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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs

Cisco's all right with free FCoE | Google throws 'kill switch' on Android phones

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Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Jets! Cars! Home security services! Find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. Read More


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Cisco's all right with free FCoE
Cisco is unfazed by the realization that Fibre Channel over Ethernet, the storage virtualization technology it helped define, standardize and evangelize, is essentially being given away for free. Read More

Google throws 'kill switch' on Android phones
For only the second time, Google has remotely deleted Android apps from users' phones, moving to erase malware-infected applications that users had downloaded from the Android Market. Read More

iPad 2's Web speed boost coming to other iOS devices this week
A quick and dirty JavaScript speed test of the new iPad 2 gives an early indication of how the tablet's processor, operating system and HTML improvements pay off in terms of performance. Read More


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Using BPM and Business Analytics Together
How do organizations become agile enough to proactively respond to all this change? They require processes, analytics and structures that give them real-time situational awareness into occurrences both inside and outside the organization. Read now!

iPhone 5 to sport aluminum back, redesigned antenna and A5 chip - Report
With the iPad 2 announcement now behind us, it's time to start focusing on Apple's next big release - the iPhone 5. Over the past few months, rumors surrounding Apple's next-gen iPhone have been few and far in between, but the rumors that have surfaced are quite intriguing. Read More

Hungary's new constitution is being drafted on an Apple iPad
While some critics initially called the iPad a content consumption device, the past year has proven that the iPad can more than hold its own as a content creator. Indeed, during last week's iPad 2 event, Apple showcased an iPad video retrospective of sorts, highlighting the myriad of ways iPad owners have been using the device. Read More

China pledges to step up administration of Internet
China says it will step up administration of the Internet this year while continuing to build out the country's fiber-optic backbone and expand broadband access for consumers. Read More


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Layered Tech expands to new markets with CA 3Tera AppLogic
As Layered Tech's customers required more complex services, the cost of servicing them increased. They needed a solution that would enable rapid reaction to hosting demands while helping to lower operating costs. CA 3Tera AppLogic is a turn-key cloud computing platform enabling infrastructure solutions that can dynamically adapt to changing needs. Learn More

Cisco cuts costs of Umi home videoconferencing
Cisco Systems acted to make its Umi home videoconferencing platform more affordable on Monday, slashing the service cost to US$99 per year and announcing a $399 product for slower Internet connections as well as free Mac and PC clients. Read More

Corporate data breach average cost hits $7.2 million
The cost of a data breach went up to $7.2 million last year up from $6.8 million in 2009 with the average cost per compromised record in 2010 reaching $214, up 5% from 2009. Read More

What is privacy, really?
Last issue we examined anonymity in the context of identity issue discussions. Over and over again people confuse anonymity with privacy. As we concluded in that discussion, anonymity means that no one knows who performs a certain activity. Privacy is far different. Read More

AT&T can't take it personally
Gibbs discusses how AT&T wanted to have their corporate cake and eat it. Read More

Google buys British price comparison site Beatthatquote.com
Google has bought Beatthatquote.com, a British website for comparing prices of insurance, utilities and legal services, the companies said Tuesday. Google paid £37.7 million (US$61 million), according to Beatthatquote. Read More



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