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Daily news beat for June 30, 2008

Load balancers and app accelerators

Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking

Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. InfoWorld believes such an expensive, time-consuming shift with problematic benefits should not be forced on

What others say: Articles and podcasts on the “Save XP” campaign

The latest news, commentary, audio, and video about the "Save XP" campaign from other sites.

Mule offers enterprise SOA governance

Galaxy platform released, featuring registry/repository

Is your PC ready for Windows 7?

Software group to promote Macs in the enterprise

Enterprise Desktop Alliance wants to show IT how easy it is to use Windows tools on a Mac

Unwrapping HTC’s Touch Diamond smartphone with 3G

Hands on with HTC's handset, which sports a sleek design with a 2.8-inch touchscreen on one side and a back contoured like the shape of its namesake, diamond

Hands on with Elitegroup’s G10IL mini-laptop

3G capabilities set ECS' mini-laptop apart from rivals such as MSI's Wind laptop and Asustek's Eee PC

Firefox 3.0 wins memory battle

Independent tester says Mozilla's browser uses memory much more efficiently than rivals IE, Opera, Flock, and Safari on Windows

MSI Wind mini-desktop with Intel’s Atom to debut in July

MSI is quick to follow rival Asustek into the desktop segment with a business version of a mini-desktop

Gates says Yahoo deal ‘not likely’

Gates' comments in an interview with Tom Brokaw signal that such talks, if they existed, are now over

The last chance to save Windows XP

Microsoft has stubbornly stuck to its decision to stop selling XP after today. It's a wrong decision, which InfoWorld hopes your voice can still change at this very last minute.

NEC to acquire NetCracker for $300 million

Acquisition will help NEC expand its offerings to providers of Internet, broadband network, and large-business services

Top 10: Bill Gates retires, Symbian goes open source

This week's roundup of the top tech news stories includes Bill Gates' retirement, Hyper-V's release, Google's Android issue, why the iPhone 3G is so cheap, and more

Sun sponsors social apps platform

The Zembly project, a collaborative environment for building and hosting social apps, is in beta stage

IDC: Oracle maintains lead in database market

IBM and Microsoft trail far behind, but top three all see big jumps in revenue, thanks to weak U.S. dollar

Accenture report upholds EPA datacenter findings

EPA report said datacenters accounted for 1.5 percent of electricity consumed in U.S. in 2006, and amount to double over five years based on those trends

Datacenters explore novel ways to cut energy use

Air-flow management and aisle containment systems among ideas offered by datacenter operators trying to tackle rising energy consumption costs at their facilities

Windows XP deadline matters little to business customers

Monday marks the cutoff date for selling Windows XP, but businesses have several workarounds they can use in order to get or continue using the OS

Apache looks to bring fun back to Java

Sling project offers an open-source Web framework that provides a platform to manage and upgrade content

Sun announces ‘unlimited’ GlassFish-MySQL bundle

Sun's new pricing structure will offer unlimited deployments of MySQL and Glassfish for a flat annual fee

SOA consolidation continues

Progress makes another SOA buy

Progress Software follows up its purchase of Iona by acquiring Mindreef for its SOA testing tools

Laptop use helps spur adoption of 802.11n

Analysts are expecting the migration of enterprise Wi-Fi products to the 802.11n wireless networking standard to take off rapidly

Daily news beat for June 27, 2008

Senate delays vote on surveillance bill until July

Surveillance bill would likely result in the dismissal of dozens of lawsuits against telecom carriers that participated in the NSA spying program

Nirvanix puts NAS in the cloud

Network storage developer serves up its storage-as-a-service offering as if it were a NAS box, making CloudNAS more resilient, cheaper, and quicker to deploy

Oracle: Damages in SAP suit could be at least $1 billion

SAP has said 'some inappropriate downloads' were made, but dismissed Oracle's 'wild speculation' about the amount of its damages

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Does Yahoo reorg signal cloud computing move?

Announcement of a cloud computing and data infrastructure group has some wondering if Yahoo plans to enter the market for hosted IT services like Google and Amazon

Microsoft to buy mobile software maker MobiComp

Microsoft plans to use MobiComp technology to build new mobile data protection and sharing services as well as software for mobile phones, PCs, and the Internet

Dell delivers eco-friendly SAS server for SMBs

Genuitec sets IBM, Java tools

Assistance with Eclipse Ganymede also offered as Genuitec upgrades its IDEs

Survey: 8 in 10 businesses now using Macs

Apple has made significant inroads with corporate users as the percentage of businesses using Macs has doubled in the past two years

New top-level domains expected in 2009

ICANN expects to start receiving applications for generic top-level domains in spring 2009 and approving them in 90 to 120 days, thus allowing for sale by fourth quarter

Vista once again

Spigit filters Enterprise 2.0 feedback

Analytical tools can gauge the quality of content contributed to corporate collaboration platforms

Microsoft Hyper-V now available

Microsoft's virtualization technology is officially available, slightly ahead of the latest schedule

ICANN opens way for new top-level domains

Board's vote could allow the creation of more than 70 million new gTLDs and open the way for big corporations to run their own domains

Daily news beat for June 26, 2008

SAP to pay $83.3 million to settle i2 patent suit

Maker of supply chain management software claimed SAP infringed on a number of its patents

Mobile Linux groups join forces

LiPS Forum's activities will be folded into the LiMo Foundation starting in July, reducing fragmentation in the mobile Linux market

SAP is stuck in the last century

Antispam group outlines ways to block spam from botnets

MAAWG recommends new best practices for ISPs to stop increasing volumes of spam

Does IcedTea mark Java’s golden age?

Panasonic launches Atom-based Toughbook mini laptop

Toughbook line of rugged computers aims to keep up with the increasingly mobile demands of corporate users, combining the portability of a handheld and the power of a PC

Dell launches rainbow of Studio laptops

Desktop-replacement Studio 15 and Studio 17 laptops will be available in seven colors

Microsoft sees portable datacenters everywhere

Microsoft is radically rethinking its datacenters as it tries to add more computing capacity in a way that is cost effective and power efficient