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Gibbs ponders how much we're tracked and how much we give away and wonders what the long-term outcome will be; a society of closed lips and constrained behavior, a society economical with the truth, or will it just stay business a usual? Microsoft, researchers release new operating system 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. Barrelfish is an OS written specifically for multicore environments. It hopes to improve the performance of boxes with such chips by creating a network bus, if you will, between cores. Slideshow: Cell towers that blend vs. those that offend
Cell towers are everywhere, but some are more conspicuous than others. Snow Leopard sales off to a roaring start
Despite catching some flack for its camera-less iPod Touch, Apple might take solace in the fact that sales of Snow Leopard have been through the roof, vastly exceeding sales of every major OS X release that preceded it. According to market data released by the research firm NPD, initial sales of Snow Leopard are already double what OS X Leopard sales were when that was released in 2007, and amazingly,... Do Internet micropayments emit enough of a siren song?
Google is offering a new micropayment scheme that purportedly will help newspapers. But will it really? Microsoft "Courier" Tablet: The Right Stuff To Compete Against The Apple Tablet?
More than just photos are leaking out about Courier, Microsoft's booklet sized tablet currently in development. Gizmodo has a video showing the Courier's user interface in action. The Gizmodo video is on YouTube (see below) and you should also check out Gizmodo's article about it. The second video looks at an earlier engineering prototype called Codex, also with very early UI design ideas. Analysts bullish on Cisco data center rival Brocade
The reports are starting to come in from analysts who attended Brocade's annual Analyst Day this week. And those reports indicate growing momentum for the storage networking company and a competitior gaining increasing strength to battle Cisco in the data center. 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.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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