Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Sprint to fight AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile

Android Apps: 9 Best, Free Social Networking Choices | Ensuring mistrust -- companies not coming clean on problems

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Sprint to fight AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile
Sprint Nextel has vowed to fight AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, calling the deal a bid to create a new telecommunications duopoly. Read More


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Android Apps: 9 Best, Free Social Networking Choices
Share, save and savor all things social with these nine free Google Android apps, hand-picked by CIO.com's mobile maestro, Al Sacco. Read More

Ensuring mistrust -- companies not coming clean on problems
It has been quite a month for organizations mishandling bad situations. In all of these cases, delays in reporting the problem made it worse, and in one case the decision to not be forthcoming about the actual risk may cost a company most of its customers. Read More

UPDATE: EBay to buy GSI Commerce for $2.4B
EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and services are expected to boost eBay's online marketplace and PayPal e-payment businesses. Read More


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Server Virtualization: Branching Out of the Data Center
A typical lean branch office has a significantly different server infrastructure than a data center, but despite the differences, multisite organizations have much to gain by deploying server virtualization in their branch offices. Read More

No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying
An interesting discussion started on tor-talk about Iran cracking down on "web dissident technology" before Cryptome posted, "TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker." Read More

Firefox 4 races out the gate, doubles share in 6 days
Mozilla's Firefox 4's browser usage share grew over two-and-a-half times in the six days since its March 22 launch, a Web analytics company said today. Read More

New service puts Amex card on your iPhone or Android device
American Express now allows users to make online payments on iOS- and Android-based devices. Read More


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Advanced ADCs Take Over Where Load Balancers Leave Off
Server load balancers offer fairly basic capabilities. This white paper details the advanced content switching, application acceleration and VMware integration capabilities that have data centers using Equalizer Application Delivery Controllers to take over where server load balancers left off. Read More

Android is a cool example of benefits and challenges of developing with open source
As discussed in my last posting, Android is a particularly visible and broadly used project, and for that reason is drawing a fair amount of legal attention. There are aspects of the project that demonstrate the two-edged sword nature of open source: Developing with open source components provides a huge productivity gain, but companies need to be smart about it. Read More

Cisco among most acquisitive in 2010
M&A activity in IT made a strong recovery in 2010, with more 1,900 deals totaling over $200 billion, according to market research firm IDC. Read More

Video: Nintendo 3DS offers 3D gameplay without glasses
Nintendo's portable glasses free 3D game console, the Nintendo 3DS went on sale in the US this weekend and droves of gamers braved the midnight cold for a launch event in New York City. Read More



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Hot technology at the annual CTIA wireless show
CTIA Wireless offers a look at the evolving mobile landscape, from handsets and apps to core network systems. Here's a few of the things that are hot at the show in Orlando.

First look at Firefox 4
Firefox 4 has finally arrived, after months of delays and after rival Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 10 already shipped. The browser gets a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync. Were they worth the wait? Let's take a look.

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