HP Does The Right Thing In Open Sourcing WebOS

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	HP Does The Right Thing In Open Sourcing WebOS Every once in a while things go the right way. Today's announcement by HP that they will open source WebOS is an example. The venerable OS seems to have more lives than a cat. After Palm nearly went under, only to be rescued by HP for a mere $1.2 billion, PalmOS/WebOS seemed to have a bright future again. Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software Why User Experience Monitoring is Important Don't miss this informative webcast exploring the value of monitoring web application performance from the user perspective and gain access to a free whitepaper "Monitoring Web Application Performance from the User Perspective" at the end of the presentation! View Now! In this Issue Silverlight Makes its Last Stand (Maybe) Fire Up Your Laptop? Get Out of the Data Center Business RIM PlayBook Stuck Between A Rock (Apple) And A Hard Place (Android) 3 more use Twitter to commit professional suicide Why are you online? Just passing time Can Microsoft Xbox's voice as a remote control win the hearts of Siri lovers? WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Ultralight Branch Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement and lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, and service costs. Read now. Silverlight Makes its Last Stand (Maybe) With so much concern that Microsoft is going to axe Silverlight, its graphical library meant as a competitor to Flash, you'd think the company would want to make a definitive statement of support to show its commitment. So what should we read to them releasing it on a Microsoft with minimal fanfare? Read More Fire Up Your Laptop? "Fire up your laptop"!?!?!? I've lost count of how many times I have heard this expression and remain baffled by how end-users have become accustomed to and accept the fact that it can take minutes, many minutes in some cases, before a user begins to productively start work. This is nuts! Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Map Critical Network Assets and Dependencies Learn how Riverbed provided the International Herald Tribune with an end-to-end view of application delivery paths – from servers to desktops, and how advanced traffic analysis ensured faster problem resolution and more effective WAN management. Read now! Get Out of the Data Center Business I just spoke with an IT executive at a large marketing and advertising firm. He has completely moved his data center to a local colocation facility. Read More RIM PlayBook Stuck Between A Rock (Apple) And A Hard Place (Android) Research In Motion (RIM) the company behind Blackberry smartphones and the fairly new PlayBook tablet computer has been getting hammered by Wall Street, most recently around an announcement that they have had to take a nearly half a billion dollar write down due to disappointing sales of their Playbook tablets. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell The 2011 Cloud Networking Report - Part 1 The primary goal of this report is to describe the challenges and solutions that are associated with cloud networking. A secondary goal of this report is to identify how IT organizations are currently approaching cloud networking by comparing 2010 and 2011 survey results. Read more 3 more use Twitter to commit professional suicide Three now former congressional aides are jobless this morning in part because they are worthless layabouts who drink on the job, but primarily because they are the latest to forget that Twitter lives on the Internet and tweets are visible to one and all. Read More Why are you online? Just passing time Using the Internet out of boredom? You're not alone. More adults than ever before are using the Internet to kill time, thanks to the prevalence of high-speed broadband connections and the explosion of social networking. Read More Can Microsoft Xbox's voice as a remote control win the hearts of Siri lovers? The big news today is the Xbox 360 update being pushed out to birth an amazing user experience; now your voice is the controller to navigate TV shows, movies, games, music and a plethora of content providers on Xbox Live. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Microsoft plans 20 patches next week Cisco storms back in switching How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter and search engines The worst web design mistakes, and how to prevent them 10 most powerful cloud companies Padlock salesman trades 30-pound sample case for 1.35-pound iPad Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps What's really going on with Carrier IQ on your phone Kindle Fire likely to be a hit despite middling reviews CNET accused of wrapping malware in Windows installer for Nmap security tool
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