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Will Ozzie era at Microsoft signal a revolution?
If Bill Gates leaving Microsoft is the end of an era, then Ray Ozzie's ascension is the beginning of a revolution designed
to transform the company's business model as well as redefine corporate IT infrastructures and how end users access, share
and interact with applications and data.
Are smartphone viruses really a threat to your network?
Smartphone viruses aren’t an imminent threat, but it might not be long given the growing popularity of Web browsing via iPhones
and other mobile devices.
Whatever happened to artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence promised us great technology. But has it delivered?
Use virtualization to bring testing out of the lab
Although virtualization is still used primarily as a means to consolidate servers, the technology’s next big win could be
in testing.
Red Hat debuts new hypervisor, open-sources Linux management platform
Red Hat released a new server virtualization platform and open sourced the code of Red Hat Network.
ISPs experimenting with new P2P controls
Peer-to-peer traffic management was a hot topic at this year's NXTComm convention in Las Vegas, as several telecom panelists
and keynote speakers highlighted new methods for handling P2P traffic crunches.
Software makes virtual servers a moving target
Carefully managed virtual servers can make the job of attackers more difficult by reducing the time that any one version of
a server is exposed to the Internet, according to a George Mason University professor who has developed software that phases
virtual servers in and out of use.
Customers demand tighter integration while HP plugs software holes
HP announces new products and partnerships designed to help customers better build and manage IT environments, but industry
watchers and customers want the vendor to stay focused on support, usability and business relevance.
Firefox 3.0 released as browser climbs the charts
Firefox 3.0 went live Tuesday to big fanfare -- and an early snag with Mozilla's servers -- while behind the scenes the open
source browser continues to claw its way up the market-share charts.
Microsoft releases near-final beta of HPC Server 2008
Microsoft Wednesday said it plans to release at the end of the month another beta of its Windows HPC Server 2008 and that
the final version will ship by year-end.
A misconfigured laptop, a wrecked life
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events
that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded
child pornography onto the laptop. Last week, prosecutors dropped their year-old case after a state investigation of his computer
determined there was insufficient evidence to prove he had downloaded the files.
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