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      <title>IBM Launches Major Hardware Upgrade</title>
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      <description>Although IBM's focus has increasingly shifted from hardware to software and services, advanced servers are still a key aspect of its competition with HP, Sun, and now Cisco.</description>
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      <title>Microsoft to Help Scientists With Free Azure Use</title>
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      <description>National Science Foundation to oversee project grants.</description>
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      <title>10 Worst Cybersecurity Snafus of 2009</title>
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      <description>Hackers, breaches, and malware on the loose. In the year 2009, a stupendous amount of personal data was stolen due to cybersecurity problems.</description>
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      <title>What Do the iPad and Windows Azure Have in Common?</title>
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      <description>Both tech products, though wildly different in scope and intent, are offering a heaping helping of a previously successful offering. Will they succeed?</description>
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      <title>Microsoft: Windows 7 Not Harming Batteries</title>
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      <description>The warnings issued by Windows 7 about failing batteries are correct, and are not causing batteries to reach this state, a Microsoft executive states.</description>
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      <title>Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks</title>
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      <description>Anjal, a light interface for GNOME mail reader Evolution, demonstrates how netbooks are affecting open source software.</description>
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      <title>Oracle's New Foes: NEC and Netezza</title>
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      <description>Netezza, a small database computer maker, is partnering with Japan's NEC to challenge Oracle in the market for database computers.</description>
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      <title>Google Plans Gmail Upgrade</title>
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      <description>Google plans a new feature on the Gmail screen that will offer a stream of updates from people the user chooses to connect with.</description>
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      <title>Office Softphone Options: Migrating to VoIP</title>
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      <description>Skype, Google Voice, Vonage and other providers all offer options to enable you to leave your landline behind.</description>
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      <title>IBM Lands Air Force Cloud Computing Contract</title>
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      <description>Ten-month project will feature advanced cyber security and analytics applications as Big Blue helps build a secure cloud-computing infrastructure for the Air Force.</description>
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      <title>Chinese Hacker Training Web Site Shut Down</title>
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      <description>Dubbed the the &quot;Black Hawk Safety Net,&quot; a Chinese newspaper reported that the site taught hacking techniques in exchange for a fee.</description>
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      <title>Mozilla Dropping Firefox Support for Mac OS X 10.4</title>
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      <description>Four years after the 10.4 release, Mozilla wants to remove it from its list of supported operating systems. Not everyone agrees.</description>
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      <title>Sour Opinion on iPad</title>
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      <description>With the pre-announcement hype subsiding, people are far from enthusiastic about the iPad, if an online survey is to be believed.</description>
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      <title>Tips on Buying Intel Servers</title>
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      <description>A discussion and side-by-side feature comparison of Intel's server offerings, spotlighting five offerings.</description>
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      <title>Using the Cloud to Guard Against Vendor Lock-In</title>
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      <description>In the wake of current tech mergers, big IT vendors are offering complete infrastructure solutions. Yet customers can retain their flexibility by looking to the cloud.</description>
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      <title>Keeping Mobile Cloud Data Secure</title>
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      <description>With enterprise cloud applications now residing on the mobile phones of many employees, the security challenges are raised exponentially. How can your company stay safe?</description>
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      <title>Why You'll Use a Tablet. Yes YOU!</title>
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      <description>Touch tablets will come out optimized for operating systems ranging from closed (iPhone OS) to open (Linux) and everything in between. Take your pick.</description>
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      <title>Tech Comics: &quot;Development Kick-Off Meeting&quot;</title>
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      <description>The initial meeting for development projects always have such high hopes.</description>
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      <title>Red Hat Exchange: Do Open Source App Stores Work?</title>
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      <description>In 2007, Red Hat launched the Red Hat Exchange (RHX), partly in response to Novell's Market Start program. Now neither program is still operating.</description>
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      <title>Wireless Network Security: 7 Simple Tips</title>
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      <description>This ubiquity of wireless networks means that there may be myriad potential network intruders lurking within range of your office WLAN.</description>
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