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Hosted IT: When Simple Won’t Do
Amazon.com inc.’s utility pricing and on-demand services may change the hosting game, but some applications continue to demand more of a hothouse environment. “There is no way to apply the fast-food hosting model to really complex custom applications,” says Daniel Golding, a vice president at Tier 1 Research. At the high end of the market,…
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CES 2007 Unveiled
LAS VEGAS—Amid steaming plates of international dishes, celebrity legend impersonators, and the somehow always orange-light-ambiance of Las Vegas ballrooms, hundreds of journalists got their first taste of the world’s largest consumer technology show, Consumer Electronics Show 2007, at CES Unveiled. There were nearly 80 vendors crammed into the Marco Polo Ballroom at the Sands Convention…
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Windows Mobile-Based Treo 750 Travels Far and Wide
Palm’s new Treo 750 is a smart phone of many firsts—it’s the first GSM Windows-based Treo available in the United States and the first Treo to use Cingular’s UMTS/HSDPA-enabled BroadBand Connect 3G service. It’s also the most widely usable Pocket PC-based device on the market. Announced on Jan. 7, the Treo 750 runs Microsoft’s Windows…
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Nokia’s Linux-Powered N800 Internet Tablet Sneaks Out Early
Officially, Nokia Inc. is still mum about its new Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet, the successor to its N770 Internet Tablet, but it’s already on sale in some U.S. stores. As reported by LinuxDevices.com, the N800 is now for sale at some CompUSA stores for $399.99. This new model, from sources close to Nokia and the…
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Macworld Expo: The Mac Gets Back into Business?
SAN FRANCISCO—The buzz is swelling in anticipation of consumer-side announcements from Steve Jobs’ keynote address that will kick off the annual Macworld Expo here. Will it be the iPod phone or the iTV digital media server (name change is also expected)? Only Jobs and a select cadre of Apple execs know for sure. However, after…
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Mac OS X Developers Watch Month of Apple Bugs
Developers of applications for Apple’s Mac OS X have been watching the Month of Apple Bugs project closely, and are generally in favor of the project’s goal of uncovering OS flaws. But they, and security companies, have questions about the MOAB group’s method, which involves making their findings public immediately, instead of first alerting Apple…
