Thursday, October 13, 2011

2011 tech industry graveyard

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2011 tech industry graveyard
WebOS, Cisco Flip camera, Google Labs and the rest: Our list of IT companies, technologies and ideas killed off or headed for the end of life Read More


RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011

IT Roadmap Washington, DC - 12/7 Washington Convention Cntr
IT Roadmap Washington, DC will be returning to the Washington Convention Center on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. IT Roadmap is a regional one-day technology event that features a full-day conference program, and an exposition hall with leading technology providers. Click to continue

WHITE PAPER: BMC

Order from Chaos with Data Center Automation
These days, IT needs to deliver multiple services in an increasingly complex infrastructure. Data center automation helps, but can be limited by silos. The solution? A pragmatic data center automation environment that meets the needs of both IT and business users. Learn More!

Vint Cerf on Google's privacy practices and how getting tagged in a multitude of online media is disconcerting
Few companies inspire the awe — and the dread about privacy concerns — that Google does, because of its search engine, Google maps and its Street View imagery, its Gmail e-mail and other cloud-based services. Read More

Man charged with hacking Scarlett Johansson, other celebs
A 35-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he broke into the email accounts of numerous Hollywood celebrities and stole private photographs and correspondence. Read More

Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C programming language, dead at 70
Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Read More

BlackBerry services "fully restored," says RIM
It's taken them four days, but Research in Motion now says that all of its data services have been full restored for all users. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Streamline Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions
To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions. Read More

Cloudmark tackles IPv6
Cloudmark is among the first messaging vendors to tackle the vexing issues related to integrating large-scale e-mail services with the next-generation Internet Protocol called IPv6. Read More

Apple releases iOS 5; firmware features some 200 improvements
Apple has released iOS 5 for its smartphones and tablets, bring about 200 improvements and refinements to the latest iteration of its mobile operating system. Read More

SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key (NOTE: Registration required to read full story)
In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, SUSE president and GM Nils Brauckmann shared with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant his views on the future of open source, his strategy for competing against Red Hat, and Suse's plans for helping customers build private and hybrid clouds. He also outlined his philosophy for working successfully with the open source community, talked about the role desktop Linux will and won't play in the enterprise, and explained where Suse's partnership will Microsoft is headed. Read More

China's Huawei aims to build an iconic phone brand
Phone design in China is done much like being served snake, chicken, fish and frog when eating a single meal in the country, according to Hagen Fendler, the chief design director for handsets at Chinese smartphone maker Huawei. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Fine-Tune Your IT Performance
Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more!

Lenovo surpasses Dell, becomes No. 2 PC vendor
Lenovo surpassed Dell to become the world's second largest PC vendor at the end of the third quarter, according to research firms IDC and Gartner. Read More

NASA CTO says help desks will soon be thing of past
As far as NASA's IT CTO is concerned, mobile technology and public and private cloud infrastructures will soon make help desks as we know them pointless. Read More

Mozilla sets its site on mobile standardization
After helping pave the way for platform independent websites and applications, the Mozilla Foundation has set a new, and ambitious, task for itself to standardize mobile applications on the Web platform as well, according to a talk given by its chief technology officer. Read More

Battle between Samsung and Apple heats up
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has reached fever pitch, with Apple getting an injunction to stop the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia as Samsung launches new versions of its smartphones to keep them on sale in the Netherlands. Both companies are also preparing for a hearing in California scheduled for Thursday. Read More

 
 
 

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