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Friday, April 23, 2010

Confessions of a tech hoarder

Cisco's move to open-source its Telepresence is genius | Hitachi, Microsoft joins ranks of those selling the "Cisco-less" data center

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Confessions of a tech hoarder
How much hardware do you have hidden in your home's nooks and crannies? Read More


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Cisco's move to open-source its Telepresence is genius
Though Cisco was simply fulfilling a legal requirement when it announced this week it would release the code behind its Telepresence Interoperability Protocol as open source, it surely struck some as baffling. And struck others as good business sense. Read More

Hitachi, Microsoft joins ranks of those selling the "Cisco-less" data center
At the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Hitachi Data Systems demonstrated its soon-to-be released competitor to Cisco's Unified Computing System. Read More

Scammers embrace McAfee fiasco to pitch fake AV
Scammers have piggybacked onto news of a buggy McAfee antivirus update that clobbered thousands of computers, security researchers said today. Read More


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McAfee's DAT 5958 debacle goes on
One day after security vendor McAfee sent out a bad anti-virus update that crippled corporate and consumer Windows-based computers, the suffering wrought by the update, DAT 5958, continues. Read More

Google Docs better; ready to take on Office?
The new version of Google Docs sports considerable collaboration tools, as well as improved editing and formatting, a faster, more useful spreadsheet and new collaborative drawing software. It's a worthwhile upgrade to the Web-based office suite, especially for those to whom collaboration is of vital importance. But because it no longer allows offline access to documents (for now), and because it's still not as powerful as Microsoft Office, it's not likely to knock Office off of its throne as king of the productivity suites. Read More

Asian carriers grab IPv4 addresses at record rate
Network operators in Asia are snapping up IPv4 addresses at a faster rate than ever before, putting more pressure on the Internet industry to upgrade to IPv6, the long-anticipated replacement for IPv4. Read More


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App Store rejects analog clock iPad app
What time is it? Thanks to an App Store rejection of a simple analog clock app for the iPad, we have no way of telling you--which I guess means it's time for another silly rejection story. Read More

IBM creates 1:5 billion scale model of the Matterhorn
IBM researchers in Zurich demonstrated a patterning technique capable of creating structures measuring just 15 nanometers, saying the technology is a simpler and less expensive way to create nanostructures found in semiconductors and other components. Read More

Google throws its weight behind voice
Google is taking advantage of its cloud infrastructure and the huge volume of typed search queries to refine its Voice Search function, part of a massive research effort in voice that spans both mobile devices and the Web. Read More



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