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With vRanger 5.0, Quest has worked to bring full backup capabilities to virtual machines
Attendees at the Mobile World Congress will see the latest smartphones and ways to handle the traffic they generate
Sprint's Kyocera battery life, lack of WiMAX are among the concerns
EU unveils the new common mobile phone charger
Julian Assange's Swedish attorney said text messages throw doubt on the alleged victims' accusations
Study finds identity theft dropped 28% in 2010 - but consumer cost hit rise 68%
Business Objects 4.0 features a rash of improvements, but some users are upset about a dropped feature
NetForecast find a significant gap between what gets measured and what's important
Its agreement with a private satellite communications provider is being reviewed by the government
The ability to deliver optimized content, including games, to smartphones will be key in the future, according to HTC
The program was introduced in the country with a lot of fanfare but takeup has been slow
FCoE is now often bundled with 10G Ethernet gear for free due to market indifference and immaturity.
HP and Cisco were working together on data center standards in the IEEE, but HP claims "Cisco decided to change the scope and it broke a lot of the cooperation."
Company grows up, also adding thin provisioning, data tiering tools
Olsen pioneered the move from mainframes to minicomputers.
HP is delaying shipments of new Pavilion laptops, possibly a result of Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset flaw
Users will be able to run the Gluster file system in virtual machines or on Amazon Web Services
IBM will build a 10-petaflop machine for the U.S. Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory
Olsen remembered as true industry pioneer, setting the stage for Gates, Jobs and others
Caper apparently designed to highlight vulnerability of personal data on social sites
Survey of U.S. subscribers shows Android second behind RIM
Hacktivists Anonymous take down the security expert who threatened to reveal their identity
Although Verizon iPhone device has CDMA-only antenna, its chipset is dual mode
Company simplifies overall look and feel of GUIs
Big question is whether new CDMA iPhones will be part of June WWDC keynote slate
Verisign helping feds with deployment of emerging DNS security protocol
Last year it sold out in 50 days, Google says
Google confirms release of regional product manager Wael Ghonim
The agency will launch a proceeding to revamp the Universal Service Fund this week, Genachowski says
Produced by Kyocera, the Echo smartphone is to be launched tonight, WSJ says
Troublesome 2010 update needs yet another fix, likely ships Tuesday
The company is looking to expand distribution channels
But it has a way to go to match U.S. in IT spending
IT pros who are over 55, especially women, face long-term joblessness. Cloud and healthcare expertise are pluses these days.
Analysts say any government could shut down Internet access in a national emergency, so IT execs need a plan of action.
Continued growth expected in 2011 with wider range of smartphone prices
