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| | | | | | While the tech world may have been watching the lines outside of Apple stores and gauging response to the launch of the next generation Apple tablet, most of the eyes of the world were on Japan. As I am sure you know, the small island nation was rocked by a record 8.9 magnitude earthquake, followed by a devastating tsunami that has taken thousands of lives. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Taiwan's major semiconductor manufacturers, a crucial link in the global tech supply chain, scrambled on Monday to gauge how their access to raw materials from Japanese suppliers will be affected by the powerful earthquake in Japan. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory shot up by as much as 20% Monday as concerns over fabrications plant shutdowns, power outages and supply shortages mounted in the wake of last week's earthquake in Japan, according to DRAMeXchange. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | The same glitch in the iPhone's clock that made loads of Europeans late to work last November has struck back with a vengeance. Instead of springing forward or standing still, many Verizon iPhone owners found that on Sunday their phones had fallen back, making them not only irritable and confused, but two hours off schedule. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Adobe has published a security advisory in response to a critical flaw found in Flash Player. The vulnerability affects Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android, and also impacts the authplay.dll component included in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | European Union authorities have sent out a clear message that they will not accept delays to the plan to give all European consumers access to broadband by 2013. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Oracle has launched a Java development framework for industrial application developers | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Japan's major electronics companies took stock of their problems on Monday, as the country struggles to come to terms with the scale of devastation following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Developers working on client applications that replicate Twitter.com's basic user functionality should turn their efforts elsewhere, because the company doesn't want any more such apps on the market. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | An Apple senior VP has confirmed that the company will have a white iPhone out this spring, but it's still a mystery as to whether it will be an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Major U.S. wireless carriers are waiving fees on calls and text messages to Japan as well as texted mobile donations made to emergency relief efforts in Japan. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Brocade Networks announced last week that it provides the routers and switches that underpin the network backbone operated by Hurricane Electric, a leader in next-generation Internet services using the emerging IPv6 standard. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | How did Toyota navigate the tricky road between designing for multiple platforms and pleasing phone users who want native apps? Hint: Follow the signs to Apple. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | With IT hiring on the rise, CIOs need to worry about an issue that hasn't cropped up in years: how to prevent their most talented employees from being poached by rivals. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | IT exec Jeremy Hopkins has a bit more on his plate these days than some of his colleagues in high tech. Hopkins is the CIO at World Telecom Group in Malibu, Calif., a job that keeps him hopping. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It seems that the era of unlimited data consumption isn't just ending for wireless Internet services anymore. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took a step out of Mark Hurd's shadow Monday, unveiling a new cloud computing platform that puts the company in competition with Amazon and Google. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Developers working on client applications that replicate Twitter.com's basic user functionality should turn their efforts elsewhere, because the company doesn't want any more such apps on the market. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Weekend sales of Apple's iPad 2 were stellar with as many as 500,000 tablets sold to mostly new tablet owners, according to Piper Jaffray, an independent market research firm. Sales of the iPad 2 were up 67 percent compared to the launch of to original iPad when Apple sold 300,000 tablets. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Intel Mobile Communications said Monday that it has acquired most of the assets of SySDSoft, a Cairo-based company, to help accelerate its LTE (Long Term Evolution) efforts. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Managed DNS service provider UltraDNS is touting a new offering that it says will protect Web sites against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks akin to the WikiLeaks-related protests that knocked the Visa and MasterCard Web sites offline in December. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 launches tonight at 9 p.m. Pacific, accompanied by a celebratory bash at the South-by-Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. The hoopla might be appropriate, because IE9 is Microsoft's most aggressive attempt yet at hanging onto its lead in the browser market. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | The group of online activists known as "Anonymous" has released a batch of e-mail concerning Bank of America that was given to the group by a whistleblower who worked for a related mortgage and vehicle loan insurer. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | These Google Maps mashups present interesting information in (almost) real-time. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | A U.S. House subcommittee says efforts to increase federal government transparency are not yet meeting expectations. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Parts of coastal Japan have been so badly hit by earthquakes and tsunamis in recent days that the only communication about other possible dangers such as radioactive fallout from damaged reactors has been one way, coming to residents through portable, battery-operated FM radios. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Damage to submarine telecommunications cables from the earthquake in Japan Friday is worse than first believed, with two segments of a trans-Pacific network out of service and at least two other cables damaged. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Twitter has been a lifeline for Westerners both inside and outside of Japan as they try to keep up with fast-moving events following Friday's massive earthquake and the tsunami that followed. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Chinese Internet users have reported greater difficulty accessing Gmail in recent weeks, prompting speculation that the Chinese government is again stepping up its efforts to control the flow of information on the Web. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took a step out of Mark Hurd's shadow Monday, unveiling a new cloud computing platform that puts the company in competition with Amazon and Google. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Drug-maker Biogen Idec's IT team used cloud infrastructure to give the company's research scientists new flexibility. Consider these key lessons learned as they adopted CloudSwitch and Amazon technology. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Premier 100 IT Leader Kenneth Corless has advice for educating an old-school boss, and more. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Google and NASA are releasing satellite images depicting the devastation last week's earthquake and tsunami caused in Japan. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Open source software is probably the most defining element of software innovation in the last decade. But the complexity of today's development environments makes open source license violations a real and common possibility. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | The Opera Dragonfly debugger can grapple with sticky JavaScript and HTML5 errors | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Taiwan will soon install its first system to sense undersea seismic movements that may herald earthquakes or tsunamis, it said Monday. The island is vulnerable to the type of offshore earthquake that ravaged Japan on Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | What does the new version of Internet Explorer have in store for enterprise IT? More speed, security features and broader support for Web standards should entice CIOs to take a look at IE9. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Infor's roughly US$1.8 billion offer for Lawson Software will likely be far from the only salvo in a bidding war for the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor that could see the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle enter the fray, according to some analysts. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Criminals have jumped on Japan's twin earthquake and tsunami disasters at record speed, security experts said today. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | VMware's vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines, templates and vApps between clouds. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It's not a revelation Google might take another stab at the massive social networking space, and not an unreasonable idea that it would announce the new service here at SXSW interactive, which is all about social networking sites and apps. So today ReadWriteWeb had the story, reporting that Google will announce a social networking site -- Google Circles -- here at South by Southwest in Austin. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Smartphones are useful during an emergency: They have their own batteries, Internet connections and, best of all, smart apps that can help save your life, says Mike Elgan. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | A series of planned electricity blackouts will begin rolling through regions in most of eastern Japan on Monday. The blackouts are intended to manage a dramatic fall in power generation capacity caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Hoping to grab some of the US$70 billion yearly worldwide market of electronic commerce software and services, IBM has launched an e-commerce practice focused on retail operation integration and analytics. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Japan's Internet infrastructure has remained surprisingly unaffected by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to Internet monitoring firm Renesys. | | | | | |
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