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Management tools take center stage at VMworld

VMware unveils three management tools for a virtualized enterprise

Blu-ray Disc faces fight against downloads

Victory for Blu-ray Disc over HD DVD may be short-lived if consumers choose to download high-definition content from the Internet

SOA may be misleading moniker

Microsoft to measure ‘engagement’ with online ads

Microsoft claims its Engagement ROI reporting tool measures the impact of online ad campaigns rather than merely counting clicks

Startup bridges memory capacity gap

Metaram technology allows users to quadruple memory without adding new hardware

Fujitsu latest to show 500GB laptop drive

Fujitsu's three-platter design won't fit into the drive bay on many laptops, so its availability doesn't mean an instant capacity upgrade will be possible for all laptop users

InfoWorld’s Vista deployment guide

Researchers dream up mobile chameleon device

Nokia researchers reveal their vision for 'morphing' mobile devices, which could come in the future through nanotechnology developments

Adobe melds desktop, Web apps with AIR

Gartner: HP was the biggest chip buyer in 2007

Hewlett-Packard bought $15 billion worth of semiconductors in 2007

Product review: Windows Server 2008 is upgrade IT can’t refuse

MS open APIs and file formats a mixed blessing

Microsoft kills off HD DVD drive for Xbox 360

Microsoft hasn't said whether it will offer a Blu-ray Disc drive for the Xbox 360

Microsoft and SAP bring their Duet to health care

Microsoft is not the only vendor with an eye on health care software: rival Google is already making moves with an online medical record service

YouTube blames Pakistani ISP for global site outage

Pakistani authorities ordered ISPs there to block YouTube's site, which the company says led to erroneous routing information being introduced

SAP ships ‘enhancements’ for ERP

SAP's third ERP enhancement package focuses on core functionality, such as financials and procurement, and functionality aimed at verticals like retail and manufacturing

Is Microsoft turning over a new leaf?

This time, the company's talk of increased openness has some substance behind it, with APIs for the latest versions of popular apps for the first time

Adobe melds desktop, Web apps with AIR

Early adopters have created a wide variety of data-oriented apps

Vista SP1’s snafu-filled saga

This Valentine’s month hasn’t been kind to Vista SP1. Early users aren’t too smitten, either

On the demise of Xserve RAID

Leap year birthday bug fix offered

Developers: OpenSocial OK, but needs tuning

Developers who have been testing Google's OpenSocial APIs say they are on the right track but not quite ready for release yet

Microsoft letter hopeful, vague on Yahoo deal

Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, sent a letter to employees that expressed hope that Yahoo would be acquired but was thin on details

Google: OpenSocial party nearing start

In an interview, Google Engineering Director, David Glazer talks about OpenSocial's progress and the goals of the initiative

Virtualizing the whole shebang

Some open sourcers keeping open mind about Microsoft pledges

Community response to Microsoft's release of 300,000 pages of documentation for Windows apps ranges from cautious praise to outright scorn

Microsoft readies Silverlight 2 beta

Company official provides the most details yet for the plug-in technology, the beta of which is scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year

US, EU tackle counterfeiting with raids

Operation Infrastructure nabs 360,000 counterfeit items, mostly computer networking hardware and integrated circuits, in November and December

Microsoft: Here’s how to stop Vista update’s endless reboot

Microsoft has endorsed several workarounds to help users regain control of PCs affected by the rebooting issue a recent Windows Vista update caused

Motorola finds new counter for shrinking pile of beans

Paul Liska, the latest addition to Motorola's new management team, will take over as executive vice president and CFO

Microsoft accidentally leaks SP1

A build of Windows Vista SP1, which is not due to be released until mid-March, was accidentally posted to Windows Update and made widely available on Thursday

Social networking and the long con

Telecom industry poised for strong growth

Study finds that increasing demand for broadband should drive strong growth in the telecommunications industry, despite fears of an economic downturn in the U.S.

Daily news for Friday, Feb. 22, 2008

Upping the virtualization ante

Cringely’s geek week in review

Microsoft plans app dev boosts

InfoWorld News Quiz: The week in tech

Why security will only get worse

Can XP users really switch to Linux or Mac?

AMD goes open source with performance library

AMD's open-source move will help developers build multithreaded applications for x86 machines

Microsoft doesn’t give DBAs much consideration with Katmai

Europe makes moves toward Internet censorship

Privacy advocates worry that filtering Internet sites related to piracy, terrorism, and child pornography will have serious effects on the freedom to communicate

EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit

EMC boosts its cloud computing strategy with purchase of a company whose software and services will help users keep track of their personal data

Hacking, the book

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17 arrested in Canadian hacking bust

Police in Quebec broke up a hacking ring that was responsible for a botnet ring that racked up $44.3 million in damages

Open APIs may help Microsoft repair reputation

Microsoft's move to open up its APIs could give the company an image boost as well as help it compete more effectively against Google

Experts hammer Web 2.0 security

Security experts fear that social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn provide both a delivery vehicle for malware and the info to create targeted attacks

Study: More U.S. broadband has $134 billion economic impact

A study by Connected Nation says that just a 7 percent increase in U.S. broadband adoption could create as many as 2.4 million jobs and add $134 billion to the economy