Artistic cell towers; Citrix plotting desktop virtualization blitz; Microsoft’s project Barrelfish

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Feds eye workplace models of Google, Facebook The U.S. Office of Personnel Management wants to improve the working conditions of government employees by increasing telecommuting and incorporating some of the best ideas in Silicon Valley to change the workplace atmosphere. Microsoft, researchers release OS project Barrelfish You've likely heard of Microsoft's next-gen operating system projects Midori and Singularity, but earlier this month researchers released a prototype for another OS, code-named Barrelfish. John Chambers slams Cisco with $2.3 million private jet expense Brad Reese: Fiscal 2009 was the worst economy in John Chambers' lifetime, yet he had no guilt about sticking Cisco with $2.3 million in extravagant traveling expenses. What to do about bandwidth hogs? InTown Suites, a low-cost extended-stay living chain, had a problem with users of file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Here's how they solved the problem. Apple expected to unveil new iMacs by mid-October Apple will refresh its iMac line within a matter of weeks and will unveil the first revamp of the all-in-one desktop's exterior since mid-2007, a prominent Apple enthusiast site reported. Facebook still towers over Twitter Numbers, simple numbers. While Twitter attracts all the media and celebrity attention, Facebook continues to dwarf its 140-character counterpart. The Pingdom blog goes over some of those numbers. Twitter reportedly valued at $1 billion in new deal Twitter is nearing a deal for as much as US$100 million from a group of investors who say they believe the Internet short messaging giant is worth about $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) 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