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Intel invests in social media incubator Betaworks

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:47 +0000

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday.

The investment could help Intel develop better hardware for mobile devices or servers that either access or provide real-time social media services, said Mike Buckley, managing director of Intel Capital. Buckley declined to comment on how much Intel invested in Betaworks.

Microsoft tries to lure NetSuite users with new deal

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:16:40 +0000

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.

NetSuite customers will be credited up to $850 for each user who converts to Dynamics GP, NAV, or SL. The promotion is in effect until June 25 and available to customers in the U.S.

Prototype $200 tablet runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:33:18 +0000

$200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didn't last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo.

Tighter security coming for .org names

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:14:30 +0000

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June -- a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning.

Cisco shows off Internet super-router

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:30:15 +0000

Hyped as the router that would 'change forever the face of the Internet', Cisco has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box it predicts will stream video into the Net's darkest recesses.

IE zero-day exploit code goes public

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:13:28 +0000

Exploit code for the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer was published on the Web yesterday, a step security pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks.

Opera's Mini 5 browser comes to Android

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:32 +0000

Opera has released a beta version of its Mini 5 Web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday.

Just like the versions of the beta for other phones, Opera Mini 5 for Android beta compresses data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone to speed up browsing over low-bandwidth data connections, according to the Norwegian browser company.

Court reaffirms i4i's patent win against Microsoft

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:35:42 +0000

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

Poor Bill Gates: Mexican telecom tycoon grabs Richest Man title

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:30:35 +0000

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:25:04 +0000

Motorola will start loading Microsoft's Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Macs in the enterprise aren't just cheaper to manage -- they're a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance. Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who've bandied together to deploy and manage Macs in the enterprise. The group surveyed 260 IT administrators in large U.S. companies with both Macs and PCs who are involved in some degree with IT cost calculations.

Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Chambers: How I'll make Cisco into IT's biggest player

Galen Gruman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:41:39 +0000

By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development, and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco's reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks. The company offers everything from personal video cameras to high-end telepresence systems to set-top video boxes to, lately, servers for the data center, in addition to more traditional network gear like routers and switches.