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News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take ...
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Minimizing after sales disasters
When your customer wants to be assured that a T5440 can be configured as 256 virtual machines and run at better than 98.5% utilization, you know he's beyond the reach ...
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Steve Jobs: Call it a day.
I heard of today's broadcast email by Steve Jobs via a BlackBerry news alert while I was on vacation in Orlando this week. Frankly, I was one of the many ...
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Jobs' health, Google cuts, PC sales: Be careful of seeing too much in coincidence
I have nothing to add to the discussion of Steve Jobs. Will come back? Won't he come back? I only wish Steve and his family the best. The thing we, ...
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Google rips off the band-aid, bad news all around
Google dropped a whole bunch of "bad news" on us today -- it reminds me of when you have to make that hard decision to either rip out one hair ...
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Google cripples Google Apps Standard and pushes Premier
Google is now giving anyone with the expertise, and desire, to resell Google Apps Premier Edition GAPE. This is a significant departure from Google's past sales tactics, and it will ...
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R.I.P., 'V.O.I.P.' Long live packet-based telephony.
Not much more than a decade ago, the idea that a packet-routing company could compete effectively in the circuit-switched world of telecommunications was oft the font of laughter. For the ...
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Psystar offers another (weak) argument in Apple suit
The arguments get weaker and weaker every time Psystar tries to justify installing Mac OS X on non-Apple computers. And seeing how the courts keep kicking Psystar to the curb ...
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CES 2009: Photos of Internet TV widgets from the show floor
I have a lot still to digest and post from last week's CES. For starters, here are some photos I took of Internet-enabled TV widgets while I was on the ...
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Beware of Satyam ambulance-chasers
I've been inundated with questions from Satyam's competitors who have all been eagerly circling the beleaguered service provider's clients over the past week. by Phil Fersht
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No more free Sprout Builder
Marshall has the news up that Sprout Builder will no longer be offering free accounts. Sprout Builder is one of my favorite applications on the net and I always thought ...
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Google lays off recruiters
Google confirmed that it has been cutting contractors and now it's paring back its army of recruiters. In a blog post, Google said it "is still hiring at a reduced ...
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Motorola's mobile unit gets slammed in another round of cuts, layoffs
Motorola announced an additional 4,000 layoffs today - on top of the 3,000 announced last month - with the troubled mobile division taking the biggest hit with 3,000 positions eliminated. ...
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So far, SOA failures are few and far between, survey says
What is the cost of SOA failure? Survey says more than 100 staff hours, and several months of regrouping by Joe McKendrick
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Will govt throw bucks at health IT without understanding the goals?
Neuberg says Congress should be careful not to throw money at health records IT before it understands where we're trying to go. by Richard Koman
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David Allen explains how to Make It All Work
David Allen, author of Getting Things Done and Ready For Anything, energized the employees at CBS Interactive today at a BNET Speaker Series. His new book, Making It All Work, ...
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Amazon wants to put govt. in the cloud
Amazon is targeting state and federal government as a major new client for its cloud services. TechFlash found this job posting on Amazon's site: Would you like to be part ...
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Steve Jobs takes "medical leave of absence"
Steve Jobs takes a "medical leave of absence" from his position as CEO of Apple until June. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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IBM is tops in patents
IBM is No. 1. The No. 1, patent holder, that is. And for the 16th year in a row. In a press release, IBM announced it had been awarded 4,186 ...
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BREAKING: Jobs takes medical leave from Apple
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave from the company until the end of June, telling employees in an e-mail that his health issues are more complex than ...
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PC shipment growth grinds to a halt in Q4
For the first time since early 2001, growth in the PC industry slowed to virtually zero with overall shipments worldwide dropping 0.4 percent to 77.3 million units during the...
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Symantec turns to virtualisation, cloud computing
New technologies from the security software company use virtualisation and cloud computing to protect web surfers and let them use web applications from one site ...
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Microsoft updates Windows Azure tools
The software maker said it has it has fixed bugs and sped up the performance of the developer tools needed to write programs for Microsoft's cloud-based operating system ...
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Steve Jobs on medical leave until June
Jobs has said in a letter that he will step down as Apple CEO while he recuperates from a medical condition disclosed earlier this month; COO Tim Cook will...
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Comms minister calls for universal broadband access
Lord Stephen Carter says access to broadband could offer 'enormous' benefits for e-government, changing the way it delivers services to the public ...
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Few following DIAC in Gershon hiring drive
Most large federal government agencies this week said they had no plans to follow the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's lead in hiring a swathe of new permanent IT...
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Google conquers 2008 US search market
Unsurprisingly, Google led the search market in the United States last year. But third-place Microsoft has reclaimed some share over the last five months, says new research. Compare your...
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Sue Decker bullish in goodbye memo to Yahoo staff
The outgoing president says in farewell e-mail: Yahoo is "positioned to weather a challenging economic cycle and come out the other side stronger than before." ...
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RMIT considers thin for 4,500+ PCs
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) this week said that the first half of 2009 would see the university evaluate whether to commit to a thin client solution...
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UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
IT systems for UN peacekeeping logistics were insecure last year, according to an internal UN report, but some secure transmission standards are being deliberately avoided due to their bandwidth...
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Microsoft expected to announce layoffs
Another news report states the company is considering job cuts, a rare move at the software giant. The alleged cuts could come as early as next week.
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Apple prepares for six months without Jobs
It's impossible to say Apple won't miss its iconic leader while he recuperates until June. But, for the most part, it should be business as usual in Cupertino; at...
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Unpatched Safari bug exposes sensitive info
Safari users are vulnerable to a bug that could allow a malicious Website to read files on their hard drive, according to a security researcher.
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Microsoft fixes holes in Server Message Block
The software giant has released security update to fix weaknesses in the network file-sharing protocol used in Windows.
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Nortel files for bankruptcy
Telecommunications equipment maker seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the current economic crisis exacerbates the troubled company's problems.
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PC shipment growth drops to virtually zero
For the first time since early 2001, growth comes to a halt in the worldwide PC industry in the fourth quarter, according to new statistics from IDC.
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Steve Jobs' health memo to employees
Jobs shares his rationale for taking a medical leave of absence: "to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health".
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Queensland schools trial IP telephony
A number of Queensland schools within the state's Department of Education and Training (DETA) have started trialling IP telephony solutions, networking vendor 3Com revealed yesterday.
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Oracle clams up on Aussie jobs
Oracle's Australian division has declined to comment on whether it is slashing jobs, in the wake of reports the software giant has cut about 500 workers from its US...
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Redundancies hit Vodafone NZ
Global mobile operator Vodafone's New Zealand arm today said it would restructure its sales team in response to a tightening economy in the country.
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