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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Back-to-school quiz for techies; Microsoft, Citrix no longer sponsoring VMworld after dustup with VMware; Compilers getting infected with malware

Microsoft, Citrix no longer sponsoring VMworld after dustup with VMware; Compilers getting infected with malware
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Microsoft, Citrix no longer sponsoring VMworld after dustup with VMware
Microsoft and Citrix are not sponsoring next week's VMworld virtualization conference and are maintaining only a limited presence at the show due to conflicts with rival VMware.

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A reader asks: Did you see the SANS Storm Center diary entry about the virus Win32.Induc.A. which can compromise the Delphi compiler so that everything compiled with it is infected? Read Steve Blass' answer.

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Gigabit Ethernet fit for a tank
Ethernet continues to go places its inventors probably never imagined. This week GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms got a $645,000 contract to supply a custom version of its Gigabit Ethernet switch to rumble around inside the US Army's Abrams tank.

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Windows 7: the grown-up Vista
Windows 7 is winning the hearts of early users and testers alike, despite the fact that it is largely just a tuned up edition of Vista. Ironically, it's this very lack of change that seems to be what users seem to like most about it.

Cisco's commercial business council cochair bolts
Cisco's 59 internal standing committees with 750 senior employees participating, has lost yet another participant, this time it's Doug Dennerline - Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Collaboration Software Group (It's the group responsible for developing Cisco's Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy and products, including all WebEx conferencing and collaboration offerings).

Air Force, NASA fire off environmentally-friendly rocket
NASA and Air Force said today they had successfully launched a 9ft rocket 1,300 feet into the sky powered by aluminum powder and water ice.

Why every child needs a GPS cell phone
The root of America's health crisis is bad habits formed in childhood. To protect children from harm, parents are keeping kids indoors, where they get sick, watch TV and form lifelong habits of screen addiction, inactivity and junk-food overeating.

Apple App Store and Google Voice: move may not as capricious as it seemed
A few weeks ago I wrote about the first round of fallout that resulted from the press reports that Apple had rejected a Google Voice application after Google tried to add it to the App Store.

RIM may get new browser through acquisition
BlackBerry phones may soon get a new browser, now that Research In Motion has acquired Torch Mobile.

August Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31.

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