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Network World: Drupal 7 beta due in early-August
Company founder Dries Buytaert talks CMS upgrade, cloud version, and open source in an interview at OSCON
 Financial Times: Radio Shack plans Target store kiosks
The US mobile phone retailer intends to open outlets in most of Target's discount stores, as it faces a drive by rivals Best Buy and Walmart into the rapidly expanding wireless business
Network World: Google Apps intrigues IT pros, but security worries remain
Google likes to boast that more than 2 million businesses run Google Apps, but IT pros harbor concerns about security in the cloud.
 The Seattle Times: Microsoft meeting with analysts Thursday
Microsoft stock has been trading like it's a slow-growing company whose growth spurts are in the rearview mirror.
Network World: Dell rolls out multiple storage advancements
Dell last week unveiled its object storage architecture which identifies, stores and manages unstructured data.
Financial Times: Sales of Droid boost Motorola profits
Motorola, the US mobile phone handset maker, said profits surged in the second quarter, aided by the popularity of its popular Droid smartphone
Network World: Remains of the Day: Jailbreak blues
It's been a big day for Apple, what with the new iMacs, Mac Pros, and the Magic-est Trackpad ever to set foot on the Internet. But if you were immersed in specs, you might have missed out on an even bigger deal--Apple changing its boilerplate PR text. Then again, that might not be news given that the company caters to selfish elites. And a court judge hands ...
Network World: I4i wins final approval from USPTO in Microsoft dispute
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final confirmation of a patent awarded to i4i that is at the heart of a dispute with Microsoft and that once threatened the sale of Word software.
Network World: Interop: HP sees no China-related threat to U.S. business
HP's immersion into China stemming from the purchase of 3Com does not present challenges as far as landing enterprise accounts in North America, specifically with large governmental institutions, according to the company's networking chief.
Network World: Rambus claims ITC victory but Nvidia predicts no impact
Rambus, a developer of chip technology, on Monday said the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled in its favor against graphics chip maker Nvidia for allegedly infringing on three of nine asserted patents.
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FAM: Microsoft says economy is getting much better
FAM: Top questions from analysts for Microsoft
FAM: The backdrop on the annual Microsoft analysts meeting
FAM: Livetweeting Microsoft Financial Analysts Meeting on Thursday
Chapter 1: The Principles of Auditing
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·Google says China 'blockage' miscalculation
Google said that its search and advertising services were being blocked in China for first time since its groundbreaking compromise with the Chinese government earlier this month
·Sony raises full-year profit forecasts
The Japanese electronics and entertainment group reports an unexpectedly strong first quarter marked by robust sales of flat-screen televisions and PlayStation video game consoles
·Sales of Droid boost Motorola profits
Motorola, the US mobile phone handset maker, said profits surged in the second quarter, aided by the popularity of its popular Google Android-powered Droid X smartphone
·Panasonic bids for green energy units
Japanese electronics group bets on the future of green energy by offering to buy out minority shareholders in two subsidiaries specialising in lithium-ion batteries, solar cells and other environmental technology
·Radio Shack plans Target store kiosks
The US mobile phone retailer intends to open outlets in most of Target's discount stores, as it faces a drive by rivals Best Buy and Walmart into the rapidly expanding wireless business
·Panasonic: Going green
Japanese electronics company is in search of a niche it can dominate
·Amazon writes new chapter in its strategy
Last November, Amazon.com, the online retailer, flew a dozen of the top US literary agents to a day-long meeting at the company's Seattle headquarters to try to tone down its image as the 800-pound gorilla of bookselling
·Amazon rolls out new version of e-reader
Amazon is aiming to take digital reading into the mainstream as it rolls out a new generation of its Kindle e-reader ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season
·Cautious outlook on sales hits CSR
Chip designer's shares fall 14 per cent after gloomy forecast points to constraints at chip foundries and uncertain economic outlook
·Sage in lead to buy IT group with €650m bid
Software group Sage is expected to outbid buy-out groups HgCapital and Cinven to acquire Italian business software company TeamSystem for up to €650m
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·How can wireless and wired security be brought together, rationalized and managed?
Like many things in IT, this security convergence is a work in progress. But as wireless LANs become the primary connectivity for more enterprise users, integrating wired and wireless becomes more pressing, especially around security.
·HP consolidates, protects data centers
HP this week unveiled data center switching and security products designed to simplify server connectivity and protect data in a converged infrastructure.
·3D games on PS3 take a step closer
The mainstream availability of 3D games has taken a step forward with the latest update to Sonys PS3 enabling the support of 3D stereoscopic games on the console.
·Interop: HP sees no China-related threat to U.S. business
HP's immersion into China stemming from the purchase of 3Com does not present challenges as far as landing enterprise accounts in North America, specifically with large governmental institutions, according to the company's networking chief.
·HP touts transformative investments
HP exec Marius Haas during his keynote address at Interop talked about HP's $3 billion 3Com acquisition and the company's own IT transformation as evidence that it has the right stuff to inject more innovation into enterprise IT.
·HP: No plans to kill off any 3Com products
HP Monday said it has no plans to kill off any existing HP or 3Com networking products, but did not rule out such a move in the future.
·HP boasts "Cisco-free" data center with 3Com networking portfolio
HP has unveiled a new "edge-to-core networking portfolio" based on technology built by 3Com, just one week after closing the $2.7 billion acquisition of the network vendor.
·Ethernet switches, routers, Wi-Fi on the upswing
Sales of Ethernet switches, enterprise routers and wireless LAN equipment are expected to rise this year and beyond coming out of the recession, according to Infonetics Research.
·3Com takes enterprise Wi-Fi products worldwide
Just days after news broke that it would be acquired by HP, 3Com introduced in the U.S. a line of enterprise Wi-Fi gear. The products, from 3Com's China-based unit, H3C, encompass everything from wireless LAN access points to specially designed blades for H3C's high-end data center switches, and an overarching management application.
·HP not all about 3Com: OEMs Voltaire 10G Ethernet switch
On the heels of its $2.7 billion bid to acquire 3Com and its data center switching portfolio , HP this week entered into an OEM arrangement to resell Voltaire's 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch, 40 Gbps QDR InfiniBand director switch and management software.
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·Chapter 1: The Principles of Auditing
·Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco
After years of hanging around the top of the IP telephony market, the company is poised to take over unified communications, but Cisco and Microsoft stand in the way.
·How can wireless and wired security be brought together, rationalized and managed?
Like many things in IT, this security convergence is a work in progress. But as wireless LANs become the primary connectivity for more enterprise users, integrating wired and wireless becomes more pressing, especially around security.
·Cisco goes green with Catalyst 3750-X
Buy less equipment, use less power: That's a proposition network managers can get behind, and it's what Cisco promises with the new power management features in its Catalyst 3750-X stackable access switch.
·Avaya CEO on Cisco, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and how to win over Nortel customers
Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy recently sat down at his office in Basking Ridge, N.J., with Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene to discuss the company's progress integrating Nortel enterprise assets into the company, the changing nature of the business communications market, theeffects of Facebook and Twitter on corporate networks, the impact of Skype, the competition Avaya faces from Cisco and Microsoft and the pro ...
·Cisco to pay up to $112 million in Power-over-Ethernet patent case
Network-1 Security Solutions, an acquirer and licensor of intellectual property, says it has settled its Power-over-Ethernet patent infringement case against Cisco and five other companies.
·Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says
Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware and right behind them.
·Cisco Live 2010 attendee list hacked
Someone hacked the list of attendees for the recent Cisco Live 2010 users' conference, a security breach that led Cisco to notify the customers as well as a broader group who have dealings with the company.
·Mainframe by committee
This is the last newsletter in a series that has explored our premise that we are returning to a new era of mainframe computing. This newsletter will describe what is meant by a mainframe, provide an example of the emerging generation of mainframe computer and will talk about howsome old friends don't like each other much these days.
·Bidgoli's new MIS 2010 textbook a gold mine
In my opinion, Hossein Bidgoli's MIS 2010 college textbook is going to be the missing link in college education for our students by preparing them for real life applications of the computer science and systems engineering they have been studying for years.
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·Dell offering free Web browser security tool
Dell, through its Kace unit, is making available free Web browser security software that works by creating a protective "sandbox" on the desktop to isolate the user's desktop from malware or other harmful actions that might be encountered browsing the Web.
·Enterasys launches data center initiative
Another vendor got into the unified data center 'schtick' last week, adding to the pool of other vendors such as Brocade, Cisco and Dell, who are trying to appeal to the data center market with end-to-end system and storage solutions.
·Dell rolls out unified computing products
Dell on Wednesday last week introduced a number of new products, services and technology packages that fit in with its unified data center architecture. The products are designed with data center customers in mind and will help them deploy virtualization-ready data center environments.
·Dell unveils Juniper gear, updates EqualLogic
Dell is set to roll out significant enhancements to its EqualLogic storage line on Wednesday, along with its first rebadged Juniper Networks products and other updates to its storage and networking lines, all part of a mission to carve out a place in the rapidly evolving world ofenterprise data centers.
·Dell profit up 52 percent on improved corporate sales
Dell reported its first increase in quarterly profits for two years on Thursday, helped by an uptick in commercial spending and its ongoing efforts to reduce costs.
·Dell: Smartphones will never kill the PC
Dell CEO Michael Dell contends that mobile devices will never kill the PC. Instead, he envisions a future where users own an increasing number and variety of devices, each capable of looking like the other via desktop virtualization, served by virtual networks and the cloud.
·Who owns www.cloud.com anyway?
Cloud start-up VMOps acquired the coveted domain name www.cloud.com from an unnamed seller.
·Why not iSCSI?
Even though FibreChannel over Ethernet gets all the hype, iSCSI over Ethernet is just as capable of converging or unifying data center servers, storage and networking, proponents say.
·Pictures of new Dell 3G phone put on China regulator site
Pictures of two Dell smartphones, including one with China's 3G mobile standard and a new body shape for Dell's phone series, have been posted on the Web site of a Chinese regulator.
·Dell rolls out multiple storage advancements
Dell last week unveiled its object storage architecture which identifies, stores and manages unstructured data.
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·EMC, Xiotech, Nimbus and Actifio launch new storage products
EMC, Xiotech, Nimbus and Actifio announced this week a variety of news a new deduplication appliance, an SSD appliance, a desktop virtualization initiative and the launch and funding of a new storage startup.
·VMware co-founder tackles virtualization at Cisco
VMware co-founder Ed Bugnion, now at Cisco, is making sure the network adapts to the age of virtualization.
·EMC manages Microsoft SharePoint data with new SourceOne product
As Microsoft readies a new version of SharePoint, EMC is releasing software that will archive SharePoint data and help IT control the growing data volumes created by the product.
·VMware: Media overplaying our role in EMC-Cisco partnership
The significance of VMware's role in a three-way partnership with Cisco Systems and EMC has been overblown by the media, a senior VMware executive said, reaffirming the company's intention to remain neutral amidst competition between top hardware makers.
·EMC rethinks datacentre with federated storage
EMC has taken the wraps off its federated storage concept with the announcement of two new products.
·EMC users voice mixed feelings about VPLEX appliance
EMC announced its latest attempt to capture the cloud-computing marketplace for storage on Monday with its release of VPLEX, an appliance that affords synchronous replication of data, applications and virtual machines across data centers.
·EMC's Tucci: 'Hundreds of public clouds' on the way
The cloud computing market will consist of hundreds of services, not just a few dominant vendors, EMC's Tucci says.
·Start-up founded by HP vets targets cloud computing deployments
Cloud storage start-up TwinStrata launches with software designed to ease cloud computing deployments with Amazon and other providers.
·10 hot tools for the next-generation data center
Enterprise data centers are notoriously complex, costly and energy inefficient, which leaves plenty of opportunity for innovative vendors to introduce products that ease the pain of data center managers.
·EMC chief's pay drops 23% to $9 million
EMC chief Joe Tucci's total compensation declined 23% compared to his $11.7 million package in 2008.
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