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Business Urged to Begin Testing of Windows 7, Eliminate XP by 2012
Businesses should plan and test Microsoft Windows 7 this year and look to eliminate Windows XP by the end of 2012. Those recommendations come in a new report from Gartner, which says now is the time for organizations to be planning and making decisions about when to begin migration to Windows 7, set target dates…
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Juniper’s ‘New Network’ Vision
Juniper calls its future—the future of its customers and partners—”The New Network.” In bright, front-lit letters across the lawn of the Arizona Biltmore at last week’s Americas Partner Conference, the No. 2 infrastructure company spelled out these three words to signify the solidifying theme of its next generation. Frankly, to hear CEO Kevin Johnson and…
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Vast Majority of Businesses Would Support Personal iPads, Survey Finds
An informal survey by server and desktop virtualization specialist Citrix Systems found an overwhelming majority of businesses would support the adoption of Apple’s iPad, which has moved 2 million units since its debut in April. The preliminary results of the survey were posted by the company’s vice president of community and solutions development Chris Fleck,…
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Adobe Digital Magazine Viewer Revealed
In a bit of competitive irony, the technology was used to build Wired magazine’s June iPad edition – despite Apple’s refusal to support Adobe’s Flash, which is used to display many popular Websites’ rich content but which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has condemned as slow and buggy. Adobe’s digital magazine viewer seeks to marry digital…
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Qualcomm Begins Shipping Two New Snapdragon Chipsets
The two new chipsets, called Mobile Station Modem (MSM) 8260 and MSM8660, integrate two enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. The former is designed for compatibility with HSPA+ networks – such as the one T-Mobile has been rolling out – and the latter for HSPA+/CDMA200 1xEv-DO Rev. B. READ MORE >>
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World’s Fastest Supercomputers
The Chinese boast two of the world’s top ten fastest supercomputers, according to rankings published by the TOP500 organization. The Nebulae, based in Shenzhen, is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 petaflops per second (PFlop/s). China’s ambition to enter the supercomputing arena, among other areas of world competitiveness, because clearer…
