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25 techie Valentine's Day gift ideas
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WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Easing the Online Overload
Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now!

Juniper bolsters security assets with $10M buyout of anti-DDoS firm
Juniper Networks has acquired the assets of Webscreen Systems, a developer of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation products, from Accumuli of the United Kingdom. Read More

Another new release date for Galaxy S 4, but is Samsung battening down the hatches?
With one notable exception, the Samsung Galaxy S IV rumor mill seems to have been dramatically slowed this week, which could indicate that the anonymous sources that have been only too eager to gab about the device of late are putting the lid on as time ticks down toward many of the rumored release dates. Read More

33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6
Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What's more, we hope you love them--and benefit from them--as much as we do. Read More

A giant radio telescope, a small school and a Wi-Fi problem
Students at a tiny Appalachian public school can't use Wi-Fi because any such network can throw the radio equivalent of a monkey wrench into a gigantic super-sensitive radio telescope just up the road. Read More

Glass smartphones coming this year, says Taiwanese firm
Sam Yu won't name the handset makers involved. But the executive at Taiwanese firm Polytron Technologies is confident that consumers this year will see the arrival of partially transparent glass smartphones. Read More

Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon's cloud
High performance cloud computing company Cycle Computing is no stranger to spinning up massive clusters of servers in Amazon's public cloud, but this week the company says it recently ran one of its largest jobs ever, one that used 10,598 multi-core instances Read More

Alcatel-Lucent CEO to step down amid losses and declining revenue
Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter net loss of a!1.37 billion (US$1.81 billion), and at the same time announced it is hunting for a new CEO. Read More

US military needs hackers like Gary McKinnon, says policy analyst
The US Government should consider pardoning Gary McKinnon as part of a campaign to woo people with similar much-needed cyber-skills, influential defence analyst John Arquilla has argued in an article that will make tough reading for the men and women who spent a decade trying to extradite the Briton. Read More

Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies?
On the surface, Cisco and Juniper's SDN strategies seem to have sharp contrasts if recent announcements are any indication. For example: Read More

Top Starting Salaries for College Technology Majors
Inside the world of IT and technology the college major you choose will directly relate to what you earn after graduation. Take a look at where the money is in 2013 for new college graduates. Read More

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