Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Kinect Creates Privacy Temptations for Microsoft; Cloud, Phone 7 on tap at Microsoft PDC10

Cloud, Phone 7 on tap at Microsoft PDC10 | Google's Android Market hits 100,000 apps

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Kinect Creates Privacy Temptations for Microsoft
Ms. Smith: Microsoft's new Kinect gesture-based game controller is about to invade living rooms across the world, but a privacy group is concerned about long term facial and voice recognition privacy issues. Read More


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Improve Your Risk Profile
Gateway Health Plan realized the need to make major changes in its storage environment to support business growth and customer demands. The primary objective was to improve the reliability of its production database environment to support customers during disasters. Read now!

Cloud, Phone 7 on tap at Microsoft PDC10
Robert Mullins: Microsoft will be hosting its annual Professional Developers Conference at Redmond Oct. 27-29 at which it will preach cloud computing and Windows Phone 7. Read More

Google's Android Market hits 100,000 apps
Jon Brodkin: Android still trails iPhone store's 250,000 apps but just surpassed the 100,000 applications mark. Read More

Phone 7 fans can probably leave their lawn chairs at home
Robert Mullins: AT&T understands it's unlikely to have lines at its stores November 8 for the launch of smartphones running Windows Phone 7. Read More


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Unified Windows Storage Consolidation
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications. Read More!

Steve Ballmer says HTML 5 is the future
Julie Bort: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses the near death of Silverlight in favor of HTML 5, and his hopes for Windows Phone 7 and the cloud in this interview at Gartner's IT Symposium. Read More

Privacy Report Card: State Secrets Earn Obama a Grade of "D" in Civil Liberties
Ms. Smith: It's sad how our right to privacy seems to be decreasing while the government's right to keep secrets seems to be growing. Privacy watchdog EPIC released the 2010 Privacy Report Card, giving the Obama Administration a "D" grade. Read More

Digital Cloning: Rise of the Cylons?
Ms. Smith: Somewhere between epically cool and downright creepy, you can create a digital clone that looks like you, talks like you, sounds like you and takes on your personality. Read More


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Consolidate and Virtualize Your Windows Environment
Joint NetApp-VMware whitepaper on Windows consolidation. This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution. Read More!

Microsoft announces new cloud version of MS Office 2010
Julie Bort: Microsoft announced yet another cloud offering for office apps, Office 365, the next evolution of Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS). Read More

Java exploits have skyrocketed, Microsoft researcher says
Microsoft Subnet: The number of attacks on Java in 3Q 2010 dwarfed those made on Adobe PDF. Read More

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