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Interop: Microsoft Goes Green With Efficient Code, Employee Bus Line
Microsoft plans to work more closely with independent software developers to help them build applications that don't draw CPU cycles unnecessarily.
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Apple's Success Brings More Patent Lawsuits
During the first four months of 2008, Apple was named as a defendant in eight patent infringement lawsuits, up from five during the same period in 2007.
Microsoft Blames Poor Coding Practices For Massive SQL Injection Attack
U.S. CERT recommends disabling JavaScript and ActiveX because of attacks that have compromised legitimate Web sites using Microsoft IIS Web Server and Microsoft SQL Server.
Interop: Dell Preloads Server For Software Appliance Market
The company expects the CR100 to be used mostly for e-mail, Web security, and infrastructure management, such as for acceleration, monitoring, and management.
Interop: Microsoft Goes Green With Efficient Code, Employee Bus Line
Microsoft plans to work more closely with independent software developers to help them build applications that don't draw CPU cycles unnecessarily.
FCC: Issues Kept Bidders From 700 MHz Safety Spectrum
An agency report says fears of payments defaulting if negotiations failed as well as the costs of building out and operating the D block kept companies away.
Apple Updates iMacs Amid Booming Sales
In addition to faster processors, the new iMacs are rated EPEAT Silver and meet the Energy Star 4.0 requirements for power consumption.
Nokia's New Phones: Built For Comfort And Speed
The mobile phone maker announced three phones with features including facial contours, tap-sensitive response, and background noise cancellation.
Verizon's Earnings Jump Thanks To Wireless Growth
Verizon Wireless unit recorded 1.5 million net customer additions, and Verizon's FiOS TV service signed up 263,000 net new customers.
Forrester Predicts Slow Year For Government IT Spending
The report found that 43% of governments are working with flat budgets this year, while 40% have bigger budgets than last year.
IBM, Cambridge Push For Increased Funding For Service Innovation
The report encourages universities to offer courses in service science, management, and engineering and urges governments to provide more funds for research.
AMD Launches Business-Class Chips
Advanced Micro Devices introduced seven processors designed for business desktop PCs, and plans to later offer chips for business notebooks.
Wall St. Analysts See Microsoft Bid Going Hostile
An overwhelming majority of Wall Street analysts see Microsoft preparing shortly to launch a hostile bid for Yahoo at its current price of $31 per share in cash and stock, a Reuters poll found.
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Virtualization At The Desktop?
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The BI Explosion
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Treadmill Desk: It's Crazy - But Is It Crazy Enough To Be A Good Idea?
A treadmill desk is a desk that doesn't have a chair, but instead has a treadmill in front of it. The theory is that you stand up and walk while you work or play on your computer, getting exercise while going digital. When I first heard this idea, I thought the idea was completely insane. But the more I hear about it, the more it make sense to me, and I think I'll give it a try.
Blyk Hits 100K Subscriber Mark, Calls Itself Success
Well, whaddya know. "Free" services just might actually work. The U.K.-based MVNO Blyk -- which targets 16- to 24-year-olds -- recently met its one-year subscriber goal after just six months in operation. Blyk offers free voice minutes and text messages in exchange for ads appearing on cell phones. Does this mean mobile advertising has more traction than thought, or that kids like free stuff?
The $3 Billion Electricity Bill
How much are you paying to run your servers? A study on server electricity consumption says the utility bill for U.S. servers came to nearly $3 billion dollars.
Windows XP Service Pack 3
While there's not a lot of big news or fanfare surrounding the imminent release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, there are a number of interesting security enhancements.
Mac Users: Smart Or Smug?
Last week, I heard an interesting Marketplace Radio segment about Mac users: "A new marketing study has found Mac owners tend to think they're more extraordinary than the average Joe. They're also more likely than PC users to whiten their teeth, drive hybrids, drink Starbucks coffee, and eat organic food."
Life Inside The One-Man (Or Woman) IT Shop
Got a lot on your plate? How would you like to be the IT shop? While the common belief is that one-person IT departments are typically the stuff of start-ups and mom-and-pop businesses, that's not always the case.
Google Beefs Up Presentations' Power
Google's online PowerPoint application, called Presentations, just met with some great new -- and much needed -- features. First is the addition of speaker notes, which is something I sorely missed about two weeks ago when I was putting together a presentation. Google also added the ability to embed YouTube videos into Presentations, and its Gears roll-out now expands to Presentations as well.
iPhone Reports: 3G, GPS, Haptics
Here's a trio of reports that festered over the weekend. First covers news of Foxconn's contract to build the 3G iPhone, second shows that the next iPhone will support true GPS, and the last tells us that the next version of the iPhone will have microvibration feedback -- otherwise known as haptics.
Web 2.0 Expo Reveals: Mobile Is The New Desktop, Social Nets The New Media Companies
Remember, you read it here first. Wolfe's three laws of the brave new Web 2.0 world are: Mobile is the new desktop, the home page is dead, and social networks like Facebook and MySpace presage the media company of the future. These catchy Web 2.0 catch-phrases popped into my head during a heavy week of session-sitting at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Here's why I'm optimistic that those of us who are ready to embrace the virtual future are going to be in for a fun ride.
Web 2.0: Changing Affiliate Marketing
Sometimes you just need to change the rules to stay on message. So when a panel of affiliate marketing experts and consultants convened Tuesday to discuss their industry and how it can evolve and mesh with Web 2.0 ideas, we had to know more.
Fake Steve Jobs Rocked The House At Web 2.0
The most trenchant observation at the Web 2.0 Expo came from Dan Lyons, the Forbes editor better known as Fake Steve Jobs.
The Weekly Watch On Content Management
Leading off this installment of The Weekly Watch is Alfresco, a company that's proven there's plenty of innovation left in the enterprise content management (ECM) sector. Alfresco sent InformationWeek some of its recent accomplishments and a few grabbed our attention.
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IT Automation: Moving IT from Panic Mode to Managed Mode
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How much are you paying to run your servers? A study on server electricity consumption says the utility bill for U.S. servers came to nearly $3 billion dollars.