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FCC Study Finds Broadband Speeds Lagging
In its latest snapshot of the broadband market, Federal Communications Commission finds that less than half of households have sufficient connection speeds.
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Cisco Snags Arch Rock in Smart Grid Play
Networking giant looks to advance its position in the burgeoning smart-grid market with the acquisition of Arch Rock, a firm specializing in wireless sensors that connect devices to a mesh network.
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Microsoft Begins Yahoo Ad Integration
Software giant puts Yahoo advertisers on notice that the transition to its adCenter technology is underway, with hopes to complete the integration by October.
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Google, AOL Extend Search Agreement
Under renewed agreement, Google will provide AOL's search and advertising technology for five more years, with an expansion into mobile and video content.
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Salesforce CRM Gets Real-Time Contact Updates, Leads
Thanks to its acquisition of Jigsaw, the SaaS player integrates real-time updates on CRM contacts to its solution.
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Say What? The Week's Top Five IT Quotes
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Xsigo's New I/O Director Trumps Cisco on Price
Unlike solutions that require Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapters and PCIe link extenders, I/O Director doesn't use costly add-on cards. .
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Virtualization: Is It Safe?
That was the chief question on the minds of attendees at this year's VMworld. Not surprisingly, VMware and its partners had much to say on the subject.
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Microsoft Issues 'Fix It' for DLL Flaw
Following the revelation of a flaw that put hundreds of Windows applications at risk, Microsoft issues an automated "Fix It" tool to address the vulnerability.
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Twitter Link-Shortening Raises Privacy Concerns
Amid a wider rollout of new security and third-party app authentication enhancements, one feature has some Twitter users worried.
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Intel Shares Its Own Virtualization Success Story
The world's largest chipmaker uses a lot of servers. But it says it's having to spend money on fewer now thanks to VMware -- and offers a few lessons to CIOs also looking to trim costs.
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Windows Phone 7 Heads to Manufacturers
Announcing that Windows Phone 7 has been "released to manufacturing," Microsoft marks a major milestone in the development of its new mobile operating system.
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HP Emerges Victor in 3PAR Bidding War
Dell drops out after HP offers a whopping $2.4 billion for the enterprise and cloud storage technology player.
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CIOs Look to Cautious IT Hiring Plans
According to a new survey by Robert Half International, IT executives are only planning modest increases in hiring, citing budget constraints and a shortage of qualified workers.
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VMworld: In the Cloud, It's Storage's Time to Shine
Your infrastructure might be going into the cloud... but it'll still need to be stored somewhere. A storage-centric look of VMworld's happenings.
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Western Digital Dives Into Pure-Play Networking
Longstanding leader in the hard-drive sector continues efforts to diversity portfolio, now launching a networking kit that could port video content to the TV.
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Microsoft Claims Android 'Gotchas' Raise Its Cost
Google makes its Android software freely available, but Microsoft argues there are other costs related to making the open source software available on mobile devices.
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PC Demand Will Cool Off a Bit in Second Half
Gartner's latest forecast predicts continued strong growth for PC makers in the next two quarters -- just not as robust as they enjoyed in the first half of 2010.
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Apple Revamps TV, iOS, iPods and iTunes
Apple's CEO highlights new ways Apple plans to build on its dominance in mobile devices with new social, movie rental and performance enhancements.
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Sloppy Data Costs Fortune 1000 Firms Billions
New research from Sybase concludes that a median Fortune 1000 firm would stand to gain more than $2 billion with better, more accurate and more usable data.
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