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Apple's iPad invasion: First stop, HollywoodSteve Jobs appeared at the Oscars last night looking radiant in a strapless Giorgio Armani Prive organza evening gown with a side train accented by Swarovski crystals.
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EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VWware on Celerratoday announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.
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FDIC: Hackers took more than $120M in three monthsOngoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies US$25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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HP’s new disk arrays boast of disaster-proof makeUnderscoring the need for business continuity in times of crisis, IT equipment vendor HP on Friday unveiled its new line of StorageWorks XP disk arrays, which feature disaster-proof makeup that enable businesses to go on despite calamitous circumstances.
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IBM CEO's pay hit $21.2 million in 2009Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM, was awarded a compensation package valued at $21.2 million in 2009, according to documents filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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IBM reduces server sprawl with new eX5 portfolioIBM is offering organisations an opportunity to experience more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform. The company has launched new eX5 servers that have the ability to break the technical barriers to reach this goal.
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Navajo Nation may get cutting-edge LTE networkIf a pending federal grant is approved, one of the first LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless broadband networks in the U.S. will be built across 15,120 square miles of desert.
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New Oracle database stack faster with Flash storageThe second iteration of Oracle's Exadata database engine will feature flash storage embedded within the server machine, eliminating the need to source data from storage disks and cutting query processing time significantly, a company executive revealed Friday.
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Sony to begin worldwide 3D TV launch in JuneSony will begin selling 3D TVs in Japan on June 10 and worldwide at about the same time, it said Tuesday. A firmware upgrade to its PlayStation 3 console that adds 3D support and other 3D-compatible home electronics products will also be available to coincide with the television launch.
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Energizer Bunny's software infects PCsThe Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday.
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Officials cloud status of Google-China talksChina's IT ministry has not formally talked to Google about its row with the Chinese government, an official said, leaving unclear the status of negotiations after the ministry's head said Google was holding talks with the Chinese government.
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W3C pulls former Novell CTO for CEO spotFilling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the (World Wide Web Consortium).
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Apple's iPad: Will it sell?Apple's iPad will fly out of stores when it goes on sale in four weeks, and will build momentum through the back-to-school and into the holiday selling seasons, analysts said today.
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Tethering on Apple's iPad? Fuhgeddaboudit!We're down to the final weeks before the debut of Apple's famed . Even with , though, plenty of pressing questions remain about the highly hyped device.
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US citizen a key player in alleged Italian telecom fraudAn apparently well-connected Soviet-born U.S. citizen has emerged as a key player in a massive Italian telecom fraud, according to court documents and published reports.
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Adobe Photoshop.com now available to Android developershas announced that third-party application developers can have access to the .
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Apple confirms delay for iPad in the UKhas officially announced that the will be released in the UK at the end of April, some weeks after the newly confirmed US launch date of April 3.
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Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3In Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3, Corel has redesigned PaintShop Pro's interface, added a handful of useful features, and enhanced others. In addition, the company has added "Photo" to the product's name, to emphasize a focus on the photography-enthusiast market. But X3 ($100 as of March 5, 2010) is far from a compelling upgrade.
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Download Sort Files Firefox DownloadsThe add-on for Firefox can automatically save your downloads to various folders based on rules you define. This freebie might take a bit of work to set up, but once you've got it rolling your downloads will sort themselves right into place.
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Final Cut used on 9 out of 10 Oscar documentariesWhen you talk about the Oscars and a Steve Jobs-led company, it's usually that gets the mention. But this year, Apple scored some Oscar cred of its own: Of the ten documentaries nominated for Oscars, in both the "Documentary Feature" and "Documentary Short" categories, a whopping nine were created using Apple's own .
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