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New Windows Mobile-Based Treo Makes Up for Lost RAM
Palm has released the second iteration of its smart phone loaded with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system. The Treo 700wx is almost identical to its predecessor, with one major exception—a much needed boost in RAM. During eWEEK Labs’ tests of the previous Windows Mobile-based Treo—the 700w—a shortage of memory available to programs caused the device…
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Survey Finds Restless Tech Workers
Nearly 60 percent of tech workers are looking for new jobs, according a survey released by the Computing Technology Industry Association on Aug. 30. In surveying more than 1,000 IT workers, CompTIA found that they are restless and looking for new challenges. Of the 58 percent looking for new jobs, four out of five considered…
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IBM Uses Virtualization for U.S. Open Site
Using a combination of virtualization technology and management software, IBM was able to radically pare down the number of servers needed to host the Web site for this year’s U.S. Open. The Armonk, N.Y., company is using its Virtualization Engine in concert with software such as its Enterprise Workload Manager to reduce the number of…
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Gadgets That Just Won’t Break
Were you the type of kid who broke toys pretty soon after they came out of the box? Or maybe you just go through eyeglasses, camera, phones, and music players with abandon. Even if you’re not like this at all, you probably know someone who fits this sad profile. Perhaps they’re a student returning back…
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BEA Delivers Tuxedo SOA Technology
BEA Systems has completed development of BEA Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo 1.1, a solution for making applications that use BEA’s Tuxedo run more efficiently on service-oriented architectures. Officials at BEA, in San Jose, Calif., said BEA SALT 1.1 is based on a configuration-driven model that presents existing Tuxedo services as Web services with no coding…
