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Is the Android truly open source?

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Is the Android truly open source?
When is open source not really open source? When it's an Android phone. OK, before everyone jumps all over me and screams, "Android is built on Linux!" and "It's more open than the iPhone!" let me say this: Yes, it is built on an open-source platform and it is, indeed, more open than the iPhone. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs
IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenges. Read now.

WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems

Tolly Group Performance Report
Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More!

Love's Labor Lost (or Stolen)
The Apple-Gizmodo story, as told by Shakespeare. Read More


WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks

Geolocation and Application Delivery
Both business and technical stakeholders will find value and a broad range of uses for the highly accurate data available from a trusted third-party geolocation provider, especially when the data is integrated into a Unified Application and Data Delivery platform. This Whitepaper has all the details. Read More!

Facebook privacy changes - where's the outrage?
Facebook recently announced some changes to the way it handles your private data, and from all of the articles on the subject, you would think its users would be leaving in droves. But they're not. Read More


WEBCAST: Meraki

Cloud-Managed WiFi
Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here.

Cisco wants to see your network
Although not officially a contest, Cisco's Linksys division this week launched a "Show Us Yours" challenge on Facebook. The company is asking people to post photos of their network setups via the Linksys Facebook page, and tag themselves in the photo. Read More

Dear Apple: Please make 'magical' disappear from iPad pitches
From today's press release touting the fact that Apple has sold a pant-load of iPads: "One million iPads in 28 days-that's less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Demand continues to exceed supply and we're working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers." Read More

IE9 sure is faster, but users have mixed reactions
What more could be said about the new preview of IE9 released today? Apparently a lot. Read More



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