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A New Green Gold Standard; Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764 million

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A New Green Gold Standard
A recent Environmental Protection Agency study on energy-saving opportunities in servers and data centers noted that the industry uses an enormous amount of energy - more than 1.5% of all electricity generated in the U.S. - and that that number is expected to double over the next five years. So it's no surprise that many people see data centers as a major part of the climate change problem.
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State of Indiana
Allstate Insurance Co.
Burt's Bees
State Street Corp.
Austin Energy
Seventh Generation
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Office Depot
Citigroup

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Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764 million
Following a rejection of efforts to purchase the company in January, Broadcom on Tuesday made an unsolicited bid to purchase Emulex for $764 million.

Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical
Mozilla Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5.

The Polite Way to Take a Break, Ignore, Unfollow on Twitter
The more people you follow on Twitter, the more you realize the truth: Sometimes, you want a short break from certain people. Sometimes, you even need to break up. Topping the list of annoyances, there's the too much information (TMI) tweets, followed closely by the criminally self-promotional and the disgustingly self-indulgent. These tweets can trickle into your Twitter stream with great regularity, rendering the service at times useless.

BlackBerry Tips: Delete Carrier Crapware, Icons
Every so often, wireless carriers take it upon themselves to push out their own branded, or at least sanctioned, applications and services to BlackBerry users in the form of "service book" updates--regardless of whether or not said users actually want them. AT&T seems to be particularly fond of the practice, and this weekend it not only pushed out a dozen or so new link-icons to its BlackBerry customers' devices, but also delivered a new version of its own "app store," Media Mall 2.0.

Can you cut information security in hard times and survive
Although some analysts actually expect security spending to rise this year -- at least as a percentage of total IT spending -- some CIOs are giving serious thought to the once-unthinkable idea of trimming security budgets as businesses look to cut costs during this global recession.

Oracle's Sun Is Blinding In Microsoft's Eyes
Mitchell Ashley says in his Microsoft Subnet blog that the industry now knows what Sun wants to be when it grows up: Oracle. Ashley gives his view on the deal.

AT&T launches content distribution service
AT&T is offering a content distribution service that lets companies stream video and other multimedia across their networks from behind their own firewalls.

Day One RSA: Scouting Mission
Cisco Subnet blogger Jimmy Ray Purser takes you through a first-hand visual tour of RSA 2009 in San Francisco.

April giveaways galore
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and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30.

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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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04/22/09

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  1. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition
  2. The biggest loser in Oracle-Sun deal: SAP
  3. 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
  4. VMware vows to overhaul data center with "cloud operating system"
  5. Why the Oracle/Sun deal is bad news for Microsoft, SQL Server
  6. Buzzblog: Oracle acquires Sun in $7.4B stunner
  7. Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management
  8. Oracle agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B
  9. Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership, analysts say
  10. Six things that could ruin Twitter (and five that won't)
  11. Honda demos motion-assistance devices


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