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Ed Hansberry

RIM Acquires Documents To Go Maker DataViz
RIM has confirmed that they have acquired DataViz, the company that makes the popular Documents To Go app for mobile platforms that allows you to open and edit Microsoft Office documents on your phone. They currently support a lot of platforms, but now that RIM owns them, will they shut down all development save for the Blackberry OS?

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Thomas Claburn

Google Knows What You're Thinking, Sometimes
Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible is so ambitious and fraught with social and political risks that the company's actions and services are easy targets for satire, ridicule, or criticism. Sometimes the complaints have some merit, as in the case of the company's unintentional collection of WiFi data. More often than not, fear of Google is overstated. And occasionally, Google does something that straddles the line between cool and creepy, like Google Scribe.

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George Hulme

Twitter Hit With Another Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Over this Labor Day weekend developers at Twitter had to do a bit of additional labor that they should have previously completed - and that's to close a potentially dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability before things slid out of hand.

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Jim Rapoza

Games And Business Get Friendly
I always get a chuckle when someone is "surprised" that video games can offer value and lessons to business and tech. What a surprise! After all, video games have only been doing that since they first came into existence.

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George Crump

Are Clouds Real?
The theme last week at VMworld was “Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds” which begs the question, are we really to a point that clouds are real? The answer, as always, is “it depends”. The determent is dependent on where you sit and what your angle of view is, but for the most part clouds are more real for more businesses than they ever were.

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Enterprise Efficiency

Oracle Hires Hurd
Larry Ellison hiring his friend Mark Hurd just a month after he was forced to leave Hewlett-Packard says more about Ellison and Oracle than it does about Hurd and HP

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Nicole Ferraro

Craigslist Caves on Adult Services
Craigslist 'censors' its adult listings

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Jonathan Erickson

Parallel Studio 2011: Now We Know What Happened to Ct, Cilk++, and RapidMind
Intel has released Parallel Studio 2011, a suite of tools intended to simplify and speed up the development of parallel programs running on multicore architectures. Based on the Parallel Studio package released last year, Parallel Studio 2011 adds expanded threading libraries and a threading advisor to its C++ compiler, error-checking and profiling tools.



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HP Sues Mark Hurd Over Oracle Competition

The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and assurances from Hurd that HP's corporate secrets are safe.

Gov 2.0 Summit: Call For National Scanning Initiative

The federal government must rethink how it approaches IT if it wants to achieve open government goals, said Public.Resource.org founder Carl Malamud, and make digitizing government data a priority.

Web 2.0 Expo: The Power of Platforms

In 2009, Google said the Web had won; in 2010, it's clear that the Web is only one platform among many. Web 2.0 Expo New York will take place September 27 through 30 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.

Samsung: We'll Sell 10 Million Galaxy Tabs

Speaking in an interview, a Samsung executive said the company believes it will sell 10 million Android-powered Galaxy Tabs by this time next year.

Join The Discussion: Why Some People 'Dread' Collaboration

Has your org willingly embraced collaboration tools -- or been forced to implement them? Do you see them as a workflow enhancement or a general pain? Weigh in.

Mobile Football Madness: Best Apps For The Gridiron

As the college season kicks off, with the pros soon to follow, here start of the season, here are 20 of the best mobile apps for following your team.


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Doug Henschen

Reconsidering TPC Database Performance Benchmarks
Some say they are abstract if not downright misleading. But TPC benchmarks remain the only available standardized test of total-system performance and cost. Use them with caution.

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Eric Zeman

LG Makes 'Optimus' Windows Phone 7 Legit
LG has announced that it will brand its Windows Phone 7 devices "Optimus 7" and that they will ship during the fourth quarter of 2010.

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Fritz Nelson

InformationWeek 500 Preview: The Growth Imperative
The annual InformationWeek 500 Conference will commence Sept. 12-15. As organizations explore new ways to grow, this year's gathering will provide the fodder and inspiration to propel IT into the center of that discussion. Come join us at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, Calif.

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Bob Evans

Global CIO: Resurrecting Mark Hurd: Larry Ellison's War With IBM
One month after resigning in disgrace from HP, Hurd joins Ellison's pursuit of IBM. Here are Hurd's top 10 challenges.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: Meaningful Use Certification Confounds CIOs
Uncertainty over the data certification requirements for Electronic Health Records has normally unflappable healthcare CIOs exasperated.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: Why Some People 'Dread' Collaboration
If workers use certain collaboration tools just because they’re compelled to do so, they'll get lost in the white noise of misplaced communications.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: VDI Is An Enabler, But Not A Big Cost Saver
Desktop virtualization may not save a dime over the long haul, but it will let IT use information and serve the business better.

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: Chevron CIO Wrings Value Out Of Existing IT
A conversation with Chevron CIO Louie Ehrlich on IT opportunity and reshaping the role of the CIO.

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As virtual servers, storage and applications become the norm, vendors are offering products to consolidate host communications into a single channel.

Research: WAN Optimization Research: WAN Optimization
The notion of converged services and the buzz around private clouds are creating stress on the WAN. Are optimization appliances, physical and virtual, the answer?

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