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*Apple Ties For Third In U.S. PC Market
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*SunRocket Subscribers Find Alternative Service, But Number
Porting Is Slow
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*IBM Reports 19% Increase In Second Quarter Earnings
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*U.S. Tech Employment Hits Its Highest Point In Seven Years
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*Abandoned SunRocket Subscribers Find New VoIP Dial Tones
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*IBM Research Head Steps Down
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( Today's Top Story)
Apple Ties For Third In U.S. PC Market
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Apple was neck and neck with Gateway, lagging behind No. 1 Dell
and No. 2 Hewlett-Packard, according to market researchers IDC.
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Microsoft Calls Windows Vista SP1 Reports 'Inaccurate'
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Company officials say Tuesday's reports were a result of a typo
in an e-mail to developers.
Microsoft Hit With A Second Xbox 360 Class Action Suit
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The suit alleges that the Xbox 360 console scratches expensive
game discs, making them impossible to use.
Big Computer-Makers Catch iPhone Fever
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Handset makers including Nokia, Motorola, and Research In Motion
announced new smartphones this week, hoping to capitalize on the
"halo effect" of increased customer interest driven by the iPhone introduction.
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D'oh! Spammers Exploiting New Simpson's Movie
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The spammed e-mails try to lure unsuspecting users to a Web site,
where their e-mail address will be harvested for later spamming
attacks, according to researchers at Sophos.
Facebook Makes First Acquisition In Start-Up Parakey
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Parakey is a stealth start-up co-founded by Firefox co-creators
Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt that aims to synch content on a Web
site with content on a PC.
Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount
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Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units in its latest
fiscal quarter, compared to 1.8 million in the same quarter in 2006.
(Networking News of the Week)
SunRocket Subscribers Find Alternative Service, But Number
Porting Is Slow
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Some subscribers complained that it's taking too long to port
their old phone numbers to a new service, while others are
suspicious that competing VoIP companies will fade out just like
SunRocket did.
IBM Reports 19% Increase In Second Quarter Earnings
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IBM said revenue increased 9% year-over-year to $23.8 billion,
while per-share earnings rose 19% to $1.55.
U.S. Tech Employment Hits Its Highest Point In Seven Years
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The 2% unemployment rate matches other professional categories
and is a big improvement from 5% in 2004.
Abandoned SunRocket Subscribers Find New VoIP Dial Tones
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SunRocket's subscribers have found several alternate VoIP service
providers happy to sign them up.
IBM Research Head Steps Down
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The new leader of the computing industry's largest research arm
is John Kelly, most recently IBM's senior VP for technology and
intellectual property.
CIOs Embrace IP Telephony
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A survey of senior IT and business managers shows that 63% plan
to deploy an IP PBX within the next 12 months.
VoIP Migration Best Practices
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Making the switch to an IP telephony platform is a complex
process; here's how to do it right.
Qwest Expands Its Nationwide Fiber Optic Network
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The company says it has tripled the geographic availability of
its nationwide fiber optic network while at the same time
quadrupling the broadband capacity for existing customers.
EMC Upgrades Flagship Storage Arrays
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The Symmetrix DMX-4 supports both high-speed Fibre Channel disk
drives and low-cost 750Gbyte SATA II disk drives and reduces
energy consumption by up to 33%.
Verizon Business Launches Ultra High Bandwidth Optical Network
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The Verizon Integrated Optical Service integrates dense wave
division multiplexing, synchronous optical networking, and Ethernet.
India's Reliance Comm Buys U.S. Ethernet Firm Yipes
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Reliance Communications Ltd., India's second-biggest mobile
services provider, said on Monday it was buying U.S.-based Yipes
Holdings for $300 million cash, the latest in a wave of foreign
buys by Indian firms.
Reality IT: So You Think You're NAC Compliant? Think Again
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The lack of a certification program makes it tricky to get NAC right.
Monday Morning Analyst: "Unwired Enterprise" Is A Smart Move For Nortel
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Nortel recently laid out its vision of the "Unwired Enterprise,"
describing how it would offer wireless LAN functionality as part
of its Ethernet switches rather than as an overlay network. We
asked our resident Wi-Fi experts what they think. Turns out, they
see things quite differently. Find out what Frank Bulk thinks.
Monday Morning Analyst: The Potential Of Unwired Enterprise Is Limited
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Nortel recently laid out its vision of the "Unwired Enterprise,"
describing how it would offer wireless LAN functionality as part
of its Ethernet switches rather than as an overlay network. We
asked our resident Wi-Fi experts what they think. Turns out, they
see things quite differently. Find out what Dave Molta thinks.
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Qualcomm Supports Verizon Wireless-Broadcom Deal
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay Broadcom as much as $6 per
handset and could end up paying as much as $200 million.
Federal Prosecutor:Cybercrime Is Funding Organized Crime
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Cybercrime has been so profitable for organized crime that the
mob is using it to fund their other underground exploits. And
U.S. law enforcement is reaching around the world to reel them in.
DoJ Pitches Legislation To Strengthen Identity Theft Laws
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The bill seeks to supplement current laws so corporations are
more protected, while also repaying people for the time spent
repairing their finances.
Computer Plays Perfect Game of Checkers
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University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, thanks to
their game playing computer, Chinook. And it only took eighteen years.
Verizon Wireless Reverses Field, Signs Broadcom Licensing Deal
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The deal calls for Verizon Wireless to pay licensing fees of $6
for each handset it sells, or up to $40 million per calendar
quarter and up to a lifetime maximum of $200 million.
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