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Out-of-this-world Apple iPad 3G has 5 antennas
The new iPad 3G no sooner went on sale Friday than iFixit got to work looking at the tablet computer's insides, which include five antennas to ensure Internet access. Read More


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Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. Learn More

Adobe: 'Not you, too, Microsoft!'
In the military, they call it a pincer movement. Adobe has been attacked on one of its flanks by Apple, which has been dissing its Flash technology for rich Internet applications such as Web video and games. Now, Microsoft is attacking on Adobe's opposite flank, telling the public "the future of the Web is HTML5." Read More

Palin e-mail snoop found guilty on two charges
A federal jury in Knoxville today has convicted David Kernell, 22, of two charges in connection with the 2008 episode where he accessed the personal Yahoo e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and then initiated a worldwide rummaging of its contents. Read More

Lower compliance costs with open source tools
Compliance is difficult and expensive. This is a lesson that enterprise technology leadership has learned through painful years of vendor webcasts promising the moon but delivering buggy products and subpar support. Patch management systems that manage the entire stack, from firmware to operating system to application updates. Read More


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Minimize Datacenter Costs with Server Offload
This technical guide helps you learn how to reduce your server costs up to 60%. You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More!

Google: Crank up the heat in your data center
Google's top energy executive has offered some simple steps for making data centers more energy-efficient, including raising the thermostat to 80 degrees Fahrenheit -- or 27 degrees Celsius -- to cut down on cooling costs. Read More

Google explains why it became an energy trader
Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers. Read More

Citrix downplays Red Hat's decision to drop Xen
Citrix CTO and longtime Xen proponent Simon Crosby says he is unfazed by Red Hat's decision to drop the Xen hypervisor from its enterprise Linux software, claiming it won't harm Xen's standing in the virtualization market. Read More


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Geolocation and Application Delivery
Both business and technical stakeholders will find value and a broad range of uses for the highly accurate data available from a trusted third-party geolocation provider, especially when the data is integrated into a Unified Application and Data Delivery platform. This Whitepaper has all the details. Read More!

Health IT funding to create 50,000 jobs
Speaking at a conference in Boston, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology said that as many as 50,000 new jobs would be created through government dollars aimed at implementing electronic medical records. Read More

NASA: James Cameron to develop 3D camera for Mars rover
Movie director James Cameron, of Avatar and Titanic fame, is helping to build a 3-D camera for the next robotic rover that NASA will send to Mars. Read More

The driver of video calling will be social, not technological
Here at the Cool Tools labs we've been playing around with a pair of high-definition Webcams from Tandberg, and some others are on the way as well. We started to utilize software from Applian Technologies that can record Skype video calls, in order for our editors to conduct one-on-one video interviews with industry experts and vendors who can't make it to our offices. Read More



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