Wednesday 27 April 2011

Apple clarifies iPhone tracking practice, vows software tweaks

Verizon acknowledges 4G LTE outage | 12 Awesome iPad Apps for Road Warriors

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Apple clarifies iPhone tracking practice, vows software tweaks
Apple has released a statement repeating that it doesn't track or log iPhone locations, but only the locations of nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots. Two software updates will make changes, storing less data, and encrypting the phone's cache. Read More


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10 Things to Know about Deduplication
You as an IT manager want simple, cost-effective solutions for your complex IT challenges. HP kept this in mind while designing StoreOnce. New technologies, such as deduplication can be difficult to understand but StoreOnce powered by Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series makes it simple. 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

Verizon acknowledges 4G LTE outage
Verizon this morning acknowledged that its 4G LTE network was not working for users across the US after reports trickled in overnight about a nationwide outage. Read More

12 Awesome iPad Apps for Road Warriors
Here are a dozen powerful apps that can keep you in business on your Apple iPad, no matter where you work. Read More

Phishing attacks spiked in late 2010
Phishing attack spiked to 67,677 during the last half of 2010, up from 48,244 in the first half of last year, according to the "Global Phishing Survey 2H2010" report published today. Read More


WHITE PAPER: BMC Software

Gartner Reviews IT Service Desk Vendors
Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant report found IT organizations struggle to align service support and business needs – despite a competitive vendor market. Read Gartner's analysis to see why BMC is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for the IT Service Desk. Read More Today!

Windows 7 helps Microsoft boost OS share to 78.6%
Microsoft grew its formidable operating system revenue share despite a strong year from Linux and Mac. Read More

SETI telescopes' 'hibernation' should be a short snooze
What's being widely reported today as SETI hanging up the phone on as-yet-unidentified ETs looks from here to be somewhat less than a lot of headlines would lead the casual reader to believe.     Read More

RIM boosts calendar capabilities with Tungle buy
Research in Motion moved to boost its mobile devices' calendar capabilities by buying Tungle, an enterprise scheduling application developer. Read More


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Technology Fueling the Next Phase of Storage Optimization
ESG examines trends influencing the adoption of deduplication and the limitations of existing solutions and details how HP is best positioned to deliver highly efficient deduplication solutions based on its new HP StoreOnce deplication technology Read now

Is Ethernet Storage On The Horizon?
There's been a lot of banter in the industry about storage-over-Ethernet over the past few months. It seems like every Ethernet switching vendor has added the words, "Fibre Channel and iSCSI," to their PowerPoint slides and now champion standards efforts like Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), Data Center Ethernet (DCE), or Data Center Bridging (DCB). All of these... Read More

Should your DBAs be certified?
Should you require your people to get certs?  This is a topic that's been a near holy war for years now... esp with the Microsoft exams.  The problem is that it's really hard to protect an exam from cheaters.  So there are plenty of cheat sites out there where you can just buy the answers to the exams and after just a couple days of memorizing, you can pass a test with flying colors and be a real... Read More

Sony PlayStation Network outage: Your FAQs answered
There is no end in sight for the PlayStation Network outage after Sony said Monday that it didn't know when PSN would be back online. Read More

YouTube founders swoop in and buy Delicious from Yahoo
Delicious, the social bookmarking service and Web 2.0 pioneer, will live on as part of a new Internet company run by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Read More

Oracle hedging its vulnerability reports?
Security vendor AppSec charges Oracle has been reporting inappropriate CVSS ratings for its database software Read More



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