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Amazon says it's getting a handle on EC2 outage
Amazon reports this morning that it is making progress in restoring full service to customers of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service in the eastern portion of the country after a rocky stretch of trouble that began sometime before midnight. Read More


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Ensuring Disaster Recovery with Equalizer and Envoy
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Windows® 7: A Prescription for Desktop Health
If you're an IT exec at a healthcare organization responsible for maintaining systems and end users, smoothing out electronic medical records implementations, and modernizing your mobility and desktop solutions, take a dose of this Windows 7 desktop migration strategy. You'll have happy healthcare systems and improve patient care! Learn more.

Cisco accused of orchestrating engineer's arrest
Cisco Systems orchestrated the arrest of Multiven founder Peter Alfred-Adekeye last year in order to force a settlement of Multiven's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco, a Multiven executive said on Wednesday. Read More

10 Ways to Enjoy Wireless Entertainment With AirPlay
iOS 4.3 bring AirPlay support to the iPhone and the iPad -- here's how to make the most of it. Read More

IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes
IBM will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this year. Read More


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Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared
This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now

Texas fires two tech chiefs over breach
The Texas State Comptroller's office has fired its heads of information security and of innovation and technology following an inadvertent data leak that exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information on over 3.2 million people in the state. Read More

T-Mobile brings VoIP capabilities to Facebook
T-Mobile is staking out its position as Facebook's official voice carrier, as the company today announced a VoIP application that lets Facebook users call their friends with their computers. Read More

Facebook, Twitter, Android, Netflix among targets of 1-800 ruse
Facebook, Twitter, Android, Hotmail and Netflix are among the household names whose absence of control over their most obvious 1-800 numbers is allowing a massive phone-sex operation to illicitly cash in on - and potentially sully - their valuable brands. The FCC should be preventing such abuses, but doesn't appear to have lifted a dialing finger. Read More


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The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management
Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now!

After blasting Google, Microsoft finally gets FISMA certification of its own
When Microsoft called out Google for making misleading claims about FISMA certification, Microsoft was still working on getting its own stamp of approval from the government. Read More

Popular kid's clothing retailer, hit with database breach
The Children's Place Retail Stores Inc. said Tuesday that its customer email address database was recently accessed by an unauthorized third party. Read More

Another key Republican calls for H-1B cap hike
The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this week called for Congress to increase the annual cap on H-1B visas. Read More

Video: Robots show inside Fukushima reactor buildings
Tokyo Electric Power has supplied the first look inside two of the reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Read More

Microsoft's Project Tuva celebrates Richard Feynman lecture series 50-year anniversary
Microsoft acquired the rights to the famed filmed lecture series by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and posted them online for all to see via its Project Tuva site. Read More



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