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Eric Zeman

HP Picks Worst Name Ever For New Smartphone
Hewlett Packard has occasionally tossed a new iPAQ-branded smartphone into the market more as proof that it can still make them than to scare up any real sales. Its latest smartphone is perhaps one of the best-looking it has ever crafted, but HP crippled it with a terrible, horrible, no-good name.

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Elias Khnaser

Up With Virtual Grid Power
I recently wrote a column for InformationWeek Analytics that got some e-mail responses, and I thought the discussion was interesting enough to post the column and some of the comments that sparked the discussion. So here goes.

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Serdar Yegulalp

Google's New Chrome OS Partner: Ubuntu
Among the people Google's partnering with to build Chrome OS, there's now a very familiar name: Canonical, the folks behind Ubuntu. In their words: "Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract" (for Chrome OS).

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George Crump

The Future Of Storage As A Virtual Machine
In our last few entries we looked at what can be done today with storage software running as virtual machines. In this entry we will consider what the future holds for storage as a virtual machine. Storage as a virtual machine may be the only way you apply data services in the future.

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Dave Methvin

Prepare for IE9 -- Or Not
Internet Explorer 8 may have just shipped, but last week Dean Hachamovitch who is General Manager for Internet Explorer provided some hints about what is coming with IE9. A release date wasn't one of the hints that was dropped; I think it's far away.

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Nicole Ferraro

Forecasting the Demise of Social Media
With users buying Friends and Followers and acting as shills for marketers, we may see the carefully crafted coils of the social graph start to come undone

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Gaston Hillar

Detecting Scalability Problems With Intel Parallel Universe Portal
You already know that achieving a linear speedup as the number of cores increases in real life parallelized applications is indeed very difficult. However, sometimes, the multicore scalability of certain algorithms for existing multicore systems could be worse than expected. The overhead and the bugs introduced by concurrency could bring really unexpected scalability problems when the number of cores increases. Intel can help you with a free service in the cloud.



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Bob Evans

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As Thanksgiving looms, we sometimes overlook those better angels of our nature that are all around us. And that's a mistake.

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Global CIO: SAP's Spread-Out Payment Plan Is Good But Not Enough
The ERP business has become a buyers' market and is likely to stay this way. SAP could be on the verge of capitalizing on that.

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Rob Preston

Down To Smarter Business: People Want Technology Focused On Results, Not ''Solutions''
Sensors, wireless, cloud computing, machine-to-machine networks--they're all coming together to change how people get their jobs done.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: How Locked In To Vendors Are You?
Stem-to-stern storage, networking, and management products are coming from several vendors. Is that a positive trend?

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John Foley

Government Technologist: Vivek Kundra's Data Center Problem
The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Can Federal CIO Vivek Kundra put a stop to the trend?

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Alexander Wolfe

Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.

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Fritz Nelson

Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent
An interview with the city's mayor and IT principals about DataSF.org and its groundbreaking applications

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: Microsoft Data Center Strategy Vital To Azure
The company envisions a more just-in-time approach to bringing on data center capacity.

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Brian Gillooly

Global CIO: Building A Brand Takes IT Flexibility
There are fundamental differences in how marketing and IT see their roles, and the world. And it's bad for a company's brand when the CIO and marketing execs don't get along.

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