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George Hulme

More Anti-Virus Fail
By focusing on threats, rather than vulnerabilities, those who rely on anti-virus software to stop rapidly evolving attacks are simply asking for their systems to be owned.

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Charles Babcock

Cross-Hypervisor VKernel Offers Free Capacity Tool
VKernel is offering a free, lightweight tool for evaluating the capacity management of your VMware virtual machines. It's an example of what you can do to get started in intelligent virtual machine management without committing to a big management framework and thousands of dollars of expense.

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Thomas Claburn

GDC: Game Developers Conference Wrap-Up
As the Game Developers Conference winds down in San Francisco, I'm struck by the apparent vitality of the gaming industry. There was real excitement, enthusiasm, and hope for the future among the developers there. Between the mobile revolution and the surge in social gaming, there's a sense of opportunity and ambition that's just not evident in other industry sectors.

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Eric Zeman

50K Apple iPad Pre-Orders In 2 Hours
Today Apple began accepting pre-orders for its iPad tablet device. Based on analyst estimates, approximately 50,000 were pre-ordered during the first two hours of availability. At that rate, Apple will sell one million by tomorrow. Also, plenty of new details about the device have surfaced.

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Bob Evans

Gates, Ellison Top Billionaires From Tech Industry
Seventeen tech-industry executives made the new Forbes list of billionaires, led by Bill Gates in the #2 spot and Larry Ellison in the #6 spot. Can it be true that Facebook parvenu Mark Zuckerberg outranks Apple icon Steve Jobs? Here's a list of those 17 along with their ranks and estimated net worths.

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Enterprise Efficiency

Confessions of a Browser Slut
When it comes to how many Web browsers to use, more is better

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Nicole Ferraro

Twitter Withers Next to Facebook's 'Net Effect'
While Twitter users have made a habit out of not producing much content, Facebook is benefiting from the 'network effect'

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Stephen Blair-chappell

How To Do Parallelism Without Getting Egg On Your Face
The other day I put together a trivial parallel code example that was going to be used in a 'how-to' document. The code was nothing much more complicated than a parallel 'hello world'. The sort of thing you could write while asleep. I then sent the code to three colleagues for review. Well, embarrassingly the code came back, the reviewers pointing out that the code had a data race and the results of the program were inconsistent.





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MIX10: Microsoft To Launch Silverlight Tools

Microsoft will unveil Silverlight Analytics Framework at the Web designers & developers conference kicking off March 15 in Las Vegas, while Preemptive will launch Runtime Intelligence Analytics Provider for Silverlight.

What's IT Worth? Northwestern Mutual Life CIO Knows

CIO Tim Schaefer's team puts hard-dollar values on IT systems as assets, and boldly says the language IT uses is important.

Juniper Fires Back At Cisco CRS-3

As the networking behemoths battle over router speed claims, both are attempting to cement public personas, and clue in non-technical consumers on who they are.

Citrix Preps XenApp 6

XenApp 6 will launch this month with management tools designed to ease the difficulty of virtualizing enterprise applications.

China Warns Google To Obey Law

Promising consequences if Google flouts China's censorship laws, Chinese authorities also chide the U.S. for its human rights record.

Guerra On Healthcare: Vendors Vie For Platform Space

Vendors duke it out at HIMSS conference in bid to provide the healthcare platform that everyone wants.


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Bob Evans

Global CIO: Why IBM CEO Palmisano Earned His $24.3 Million
Layoffs, though unfortunate, helped IBM outperform most of the global marketplace as it prepares for continued growth.

Craig Mathias
Craig Mathias

Mathias On Mobility: Skype & Verizon Are Path To 4G
The landline/Internet communications services we so depend upon will be available in the mobile world sooner rather than later.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: Vendors Vie For Platform Space
Vendors duke it out at HIMSS conference in bid to provide the healthcare platform that everyone wants.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: Electronic Healthcare Won't Be Denied
Obstacles abound, no doubt. But three huge constituents will demand it: government, large providers -- and the customers who will benefit.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: Are You Neglecting Your WAN?
Web apps and consolidated data centers are adding pressure, and video will bring even more. It could be time to explore new options.

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Alexander Wolfe

Server Den: Juniper Fires Back At Cisco CRS-3
As the networking behemoths battle over router speed claims, both are attempting to cement public personas, and clue in non-technical consumers on who they are.

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Fritz Nelson

Adobe, Microsoft Spar Over Flash, Silverlight, HTML5
Adobe and Microsoft execs debate the merits of Flash and Silverlight, the looming threat of HTML5, and the battle for mobile dominance in our weekly Fritz & David Show Podcast.

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: What's IT Worth? Northwestern Mutual Life CIO Knows
CIO Tim Schaefer's team puts hard-dollar values on IT systems as assets, and boldly says the language IT uses is important.

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