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Apple iPhone 4 Reception Problems a Lesson in Antenna Design
The iPhone 4 has a very good antenna design as long as you let it do its job. The antenna design demonstrates that the best antenna design from an engineering standpoint isn’t necessarily the best design from a usability standpoint. Imagine, if you will, a day when the term “wireless” had a lot to do…
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Intel Offers SSDs for Laptops and Desktop Computers at Best Buy
Taking its solid-state drives to the masses, Intel is making its devices available through 800 U.S. Best Buy stores and the online BestBuy.com site, pitching them as a replacement for existing hard drives in laptop and desktop computers or a complement to them. Priced at $130 to $230 depending on capacity, Intel says the drives…
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Deflating IT Budgets: Behind the Numbers
Following a report on the latest IT spending data from technology research company Computer Economics that found 42 percent of surveyed companies were reducing IT staff, eWEEK interviewed Computer Economics analyst John Longwell. In an e-mail exchange June 24, Longwell explained some of the nuances of the company’s latest report, "IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks…
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JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 Introduced
Red Hat has announced JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0, the new version of the open-source software provider’s portal solution. Announced at the joint Red Hat Summit/JBoss World 2010 event in Boston on June 24, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 is designed to reduce the time and cost associated with creating, deploying and managing dynamic web…
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Employees Using Unsafe Applications at Work, Survey Finds
A worldwide survey of 512 IT professionals conducted on behalf of Cisco by InsightExpress found employees are consistently working around information technology security policies to use unsupported devices and applications and more than half of survey respondents determined that their employees use unsupported applications. More than half (51 percent) listed social networking as one of…