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How to Get the Most Out of Virtualization
Check out this white paper to learn more about virtualization and how you can get the most out of it. Send your computing into a new arena with the right dose of virtualization.
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Microsoft's ServiceOS: A potential piece of Microsoft's cloud play, post-Windows 8
Last summer, Microsoft researchers were describing their ServiceOS project as a "multi-principal OS-based browser" designed to provide control of web applications and devices. This year, the...
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Hakia adds PubMed, enhances medical search
In April this year, New York-based Hakia announced an enhancement to their beta web search that focussed upon providing timely and accurate health information to consumers; "For the first time,...
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Silicon chips for optical quantum computing
UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the...
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BlackBerry Patent app describes "Ergonomic Cursor Controller"
A newly published BlackBerry Patent application entitled Ergonomic Navigation Cursor Controller For a Handheld Mobile Communication Device specifies technology for a "navigation button"...
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BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issues
A new BlackBerry patent application published just yesterday would improve the ability of BlackBerry devices to read voltage levels. The patent app is entitled System and Method for Managing...
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BlackBerry Patent app proposes Low memory manager for "graceful shutdown"
When one of our devices crashes or shuts down because of memory issues, one of the last words we would ever use to describe the circumstances is "graceful." Yes, but graceful is indeed part of...
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Ways to improve device backlighting described in new BlackBerry patent app
Technology described in a newly published BlackBerry Patent application would improve the quality of BlackBerry device backlighting by using "hot spot filters" to better managing overly "bright...
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BlackBerry Patent app describes and shows "angular keyboard"
A new BlackBerry Patent application just posted this morning describes designs for an "angular (BlackBerry) keyboard". 20070287391 is the number. The title of this aspiring Patent is Angular...
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EXCLUSIVE: Here's the Patent AT&T is suing Vonage over
I've dug up the U.S. Patent held by AT&T that's at the heart of their just-filed Patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage. The Patent # 6,487,200, is entitled Packet phone system. Here's...
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Microsoft Patent app describes multimedia note-taking for Windows Mobile devices
In a newly published Microsoft Patent application entitled User experience for mobile multimedia notetaking, a way is described that would enable users who are watching video on a Windows...
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BlackBerry Patent app would automate switching between Speaker and Handset mode
A BlackBerry Patent application just published this morning describes technology that would enable switching from handset mode to speaker mode without pushing a button on a BlackBerry device....
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Learning the right lessons from the Amazon cloud outage
If we place the Amazon crash into its proper context, we are in a better position to learn the right lessons from this crisis, rather than reacting out of fear to an event taken out of that context.
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Cloud brokering: Building a cloud of clouds
The ability to select among several public clouds is only one benefit of cloud brokering. It also supports the ability for an organization to move application instances or data between private and...
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Microsoft's ServiceOS: A potential piece of Microsoft's cloud play, post-Windows 8
Last summer, Microsoft researchers were describing their ServiceOS project as a "multi-principal OS-based browser" designed to provide control of web applications and devices. This year, the...
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Microsoft 'Drawbridge' project seeks ways to streamline and better secure Windows
Microsoft researchers have built a "library" operating system (OS) codenamed Drawbridge, and have demonstrated working prototypes of Windows 7, Windows 8 and various Microsoft applications running...
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Photos: Mars orbiter's abstract impressions
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter dispatches more than 1,500 new high-resolution close-ups of the Red Planet, though many of the images are really studies in blue.
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Why C wins: the cold realities of abstraction
The sad reality underlying many of the handy abstractions we rely on every day is that they only work most of the time - and what that means is that the abstractions we choose to use define limits...
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Windows Azure defined
Windows Azure is a Microsoft hosting framework that makes it easy to scale from 10 users to 10 million users with no additional effort. Though it's a good idea, I do think they should consider...
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Hakia adds PubMed, enhances medical search
In April this year, New York-based Hakia announced an enhancement to their beta web search that focussed upon providing timely and accurate health information to consumers; "For the first time,...
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Silicon chips for optical quantum computing
UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the...
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