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Google Subscription Service Undercuts Apple
With Google Checkout, publishers will be able to sell digital content on the Web and on devices using a variety of business models.
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• Google Launches Chrome Site Blocking Extension
• Google Seeks Social Networking Face Recognition Patent
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Motorola Can't 'Envision' Using Windows Phone 7
Reinforcing its commitment to Android, representatives of the handset maker shot down suggestions that it use Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
IBM's Watson Puts Human Rivals In Jeopardy
Big Blue's supercomputer wins both Daily Doubles, but thinks Toronto is a U.S. city.
Global CIO: Google CEO Schmidt Whines About Nokia Snub
Schmidt didn't help his company by criticizing Nokia's choice of Microsoft or by describing a creepy future in which we're never lonely.
IBM Introduces Workload-Optimized Data Center Systems
The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension adds functionality to IBM's mainframe system, allowing integration and management of Power 7 and x86 blade servers.
Report Blames Northrop Grumman For Virginia Outages
A review of the week-long statewide network outage said it was caused by a combination of human error, faulty hardware, and a failure to follow best practices.
Federal IT Budget Reflects Strategic Cuts, Innovation Investment
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says government will slash IT budgets where projects aren't working, while spending more on innovation.
HP's Half Step Back Into Data Warehousing
Vertica acquisition fills a big gap, but it also raises questions about Hewlett Packard's alliances and broader ambitions.
Constant Contact Buys Social CRM Developer
Bantam Live was acquired by the SMB-focused online marketing firm to integrate customer data collection and management across email, social media, and other channels.
Google Public Data Explorer Admits Public
The visualization tool can now be used to create graphs and charts from personally provided data sets.
Android Trojan Practices Click Fraud
HonTouTou malware hidden with repackaged -- typically, pirated -- applications first surfaced on third-party online software markets in China.
Oracle Releases Database Firewall
Software monitors databases in real time to prevent SQL injection attacks or unauthorized behavior.
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Networking In A Virtualized World
Virtualization is rapidly evolving into a core element of next-generation data centers. This expanded role places new strains on the network. This report explores the technical issues exposed by virtualized infrastructure and looks at standards, technologies, and best practices that can make your network ready to support virtualization.
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Business Agility Revealed: How IT Can Enable Business Change with Application Lifecycle Management
Businesses need to address changing markets and environments. That is only possible when IT systems can provide the flexibility to meet strategic needs. To truly enable business change, IT managers must develop agile approaches to planning, developing, deploying, and operating software applications through adequate application lifecycle management.
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Exchange 2010 Data Protection Tips
Exchange Server administrators need to protect databases and provide disaster recovery. Check out this report to learn how to create volume-based copies of data using snapshots, clones and replicas by automating data protection and recovery operations. Download Now
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FEATURED BLOG
 Investing In Social CRM
By Michele Pepe-Warren
Constant Contact just shelled out a cool $15 million to build out its social media platform. That's how confident company executives are that social networking is the key to success for small businesses.
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Go Green With Download Services
By Lamont Wood
Using courier services to deliver files by hand makes no sense, even if they are too big for e-mail delivery.
What If Storage Hardware Mattered?
By George Crump
It seems like every week I speak to a storage hardware company that informs me that they are really a software company. What they typically mean by this is that they are trying to differentiate themselves by the software capabilities that they put on top of the storage hardware more so than the actual hardware itself. This means that the hardware is basic. The reality is we need great hardware manufacturers more than ever.
LifeSize Enhances Video Conferencing Systems
By Paul Korzeniowski
Corporate use of video conferencing systems is on the rise. To widen its market niche, LifeSize enhanced its solution, with the highlight being support for HD content on mobile devices, such as the Apple iPhone and iPad.
Successful Security: It Is In The Details
By George Hulme
Security is both hard to do right, and easy to make the simple mistakes that could jeopardize the security of most any organization. It may be a mistake that comprises of being a single digit off. And that one number could be the difference between a secure network and one that is readily breached. That was the overriding message in a Security B-Sides Conference presentation given today by Mike Lloyd, chief scientist at security software maker Red Seal Systems.
How to Grow your Business in a Market of Continual Change
Join Stephanie Stahl, Executive Editor, InformationWeek & TechWeb and Paul Brunet, Vice President, IBM WebSphere and BPM Product Marketing for a discussion on how savvy business managers are using technology to chart a path to growth, partnering with their technology departments to deliver value, and creating an unprecedented advantage over the competition.
It happens Wednesday, February 23, 2010 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Attend Cloud Connect
Learn how to take the next step in cloud computing at Cloud Connect, the leading conference and expo for IT professionals, executives, and developers.
It happens in Santa Clara, Calif., March 7-10.
2011 InformationWeek Government IT Innovators
For the past 22 years, InformationWeek has honored the country's most technologically innovative companies with its prestigious InformationWeek 500 ranking. Now in its third year, InformationWeek's 2011 Government IT Innovators program will feature the most innovative government IT organizations in the 2011 InformationWeek 500 issue and on InformationWeek.com.
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