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski’s departure is effective today
Support for social-networking applications is the main draw for users to purchase a smartphone
Software vendor tells an antitrust judge it will change the way IE 8 is installed
Microsoft's Web-based productivity applications will run most reliably on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari
'Super-small screen' and 'certain processor' limits aim to boost revenues, says CEO
As open source gets more commercial, GPL's idealism is overridden by developers' business needs
Facebook posts on current and past relationships can prove tempting to partners
Microsoft to change IE8's setup process tomorrow; Mozilla, Opera protested default browser hijacking
Study finds fear that tweets or Facebook posts could lead to major security nightmare
Apple support forum flooded with complaints for weeks
FriendFeed will continue to act independently until the two companies decide how to integrate their products, they said
Unofficial site takes feature/fix requests, lets users vote on ideas
Visual Studio versions add capabilities for this growing paradigm that seeks to better utilize multicore processors
Deal focuses on building applications for cloud platforms
Nvidia licenses SLI technologies to Intel for multi-GPU systems
The virtualization vendor and SpringSource, founder of the Spring Framework for Java development, plan to develop integrated platform-as-a-service technologies
Web 2.0 and Internet services companies see the fast, efficient technology changing their data centers
They think it's too similar to Microsoft Office
Tentatively sets release of minor upgrade for November
Deal is valued at approximately $530 million
The agency wants input on the state of U.S. broadband and how it should be measured
The attacks kept coming all day Friday and may continue during the weekend
Speed, security have lifted Foxit Reader's user base to 70 million
Increasing language enrollments may signal future U.S. workers to apply for jobs in San Francisco, Delhi and Dubai
Typhoon rains are already easing a drought that had led to water restrictions in some parts of Taiwan
The company has long offered its Java-based office software
The record companies bought their shares for a pittance last year
Powerchip plans to start producing more DDR3 DRAM chips, which are in short supply
