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Review: Ubuntu breaks from the Linux pack

High-tech healthcare technology gone wild | Cisco's credibility problems

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Review: Ubuntu breaks from the Linux pack
Ubuntu 11.04 (nicknamed Natty Narwhal) marks a decided change in direction for the Linux-based operating system. The biggest change is that Canonical, the organizer of Ubuntu, is replacing the Gnome/KDE desktop environment with a new user interface called Unity. Read More


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The Netezza Data Appliance Architecture
Success in any enterprise depends on having the best available information in time to make sound decisions. Read now

High-tech healthcare technology gone wild
DNA chips, microworms and a real-life Star Trek Tricorder are just a few of the latest high-tech healthcare developments. Read More

Cisco's credibility problems
As Cisco grapples with its own internal issues - getting back to basics with routing and switching, while streamlining its product lines and investments to regain lost profitability... and credibility with investors - it's got some hefty external ones as well. Read More

VoIP company sues Apple over iCloud name
An Arizona provider of VoIP services is suing Apple for trademark infringement over the latter's use of the name iCloud for its new online storage service. Read More



Trend Micro takes aim at stealthy hackers stealing secrets
Trend Micro says it can catch hackers in action breaking into networks and trying to steal secrets with a new line of line of network-analysis tools and security services. Read More

Gigamon ships its first terabit-scale monitoring switch
Network monitoring vendor Gigamon will ship its first chassis-based switch later this month, one with a 1 Tbps backplane and room to grow. Read More

Daily innovation smackdown: Vint Cerf vs. Linus Torvalds
We are now down to the Elite Eight. In a contest to get into the semifinals, two heavyweights square off in Vint Cerf and Linus Torvalds. Cerf took down the mighty Bill Gates in the last round while Torvalds pushed Google's Eric Schmidt to the background as well. Only one can move on. Vote now! Read More


WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation

The Efficiency Essentials You're Dead Without
This white paper takes you inside Diskeeper 2011 and clearly shows you why you shouldn't run your network without it. Learn more.

Google pulls more malware from Android Market
Google removed more malware-infected applications from its Android Market last week, according to a security researcher who reported the rogue software to the company. Read More

BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet to Hit 16 More Markets Within a Month
The new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will soon become available in more of RIM's largest markets, including Indonesia. Read More

iPhone 5 rumor roundup for the week ending June 10
The announcement if iOS 5 has rescued the moribund iPhone 5 Rumor Industry. Here with a rollup of rumors for the week ending June 10. Read More

SolarWinds extends virtualization management downward
Virtualization complexity can present a challenge to IT managers at just about any company size. But SolarWinds doesn't think that need be the case. Read More

The More the Merrier Doesn't Apply to Management Tools
You may be yearning to buy management tools from yet another vendor, but NetForecast's recent survey of performance management best practices and their results shows that using more management tools is not necessarily better. Read More



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