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Developers See SPOTs Before Their Eyes
The runaway success of Nintendo’s motion-sensitive Wii game controller, with December sales of nearly 1 million units, turned out to be merely a prequel to January’s debut of Apple’s iPhone, a device that redefines expectations, if not quite yet realities, for handheld device interaction and connectivity. Developers are on notice: The next generation of personal,…
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Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft’s Vista Challenge
While the eyes of the IT world have spent years squinting to see Microsoft’s slowly unfolding vistas, the companies and individuals that drive open source have been steadily building a case for broader adoption of Linux-based operating systems. Two of the best all-around Linux distributions to emerge from this process are OpenSUSE 10.2 and Ubuntu…
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Storage Elements Launches First Mac OS RAID System
SAN FRANCISCO—Outside of Apple’s introduction of the iPhone earlier this week, there really weren’t that many breakthrough-type products at the Macworld Conference and Expo, which ended Jan. 12. But one of the few was a new data storage software system exclusively for Mac OS X produced by a small and relatively unknown software developer and…
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CIOs Will Spend More on the Channel, Less on Staff in 2007
Spending on internal IT staff remains the largest part of IT budgets, but CIOs expect to shift more resources from staff to consultants and integrators in 2007, according to the quarterly CIO User Survey released Jan. 9 by Merrill Lynch. CIOs expect to spend an average of 11 percent of their IT budget on external…
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Symantec: Vista UAC Is Still Too Chatty
In positioning itself to provide aftermarket applications for Microsoft’s Vista operating system, anti-virus market leader Symantec is highlighting some shortcomings it believes to exist in the new platform’s own security tools. Among the conclusions of a presentation delivered to the media during the week of Jan. 8 by Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan Trollope…
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IBM, HP, Lead the Patent Pack in 2006
IFI Patent Intelligence, a patent assignee company that has been around since 1956, announced Jan. 11 its annual list of the top 25 U.S. patent winners. IFI assembles its listing using information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and from CLAIMS, a text-searchable database of U.S. patents in the world. Darlene Slaughter, general manager…
