Tuesday, April 14, 2009

15 nifty BlackBerry apps; Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch; Ethernet in space

VMware to debut new hypervisor April 21; BlackBerry Web e-mail users experience three-hour outage
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15 nifty BlackBerry apps for IT pros
By Brad Reed
Research in Motion last week joined Apple and Google by opening its online store to sell third-party applications for its smartphones. The BlackBerry App World, which can be downloaded for free onto your BlackBerry, offers hundreds of applications for social networking, productivity, reference, entertainment, personal finance and more. In this slideshow, we'll look at 15 we found that should be useful to a busy IT pro. View slideshow

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Sun introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up today, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an emerging rival in the server market, Cisco. Also, BlackBerry users around the United States were stranded for about three hours yesterday when their Web-based e-mail service blacked out. (6:17)

Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch
Sun introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up on Tuesday, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an emerging rival in the server market, Cisco.

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NASA takes Ethernet deeper into space
While Ethernet technology has gone places no one would have envisioned 36 years ago, NASA today signed an agreement with a German Ethernet vendor to build highly fault-tolerant networks for space-based applications. TTTech builds a set of time-triggered services called TTEthernet that is implemented on top of standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet. Its technology is designed to enable design of synchronous, highly dependable embedded computing and networking, capable of tolerating multiple faults, the company said.

VMware to debut new hypervisor April 21
VMware on April 21 will release the highly anticipated vSphere software, the next generation of its flagship virtualization engine, according to VMware business partner Unisys.

BlackBerry Web e-mail users experience three-hour outage
BlackBerry users around the United States were stranded for about three hours yesterday when their Web-based e-mail service blacked out.

Amazon says listing problem was an error, not a hack
Web retailer Amazon.com blamed a glitch that knocked gay-and-lesbian-themed books out of its main product search engine on a "ham-fisted cataloging error," and disputed one man's claim that he had hacked the site to make this happen.

EMC's new Symmetrix array targets virtual data centers
EMC is unveiling a new Symmetrix storage array designed to support heavily virtualized data centers with hundreds of petabytes of storage and mass quantities of virtual servers.

Google preps next version of Android
Developers will now be able to take a look at the SDK (Software Development Kit) for the next version of the Android platform, Google announced on Monday on its developer blog.

Malicious code spikes in '08, Symantec reports
Malicious code threats more than doubled, and the United States retained the dubious distinction of being the top cyber sore spot, according to Symantec's 2008 Internet Security Threat Report.

NASA: Aging Mars rover hit with computer woes again
Less than three months after dealing with a glitch that stalled one of its two Mars rovers, NASA is reporting yet another problem with the same machine.

Twitter Worm: A Closer Look at What Happened
It looks like Twitter's Web site has been scrubbed clean after several bouts of the "Mikeyy" or "StalkDaily" worm plagued the service. Even though the threat seems to have passed, questions remain about just how serious this attack was and if there will be any repercussions for the worm's creator.

Brocade ups FCoE stakes
Last week at Storage Networking World Brocade stepped right into the middle of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet fray with the announcement of two new converged network adapters and a top-of-the rack FCoE switch. Since June last year the company has intimated about these products - they did not announce an FCoE blade for their DCX data center switch they had previously talked about.


Eye-catching gadgets at CTIA
10 eye-catching gadgets at CTIA From WiMAX hotspots to $2,000 cell phones, a look at what caught our attention at CTIA Wireless.

Are you an IT geezer?
Quiz: Are you an IT geezer? (and we mean that in a good way)Sure, the new generation knows Facebook, Android and Twitter. But what about ISDN, SNA and X.25? Take the quiz!

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04/14/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Fact-checking the fact-checkers: Snoopes.com gets an 'A'
  2. Conficker awakens, starts scamming
  3. The Internet Kill Switch
  4. Breakthrough enables Terabit Ethernet
  5. Netbook computers spark corporate interest
  6. Twitter worm attack continues: Here's how to keep safe
  7. The 10 worst Microsoft product names of all time
  8. Microsoft eating up U.S. and global netbook markets
  9. Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet
  10. EMC's new Symmetrix array targets virtual data centers
  11. Students learn through robot battles


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