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Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social applications that allow for messaging and collaboration in the workplace, should not be banned, argue two Gartner analysts. Though not quite ready for use in enterprise applications, Facebook, Twitter and the others can prove valuable in helping colleagues and customers connect, so long as businesses employ a trust model.
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Virtualization leader VMware is joining the Linux Foundation, which could prove to be a boon to both the virtualization and open-source hypervisor communities. VMware has had its share of problems with the open-source community, including charges that it violated open-source code standards. But VMware is now giving away its ESXi hypervisor for free and some believe VMware could open-source the hypervisor, despite statements to the contrary from VMware executives.
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Google Gmail and Google Apps messaging and collaboration services in the cloud suffered an outage of nearly 15 hours. Google Gmail and Google Apps users spent their time away from the messaging and collaboration platforms flogging the company on the Google Apps discussion group. Can Microsoft and other SAAS newcomers take advantage of these Google Gmail and Google Apps outages?
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Oil prices near $145 a barrel and high electricity bills mean electronics makers such as LG that develop green, energy-efficient products such as mobile devices, desktops and notebooks, and market them effectively to customers may get an edge in a gloomy global economy, firms say.
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ThinkPad maker Lenovo posted a 65 percent increase in first-quarter profits, but that was Lenovo's slowest growth in a year. Lenovo is dealing with not only a sluggish U.S. economy but also competition from HP, Dell and Acer.
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Xandros says it will move the Freespire Linux distribution that it acquired from Linspire to Debian's forthcoming Lenny release.
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The Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment project has designed a new version of GNOME that it says is compatible with the latest netbooks as well as with older computers.
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In order to develop its ATI graphics, AMD is backing both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's DirectX 11 APIs. The move means that AMD is looking for a way to differentiate its graphics from the Intel Larrabee initiative and Nvidia's CUDA programming language for its general-purpose GPUs.
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Intel's Larrabee processor is Intel's first multicore processor and first stand-alone graphics card. Larrabee is also a swipe at graphics chip makers Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, whose powerful graphics chips are starting to look like a threat to Silicon Valley's king of silicon chips. Intel Larrabee will have numerous x86 processor cores (Intel won't reveal how many processor cores) and support for OpenGL and DirectX, allowing it to run existing games and software requiring high-end graphics.
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Numonyx and Hynix, which both make NAND flash memory, sign a five-year joint development agreement to develop memory and storage technology for a range of mobile devices, such as cell phones, as well as develop new technology for solid state drives (SSDs). Intel spun off Numonyx earlier this year.
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Google launches Insights for Search, a Web analytics tool designed to keep advertisers connecting with customers and enterprises online. Such tools are also what keeps Google ahead of Yahoo, Microsoft and the rest of the search advertising pack.
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The ClearCube Virtual Desktop Infrastructure suite is expanding to include a new blade chassis, additional thin-client PCs, support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor and an update to its Sentral management software. In building out its virtualization offerings, ClearCube is competing against the likes of HP and IBM when it comes to PC blades.
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Google releases its new Google Search Appliance, a box that now indexes 10 million documents as a way to compete with Microsoft's Fast search assets, as well as Vivisimo, Endeca, Autonomy and other players in the enterprise search market. Google also looks to extend its market lead with new metadata biasing tools, Google alerts, advanced search analytics and Kerberos support.
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The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software.
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Delta plans to offer complete wireless Internet service, including access to corporate and personal e-mail accounts, SMS texting and instant messaging. Delta officials say the Wi-Fi service, supplied by Aircell, will work with laptops, smart phones and other PDAs.
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External battery options now charge handhelds and USB accessories, in
addition to notebook PCs.
Toshiba's SSD-equipped Portege R500 packs solid performance into a slim 1.72-pound chassis without skimping on peripheral expansion options.
Lenovo's leading-edge ThinkPad X300 packs power-savings into a petite and pricey three-pound chassis.
The sub-$1,000 LifeBook S7211 could work well for mainstream corporate computing, but only with added RAM.
Review: The Satellite Pro A210 might not be well-suited for mobile workstation or gaming roles, but this sub-$1000 notebook has what it takes to serve well for mainstream business computing uses.
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