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1. Editor's Note: New InformationWeek Tools For You To Play With
2. Today's Top Story
- Windows Steals Top Server Operating System Spot From Unix
3. Breaking News
- Wi-Fi Moving To London
- Firefox Essentials: Get To Know Your Profile
- Microsoft Puts 'Dynamics Snap' Code Into Public Realm
- Apple May Be Going After OS X Hacker
- Study: Server Shipments Grow By Nearly 9%; Dell Stays On Top
- Gaza IT Center Prepares To Break Ground
- Software Program Pinpoints IP Violations
- Charles Schwab To Cover All Fraud Losses
- CurtCo Media Completes Forklift Upgrade Of IT Infrastructure
- Sprint Nextel Profit Falls On Merger Charges
4. Grab Bag
- U.S. Technology Has Been Used To Block, Censor Net For Years
- All Google's Roads Lead To Kansas
- Opinion: Mac Attack A Load Of Crap
5. In Depth
- Google Infringes On Nude Photo Site: Court
- Former FCC Head Powell: Washington Is 'Broken'
- Judge Denies U.S. Bid For Another BlackBerry Hearing
- Group Files New Complaint With EU Against Microsoft
- State CIOs Need To Play Bigger Role In Health IT Plans
- U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications
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- Is The CIO 'Field Of Dreams' A Greenfield Data-Center Deployment?
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- Storage Management Buyers Guide
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Windows Steals Top Server Operating System Spot From Unix
Wi-Fi Moving To London
Firefox Essentials: Get To Know Your Profile
Microsoft Puts 'Dynamics Snap' Code Into Public Realm
Apple May Be Going After OS X Hacker
Study: Server Shipments Grow By Nearly 9%; Dell Stays On Top
Gaza IT Center Prepares To Break Ground
Software Program Pinpoints IP Violations
Charles Schwab To Cover All Fraud Losses
CurtCo Media Completes Forklift Upgrade Of IT Infrastructure
Sprint Nextel Profit Falls On Merger Charges
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U.S. Technology Has Been Used To Block, Censor Net For Years
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All Google's Roads Lead To Kansas (Wired News)
Opinion: Mac Attack A Load Of Crap (Wired News)
Google Infringes On Nude Photo Site: Court
Former FCC Head Powell: Washington Is 'Broken'
Judge Denies U.S. Bid For Another BlackBerry Hearing
Group Files New Complaint With EU Against Microsoft
State CIOs Need To Play Bigger Role In Health IT Plans
U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications
Is The CIO 'Field Of Dreams' A Greenfield Data-Center Deployment?
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1. Editor's Note: New InformationWeek Tools For You To Play With
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Microsoft's Windows edges out Unix in 2005 as the best-selling
server operating system, marking the first time Unix hasn't held
the top spot in more than a decade.
The service is expected to go live within the next few months,
and the entire city will be covered within six months, according
to the network's provider.
Firefox puts almost all of your "favorites" information, along
with passwords and other key data, into your profile folder. Even
if you're not much of a techie, it's a good idea to know where to
find your Firefox profile, what types of files you'll find there,
and how you can protect them against mishaps.
Microsoft has made broadly available the source code for software
binding Axapta and CRM applications to Office.
On Tuesday, the site of a hacker known among tech circles as
Maxxuss was offline, sparking speculation that its Internet
service provider had pulled the plug at Apple's request.
The x86 market in North America had the strongest growth of all
server segments, a new Gartner report says. In contrast, shipments
in the RISC/Itanium market fell by 6.8% during the same period.
The goal is to train Gaza residents in everything from computer
use to managing networks, to help reduce the 33% unemployment
rate among the 1.3 million people living in the region.
With software developers all over the world creating untold
millions of lines of code daily, a knowledge base that sorts out
intellectual property aspects of that software has been created
by a Massachusetts company.
The online broker issues a guarantee against losses from
unauthorized account access, the latest online trader to try and
calm customer jitters about phishing scams.
The fast-growing publishing company had a variety of systems that
weren't performing well and decided to replace them all with gear
from Dell.
Some analysts said they were disappointed by smaller-than-expected
additions of wireless customers who pay their bills monthly, as
opposed to less-predictable prepaid customers.
IT security experts feel more confident, phishing attacks become an
everyday part of life, Apple OS X critical security flaw, and more.
Former FCC chairman Michael Powell praises the Apple chief at the
Silicon Flatirons Conference at the U of Colorado.
Tony sounds off on what's bugging him about the IT industry lately.
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4. Grab Bag: News You Need From Around The Web
If you think there's something new or unique about Google
censoring its Chinese Web site or Websense helping Yemen filter
the Net, well, I hate to disappoint you. Those congressmen acting
surprised about this stuff are either grandstanding or ignorant,
or maybe both. To varying degrees, U.S. tech companies help
repressive regimes around the world sift, block, and censor the
Net. They've been doing it for years.
If you want to find Kristine Crispel's horse farm outside
Coffeyville, Kan., the directions are easy: Step 1: Go to Google
Maps. Step 2: Zoom in.
All the Mac viruses and security holes in the news are overblown.
They're news only because of their novelty, not the threat they pose.
A new court ruling could effectively bar Google from featuring
thumbnail pictures--small versions of photos that are linked to
a bigger version of the same picture--but not limit Google from
linking to actual photos that exist on other Web sites.
Michael Powell, speaking at a conference this week, says the
level of partisanship is the worst in decades, making it
impossible to get anything accomplished. "When your major
objective is to make sure the other team fails ... that's not
policy making, that's like rugby."
Government users will get no special treatment if the BlackBerry
service is shut down, the judge ordered, at least as far as the
legal system is involved. The ruling comes just a couple of days
before the judge will consider whether to order that shutdown.
A vendor consortium that includes Sun, IBM, and Oracle has asked
the European Commission to take further antitrust action against
Microsoft, especially in the area of allowing their products to
interoperate with Microsoft's.
Since states pay a lot of money through programs like Medicaid
and to provide benefits for state employees, state CIOs need to
promote efforts and remove barriers hindering health-care IT
efforts in their states.
The patent--issued on Valentine's Day--covers all rich-media
technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax,
and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any
device over the Internet, according to the patent holders.
Do CIOs and IT managers dream of the opportunity to build a
data-center infrastructure from the ground up, with no regard for
legacy requirements of existing equipment and software, or is the
bigger challenge in finding ways to improve existing
infrastructures with incremental changes and additions?
Data is becoming an increasingly valuable asset for an on-demand
business. As its value has grown, so have the quantity and
complexity of information, making it more costly to store and manage.
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