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• Windows 8 set for release in 2012
  Paul Trotter
  Nov 23 2009

  Windows 8 will be with us in 2012, according to Microsoft roadmaps apparently revealed at last week's Professional Developers' Conference (PDC). Although Microsoft has yet to officially discuss ...

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• Revenue declines force African mobile innovation
  Rebecca Wanjiku
  Nov 23 2009

  African mobile service operators are bundling and adding services as well as investing in solar-powered phones as ways to increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) in light of decreased ...

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• Microsoft technology reduces network redundancy
  John Ribeiro
  Nov 23 2009

  Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator ...

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• Sacrifice your health for your startup
  Jason Cohen
  Nov 23 2009

  (Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. This story originally appeared on his blog.) The Internet is full of good advice about how to lead a ...

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• Atlantis astronauts: Final spacewalk, preparing for Earth trip
  Michael Cooney
  Nov 23 2009

  Heading into their second week of space travel the crew of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis have a lot on their schedule. Today two of the astronauts will venture out for the mission’s third and ...

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• Intel and Sprout launch a consumer-powered Facebook promotion
  Dean Takahashi
  Nov 23 2009

  Facebook reaches so many people now that big brands are trying to figure out how to reach its audience. Intel is using social media firm Sprout to launch a different kind of marketing campaign ...

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• Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 23 2009

  Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two companies said on Monday. Ciena emerged victorious ...

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• Information security and business strategy Part 1
  M. E. Kabay
  Nov 23 2009

  I've known David Greer for over 25 years and have always enjoyed his intelligence, good humor and creativity. And Stephen Northcutt is so widely published, cited and respected in our field that I ...

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• Wide Area Ethernet – Key steps in the evolution
  , Jim Metzler Steve Taylor
  Nov 23 2009

  For the history of the telecommunications industry, there have been some schisms within the networking organization. One of the most fundamental was always between the "WAN" folks and the "LAN" ...

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• Recap of a week in storage
  Deni Connor
  Nov 23 2009

  Last week was a little slow in the storage world, except for news from EMC, Nexsan, Isilon, HP and others. Here's a recap of what happened last week in storage. EMC announced enhancements to EMC ...

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