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Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake

Is that an antenna in your pocket or ...? | Palo Alto earns short list status

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Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
The earthquake that struck the East Coast on Tuesday should serve as a wake-up call about the frailty of our aging infrastructure, and it should stir businesses to create or update business continuity plans. Read More


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How to Build a Flexible Private Cloud
This 24-page guide looks at the infrastructure of the private cloud. Traditional networks limit server flexibility and increase workload. This guide reveals new fabric architectures that virtualize connectivity to accelerate management by 100X. Learn about the technologies and the key points you need to compare products. Click to continue

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Is that an antenna in your pocket or ...?
Ohio State University researchers armed with sewing machines and computers have come up with a way to weave radio antennas into clothing in an effort to give wearers more flexible and reliable communications capabilities. Read More

Palo Alto earns short list status
Palo Alto Networks has injected excitement and innovation into the firewall market with its "next-generation" appliances that combine traditional firewalls, threat mitigation technologies such as anti-malware and intrusion prevention, and the new magic dust of application identification. Read More

A tour of the first-ever Linux Hall of Fame
As part of the 20th anniversary of Linux, the Linux Foundation put together its first ever Linux Hall of Fame exhibit. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud
Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now

HP's PC division, by the (profit and growth) numbers
A quick look at the data shows that market share isn't as important as profit margins. Read More

Thompson Reuters moves payroll, HR data to the cloud
Information and financial services giant Thompson Reuters has more than 55,000 employees spread over 100 countries. Read More

Why You Shouldn't Buy a Discounted TouchPad Tablet
Last week, Hewlett-Packard (HP), current "owner" of the webOS mobile OS, made an announcement that would ultimately send a ripple through the modern tablet PC space: HP said it would immediately "discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones." Read More


WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu

A New Look at Energy-Efficient Servers
The family of PRIMERGY® Intel® Architecturebased servers offers a wide range of capacities, performance, and configurations to fit almost any application service requirements. Read now!

Microsoft Adopts About 1,000 webOS Orphans
Microsoft may be a big company but it's not always going to be caught flat-footed. On the heels of HP's decision to kill off its webOS hardware, Microsoft's Windows Mobile team quickly stepped in to take advantage of the vacuum. Read More

Future TSA: Track All 'Daily Travels To Work, Grocery Stores & Social Events'
When the TSA was asked to provide legal reasons that definitely spelled out why physically invasive patdowns are legal, without any probable cause, not one TSA person had an answer. There was no legal documentation for enhanced patdowns other than it serves "the essential administrative purpose." Read More

Beyond Angry Birds: The 20 Most Acclaimed iPhone/iPad Games
Want games on your iPhone or iPad but unsure of where to start? Here's a handy guide. Read More

NASA: Humanoid robot wakes up on space station
The humanoid robot on board the International Space Station was brought to life on Monday. Read More

Forget innovation, get the basics down
As a technologist I'm always thrilled to be able to work with a computer whenever I go someplace. However, it usually ends in despair because while everyone's trying too hard to make tons of money off of every click, nobody's covering the basics. And not nearly enough people are asking the questions they should and then demanding answers. Read More



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