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Eaton 5PX UPS Offering Makes Going Green Easier
How green is your IT? That s a question asked by many business managers and IT staffers alike. The problem with developing a green strategy for your business is trying to measure your success when it comes to saving power, especially at the device level. Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) manufacturer Eaton has taken a hard…
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OpenLogic Brings Open-Source PaaS to Rackspace
Open-source cloud services provider OpenLogic announced Dec. 27 it has joined the Cloud Tools program with Rackspace Hosting, enabling CloudSwing to be deployed on the Rackspace Cloud. Rackspace Cloud Tools is a showcase site for the company’s strategic partners and independent developers to work with Rackspace Cloud to share tools, applications and services. "The Rackspace…
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Apple iPhone 4 Users Get Siri Through Spire Hack
Owners of Apple s iPhone 4 who have a hankering to use the company s much-publicized voice-recognition personal assistant Siri can now do so thanks to a download designed by a hacker known as chpwn, who posted the details of the program on his blog. The tool, Spire, will download Siri itself (directly from Apple)…
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Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 50,000 Apps
According to All About Windows Phone (AAWP), the Windows Phone Marketplace now has more than 50,000 apps. Although 50,000 is less than one-tenth of what Apple s iOS App Store has and also a fraction of the more than 400,000 apps in Android Market, Microsoft s ascent to 50,000 apps is a solid milestone given…
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Enterprises Need Proper Computer Disposal Policies to Protect Sensitive Data
A new computer, mobile device or other IT equipment generally requires some effort setting up and migrating data. Enterprises also need to spend the time making sure the data is completely removed from the equipment as it is replaced. Organizations do not always stop to consider the security implications of leaving data on obsolete equipment…
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Consumer Electronics Industry Faces a Projected $17 Billion Product Returns Bill: Accenture
Customers returning electronics products will cost U.S. consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers nearly $17 billion this year, including receiving, assessing, repairing, reboxing, restocking and reselling returned products. This represents an increase of 21 percent since 2007, according to a research report from management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The research is…