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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Clearwire network down for hours; Hackers find home in Amazon's EC2; Microsoft's top product releases of 2009

Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloud; Microsoft's most important product releases for 2009
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Clearwire network down for hours in handful of cities

Clearwire customers in a handful of locations were unable to get online for several hours due to a network outage late Tuesday. Read full story

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Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloud
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure.

Microsoft's most important product releases for 2009
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'Cool stuff' 2009 holiday gift guide
The best HDTVs, laptops, smartphones and some surprise goodies to give this year.

Microsoft getting better at Patch Tuesday updates, experts say
All told, Microsoft released 74 patches in 2009 and while some months were worse than others (such as October), security experts say the software giant seems to be refining and improving the process of explaining and pushing out patches.

Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others form cloud computing group
A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing.

Cisco still open to IBM partnership
Cisco Systems tried to partner with major server vendors several years ago before coming out with its own blade servers earlier this year, and it's still open to a partnership with IBM, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday.

'Magic Quadrant' whiner just won't quit
Only a grim sense of duty prompts me to note this latest development in a lawsuit that gives frivolous a bad name.

Red Hat open sources desktop application protocol
Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol it acquired last year, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE), in the hope of fostering its wider adoption.

Apple appeals $21.7 million judgment in patent dispute over caching technology
Not too long after winning a significant legal battle against Psystar, Apple recently found itself on the losing end of a $21.7 million judgment stemming from a patent dispute with OPTI relating to predictive caching technology.

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