Archive for July 14th, 2011

Remains of the Day: Payback

One iPhone owner gets a payout from Apple over location tracking, Cupertino tweaks international app prices, and just how many Gs does your phone have?

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Remains of the Day: Payback

Reports: New MacBook Airs to add storage, RAM

Two new reports suggest Apple’s doubling up on storage as part of the yet-to-be-announced entry-level MacBook Air refresh.

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Bad News for Windows: IT Is Spending on Cloud, Not PCs

Research firm IDC has tallied up PC sales for the second quarter of 2011, and the news is not good for Windows.

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Bad News for Windows: IT Is Spending on Cloud, Not PCs

SAP joins OpenJDK Java project

The apps vendor joins IBM and Apple in backing the Oracle-led initiative to produce an open source Java implementation

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IBM unifies marketing, online analytics software

In an effort to simplify work for data-welding marketing managers, IBM has combined two of its e-commerce offerings into a single online package.

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IBM rolls out cloud-based Web analytics tool

IBM has released a Web analytics tool that combines two existing products from its acquisitions last year, Coremetrics, a Web analytics provider, and Unica.

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Leave the Tech Behind: 5 Tips for a Gadget-Free Vacation

Summer: Sun; beaches; bikinis; picnic lunches; frosty libations. And vacation.

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Leave the Tech Behind: 5 Tips for a Gadget-Free Vacation

Why video and the cloud don’t mix, according to Cisco

To hear Cisco tell it at its Cisco Live conference, the next-generation network will be nothing but video. But if you are hoping to offload video as a cloud service, think again, says Guido Jouret, Cisco’s vice president of enterprise video and CTO of emerging technology.

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Why video and the cloud don’t mix, according to Cisco

Will Bill Gates Build Toilet 2.0?

Ever since Bill Gates ditched Microsoft for a life of philanthropy, he’s applied his billions toward numerous worthy causes. In February 2011, for instance, Gates donated $100 million to a global polio vaccination program.

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Will Bill Gates Build Toilet 2.0?

Will Netflix reverse price hike? Outlook not good

Video-rental service doesn’t appear ready to give any ground on new price hikes and competitors are now trying to benefit from controversy surrounding Netflix.

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Will Netflix reverse price hike? Outlook not good