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10 great Google Apps add-ons for the enterprise; Cisco backpedals on WiMAX

Cisco backpedals on WiMAX with Starent buy; What kind of cloud computing project would you build with $32 million?
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10 great Google Apps add-ons for the enterprise

Over the past six months, dozens of developers have built apps to make Google's office wares (Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar) more appealing for the enterprise. Here is a selection of these apps. Read full story

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Cisco backpedals on WiMAX with Starent buy
This week's $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks indicates that Cisco is backpedaling from its WiMAX focus and shifting it to LTE as the 4G underpinning of next generation mobile data networks.

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The US Department of Energy said it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Dramatic license in the Bing/Google race
Media coverage of the search industry often reminds me of the editing on The Amazing Race. Even if the first-place team is miles and hours ahead of the second-place team, the producers have to make things seem close and exciting. Otherwise, why would you watch?

Bugs hit Google Docs after recent upgrade
Google Docs users are having problems printing, exporting and uploading certain files, the company acknowledged, as it is rolling out a set of upgrades to this hosted office productivity suite.

Brocade taps Motorola for Wi-Fi
Brocade Tuesday said it is refreshing its Wi-Fi product line via a five-year strategic partnership with Motorola.

Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite
Microsoft today announced a number of improvements to its hosted Office productivity suite, dubbed the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. Redmond has added support for PowerShell commandlets, tripled the number of users each account can support (to 30,000) and has improved life for its Mac users.

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October 15, 2009

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  1. Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet
  2. Google to send detailed information about hacked Web sites
  3. 802.11n price wars already underway
  4. IE, GDI flaws good place for IT to start Patch Tuesday cleanup
  5. Developer ups iPhone app to $40 after complaints about price
  6. Human race on the verge of a massive upgrade
  7. Cisco buying wireless wunderkind Starent
  8. Sidekick implosion: Was it sabotage?
  9. Microsoft delivers massive Patch Tuesday, fixes 34 flaws
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