Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Firefox turns 5, has big plans; The Hardware Hall of Fame; Twitter, LinkedIn link up on tweets

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Firefox, five years out of Phoenix's ashes, aims at mobile, video, offline

In November 2004, a skunksworks project called Phoenix turned into a browser called Firefox and now five years later the plan is to rise again, but this time not from ashes. Read full story

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The Hardware Hall of Fame
From mainframes and minis to PCs and PDAs, our picks for the greatest, most enduring computer hardware of all time.

Twitter, LinkedIn link up on tweets
A partnership announced this week lets Twitter and LinkedIn users post status updates to the two Web sites simultaneously.

Ten great iPhone hobby apps
Grilling. Bird watching. Shopping. Whatever your downtime passion, there's an app for that. Here's a look at ten intriguing options to help you recharge.

News podcast: Network World 360
Microsoft yesterday shipped the final release of Exchange 2010, ushering in not so much the latest version of its messaging server but the first updated piece of its unified communications and collaboration platform. Also, Sprint Nextel expects to lay off as many as 2,500 people by year's end, on the heels of reporting that it lost 545,000 customers in its third quarter. (5:26)

Google Gives Wi-Fi Away at 47 US Airports for Holidays
Call it an early holiday gift from Google to millions of airline passengers. Google said will be offering free Wi-Fi to travelers across the United States starting Tuesday at 47 airports. Google says the Wi-Fi will be available until January 15, 2010. Google says it will also extend the free Wi-Fi offer to Virgin America flights within the continental United States.

Gartner seeing huge adoption of software-as-a-service
Customer interest in cloud-based software applications is soaring, with software-as-a-service revenues set to reach $7.5 billion in 2009 – an increase of nearly 18% over last year, according to new research from Gartner.

Jailbroken iPhones: set free to get mugged
A worm worms it's way into some iPhones that have been jailbroken -- self-vandalized to run unauthorized software. But no worries, as they say in Austrialia, where the worm, called Ikee, was written by an out-of-work programmer who admitted he was a "little niave" about the resulting global digistorm.

Microsoft's Delicate Balancing Act Between Cloud and Data Center
TechEd's focus on Exchange 2010 this week is all about the efficiency gains through improved productivity, lower power consumption (thanks to Windows Server 2008 R2) and decreased storage costs of Exchange 2010. Thank the economy for the focus on efficiency gains. Upgrades like Exchange 2010 will get close budget scrutiny in 2010/2011 and for the remainder of this year.

Microsoft, Novell say alliance still bearing fruit
The alliance between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Corp. continues to bear fruit three years after it was first signed, say the two companies, one the world's largest proprietary software vendor and the other one of the largest of open-source software.

Apple delivers mammoth update, patches 58 bugs
Apple patched 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating systems today, the most since May 2009, including several in the QuickTime media player that it had fixed separately in early September.

November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page.

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Ethernet everywhere!
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7 tools to ease Windows 7 rollout
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November 10, 2009

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