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Blue Christmas For Window 7 Sales?
Family Pack discounts to reappear in October as Win7 adoption curve starts to flatline.

RELATED INSIGHTS
• Windows 7 Revealed
• Windows 7 Surpasses Vista, XP Still Dominates
• Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Revealed

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VMware's Maritz Predicts Hybrid Cloud Future
Private clouds inside the enterprise will trade workloads with similar, VMware-based public clouds rendering physical data centers "quite fluid," according to CEO Paul Maritz.

Google Sued Over Nexus One Troubles

A Nexus One owner claims Google made misleading claims about the phone's 3G capabilities and failed to provide adequate support.

Apple Previews iOS 4.1 And 4.2 For iPad

During Apple's event on Wednesday, it said iPhone users can expect iOS 4.1 to arrive next week with new features. iPad owners will need to wait a bit longer for iOS 4.2 to arrive.

Wyse Intros PocketCloud For Android
App, previously available only for Apple devices, allows smartphone users to remotely access a virtualized desktop or PC.

R.R. Donnelley Sues HP For Patent Infringement
"Partners" set to battle it out in court for control of key printing technologies.

Apple Shows New iPods, Reveals TV Strategy

MP3 music players get an iPhone-style technology boost, and Steve Jobs discloses major content partnerships for Apple TV.

AutoCAD Returns To Mac
Autodesk's 3D engineering design software coming to Apple computers after a 20-year absence, with new mobile apps for iPad, iPhone.

Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider
NeoSpire's director of security, Sean Bruton, discusses the realities of cloud security and the key questions to ask when assessing a hosted or cloud service provider's claims.

Global CIO: SAP Stunner: ERP Deal Boosts Customer Profit $100M Per Year
Airgas says its extensive SAP project will raise annual operating profits by at least $75 million and possibly more than $125 million. Here's how.

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Android Is Not Free
By Ed Hansberry
Much has been made recently about the cost of Microsoft's licensing fees for Windows Phone 7 and how it is model out of sync with the realities of today. Android is open source and has no licensing fees, so why would anyone pay Microsoft up to $15 per Windows Phone license when you can pay $0 for Android?

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USB And SMB Is A Risky Mix
By Keith Ferrell
Drive-based threats may pose a larger risk to your business than drive-by attacks -- and USB drives may pose the largest threat of all.

IBM Exec Slams Oracle Over Customer Philosophy
By Bob Evans
Oracle's begun promoting the idea that the IT stack can become much more manageable, much less expensive, and much less complex if CIOs will simply go with all-Oracle stacks. While Oracle says this novel approach is starting to gain traction among customers, IBM senior VP Steve Mills says it's all a bunch of typical Oracle testosterone-driven blather.

ADTRAN Revamps Switch Line
By Paul Korzeniowski
While much attention is being paid to high end converged data center devices, many small and medium businesses still are searching for lower cost, higher performance network switches. In response, ADTRAN, which has been serving that market for 25 years, enhanced its 28-port Gigabit Ethernet switches, so they offer more bandwidth while reducing their size and power consumption.

VMware Has More Of The Market Than IDC Figures Show
By Charles Babcock
VMware isn't letting much moss accumulate under its feet as it continues expanding what it plans to do with its virtualization software portfolio. VMware executives have taken to expressing the expanding horizons of virtualization as a theme. They say they refer customers to "the journey," not one set of limited data center goals.

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Tapping Into Commercial Clouds: An Executive Roundtable
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