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Google says Google TV coming this fall

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Google says Google TV coming this fall
After months of speculation, Google Thursday unveiled Google TV , described as a way to meld surfing the Internet with channel surfing. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely
This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More.

WEBCAST: Actuate

Solve Data Needs: BIRT Defined
This webcast will give you a primer on BIRT including the technology and the community. BIRT can help you overcome the challenge of delivering accurate and meaningful data to users while minimizing IT development efforts. Learn more today!

Wacky and Wonderful Pet Tech
These 18 gizmos and gadgets are ideal for pampered pets and their adoring caretakers. Read More

Symantec's $1.28B VeriSign gambit draws mixed reviews
Symantec's stunning decision to put $1.28 billion in cash on the table to buy most of the security services within VeriSign is a gambit that is drawing mixed reactions in the analyst community, but Symantec insists the VeriSign certificate and authentication services are key elements in what's shaping up to be one of the biggest self-transformations ever in the security industry. Read More

Quantum key security hacked for first time
An important weakness has been discovered in the technology of quantum key distribution (QKD), which is increasingly being used by military and government to secure sensitive communications. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

'Generation standby' poses security risk to networks
A collision of recession and technology is creating a new breed of office worker who finds it hard to tell the difference between home and work, a survey has claimed. Read More

Cisco makes another optical acquisition
Cisco is acquiring CoreOptics, a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) technology for optical networking applications. Will this $99 million buy turn out better than Cisco's past optical purchases? Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
Motorola has announced two managed services to help companies with limited resources keep mobile devices and wireless LANs up and running. Also, research firm Gartner says the surge in Android phone adoption isn't just confined to the United States. The company's latest data on the global smartphone market shows sales of Android phones have grown more than 9-fold in the past year. (5:20) Read More


WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks

Troubleshooting Application Problems
This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here!

Install Android on Your iPhone
Maybe you want to liberate your iPhone from Apple's clutches. Maybe you just want to tinker with something new. Either way, you've seen Android running on the iPhone, and you want to try it for yourself. Read More

Google makes Wave widely available
Google will make its Wave collaboration and communication tool available to anyone who wants to try it out on Wednesday at its I/O developer conference. Read More

IDC: Tablet shipments to reach 46M in 2014
Apple's iPad will drive the burgeoning tablet computer market and shipments could grow sixfold by 2014, IDC said in research released on Thursday. Read More

Germany launches criminal investigation of Google
German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation over whether Google broke data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi-Fi data while shooting imagery for its mapping application. Read More



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