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Moving to the virtual layer (and taking advantage of the cloud)

With infrastructure services like Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and VMware making it easy to take advantage of the flexibility, portability, and reduced costs of cloud computing, it seems obvious to jump on the cloud bandwagon for new...

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Microsoft Shows Off Visual Studio 2010 (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Bob Muglia, president of server and tools, talked about how applications are evolving in the cloud era, and showed off some new and upcoming features for Azure and...

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Bing Gains Market Share -- At Yahoo's Expense

By Jennifer LeClaire The latest search-engine rankings from comScore show that Google continues to grow, but Microsoft's Bing is gaining momentum. Bing's market share is up largely at Yahoo's expense. Google earned 65.4 percent...

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YouTube Direct Lets Citizens Become Journalists

By Jennifer LeClaire YouTube has launched YouTube Direct to let citizens upload videos that can be used by media organizations. News organizations are already using YouTube Direct, but making citizens into journalists means...

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Computer Programmers Accused of Aiding Madoff Scam

The programs allowed Madoff to generate account statements for thousands of clients "that purported to confirm the purchases of securities that, in fact, had not been purchased," the complaint said. Two former employees for...

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Review: New BlackBerry Storm Improves on Original

By Rachel Metz If you're an application junkie, RIM's BlackBerry App World may not satiate your appetite. The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use. Though...

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Rumors of Steep Mac Discounts Seen as Unlikely

Apple rumors are always the most popular during the holiday season. With Black Friday coming next week, the rumor mill is operating at top speed hinting that Apple is about to offer super-steep discounts on iPods and Macs (but...

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Obama Pushes Freedoms, Open Internet in China

Politely but firmly pressing for greater freedoms on China's own turf, President Barack Obama spoke against censorship Monday, saying tough criticisms of political leaders should be allowed and the free flow of information on...

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Adobe Releases Betas of AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.2

By Barry Levine Adobe Systems has released beta versions of AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1. While AIR 2 allows more feature-rich applications, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release under Adobe's Open Screen Project for a wide...

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Egypt To Apply for First Arabic Domain Name

Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations....

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