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Five storage strategies that will save you money

Forrester report provides a road map for smart storage purchasing strategies and maximizing the resources you already have

WSO2 adds Google Gadgets to mashup server

Version 1.5 of open source product offered

InfoWorld adds Twitter to its mobile options

News and alerts service keeps readers up to date on key stories when they are on the go

Intel Atom for netbooks costs 52 percent more than desktop version

Intel's Atom microprocessor for mini-laptops has proven to be hugely popular

Top 10: Intel antitrust redux, AMD change, network woes

This week's roundup of the top tech news stories includes Intel's EC woes, AMD's new CEO, San Francisco's network issues, the ongoing MS-Yahoo saga, and more

AMD takes on Intel with its own low-power chip

The chip, code-named Bobcat, is designed for low-cost laptops and mobile devices and will compete with Intel's Atom processor

Hold off on WiMax investments, Gartner cautions

Analysts say businesses should wait until WiMax is more widely deployed and there are more dual-mode handsets

Samsung, Sun jointly develop NAND flash memory chip

The 8GB single-level cell NAND flash memory chip developed by Samsung and Sun should have a significantly longer lifespan than current flash memory

RIM fixes critical BlackBerry Enterprise Server bug

Research in Motion patched a critical bug in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server that could have allowed hackers to break into company networks

Microsoft feeds cash to Online Services Business

Microsoft is trying to bolster its Online Services Business unit to better compete with Google; a successful acquisition of Yahoo would feed into the strategy

Of Apple, Psystar users, and copyright

Google to pay $140M for Russian contextual ad firm

Acquisition of Zao Begun will help Google expand its services to advertisers and Web-site publishers outside the United States

The “Save XP” petition count update

Daily news beat for July 18, 2008

Major investor to back Yahoo board

Investment firm Legg Mason, which holds 4.4 percent of Yahoo's stock, will back company's slate of candidates in a stockholders meeting Aug. 1

Analyst firm advises businesses to delay 3G iPhone purchases

Enderle Group says potential flaws in Apple's new smartphone are unlikely to surface for several weeks

Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009

CIOs plan sharp reductions in contract staff, professional services, and hardware — and almost no investment in cloud computing

Can obscurity make cryptography better?

InfoWorld News Quiz

New worm transcodes MP3s to try to infect PCs

Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks are at risk from new malware that inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF media files

Microsoft tops $60 billion in annual revenue

Microsoft attributes its 25 percent financial gains to increased demand for Office, server software, Xbox games and consoles, and even Vista

Managing storage from your cell phone

Aptare adds capacity management to its Web platform

Microsoft adds workflow to cloud-based SOA platform

BizTalk Services project still is in development as the R12 Community Technology Preview is unveiled

Update: AMD appoints new CEO as losses continue

AMD has replaced Hector Ruiz with Dirk Meyer as its CEO, effective immediately

Sprint withdraws from group that endorses LTE

Sprint had been a founding member of NGMN, but the group has changed its technology-neutral stance and endorsed LTE, while Sprint backs WiMax

Citrix may change the conversation on virtualization

Citrix's Project Kensho is a set of applications designed to make virtual applications run effectively on any hypervisor or even none at all

AOL a less challenging buy than Yahoo for Microsoft

AOL's online finance, shopping, and entertainment destinations, as well as popular IM and e-mail services, similar to Yahoo's –minus the bad blood

Update: IT administrator pleads not guilty to network tampering

Terry Childs is accused of setting up an unauthorized access system and holding much of the city of San Francisco's computer network hostage

The criminal digital divide

SCO loses another round in Unix fight

Judge orders SCO to pay Novell $2.55M for taking Unix licensing revenue from Sun that it wasn't entitled to collect

Daily news beat for July 17, 2008

Yahoo letter to shareholders slams Microsoft, Icahn

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock reiterate in their letter their willingness to sell the entire company to Microsoft for no less than $33 a share

Google is starting to look a lot like Microsoft

Test Center preview: Microsoft’s Katmai

Is the desktop PC making a comeback?

Researchers say growing economic uncertainty may have helped desktop PC shipments gain traction among professional users in the U.S.

Apple now third largest PC vendor in the U.S.

According to a Gartner survey, Apple has toppled Acer after recording a 38.1 percent growth rate in U.S. PC shipments

Centrino 2 laptops with WiMax will be limited this year

Intel will ship its Echo Peak wireless module later this year, but only three U.S. cities will be offering 2.5GHz WiMax services

Tough times ahead for PC makers

Analysts say the weak economy means tough times and possibly a wave of consolidation for PC makers

Google tweaks Gmail to stop auto-adding contacts

Changes to Gmail give users more control over their contacts list, helping combat address book clutter

Update: Google offers Android updates only to contest winners

An Android advocate let slip that Google is supplying Android SDK updates only to a select group of developers, prompting some others to switch their focus to the iPhone

Microsoft lets more people use Live Mesh

Microsoft's Live Mesh, which lets people share and synch files and programs among various computers, had previously been an invitation-only service

iPhone 3G: a mobile pro’s unboxing

An iPhone 3G falls into the hands of an enterprise user and mobile developer. Here's the transcript of the first day's activities.

Five Web 2.0 dev lessons for enterprise IT

Application development 2.0 emphasizes quick, incremental updates, along with heavy user involvement, and can be beneficial for some enterprises

Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL

Defendant and partner sent around 250,000 spam messages to more than 1.2 million e-mail addresses belonging to AOL subscribers

Data can leak from partially encrypted disks

Apps like Microsoft Word and Google Desktop, which store data on unencrypted sections of the hard drive, can spill out information, even with encrypted files

Business Objects users angry over SAP support transition

SAP acknowledges some problems have occurred and said it's working to solve the issues and that phone support is available for all customers

Report: Microsoft in talks for a deal with AOL

Having been spurned by Yahoo, Microsoft is meeting with AOL to talk about the two companies combining

The Three Stooges of tech

Daily news beat for July 16, 2008

Lawmakers question another ISP about NebuAd service

Legislators ask Kansas-based Embarq if it notified customers prior to testing controversial ad service