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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Meet RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook
Research in Motions heats up the tablet wars with BlackBerry PlayBook that aims to outshine Apple and Samsung when it comes to business appeal. Read More


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HP replaces its Cisco core
Staying true to its word, HP this week said it has replaced Cisco and other "non-HP" networking gear with its own in all six of its worldwide internal data centers. Read More

10 years after: Optical market recovers from dot-com bust
The optical market has commenced a sustained recovery 10 years after the dot.com bust, says market research firm iSuppli. Read More

Businesses overconfident about IT resilience, study finds
Businesses are generally confident about the resilience of their IT systems – until disaster strikes and disruptions ensue. Read More

Will feds commit to another IPv6 mandate?
Will the Obama Administration issue a deadline for all federal agencies to support IPv6 on their public-facing Web sites? That's the next milestone that Internet industry officials expect from the U.S. government as it attempts to spur the adoption of next-generation Internet services in the United States. Read More


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Blackberry maker Research in Motion has jumped into the red-hot tablet space with what it calls an "enterprise-ready" 7-in. touchscreen device called the Playbook. Also, A server with 800 processor cores could ship next year with Tilera's next-generation 100-core chips inside. (2:46) Read More

What's up with encryption?
Indeed whatever the reason, encryption technologies seem to be behind a series of important security happenings of late. Here's a look at some of the more interesting happenings shaping encryption today. Read More

A third of firms don't know who their ISP is
A third of firms don't know who their ISP is, says Consumerchoices.co.uk. Read More

Smart "E-shirt" monitors your body, helps get your game on
An electronic shirt that can monitor your body as you exercise and report any problems may hit a sporting goods store near you soon. Read More


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CA picks up Hyperformix for virtual capacity management
CA Technologies today announced plans to buy Hyperformix, which makes capacity management software for physical, virtual and cloud IT infrastructures. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read More

CDW survey: 25% of customers reported network outage in last year
A CDW business continuity survey showed that 25% of its customers reported a network disruption over the past year, yet only 44% said employees could work from home during the outage. Read More

Texting bans haven't reduced crashes? ... Wait.
Much ado is being made this morning about an insurance industry study that purports to show that legal prohibitions against texting and driving are useless because they have not reduced automobile crashes. Read More

Google's Gmail has less than 1% of enterprise e-mail market, Gartner says
Despite a few high-profile deployments, most Google Apps customers have only around 50 users and represent a tiny portion of the market. Read More

Kindle owners rich, iPad owners young and male
Kindle owners tend to be wealthier and more educated than Apple iPad and iPhone owners, while iPads are attracting a largely young, male following. Read More



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