Microsoft, Google and Twitter debate whether HTML5 is "Holy Grail"
Is HTML5 the Holy Grail for building next-generation Web applications?
Stories by Jon Brodkin
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Research tackles powering the virtual data center
Data center managers are well versed in distributing power efficiently to physical servers. But the proliferation of virtualization, with multiple virtual machines and applications running on a single piece of hardware, has made this task a lot more complicated.
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The data center needs an operating system?
Personal computers have operating systems. Even phones have operating systems. So why doesn't the data center have one?
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Research tackles powering the virtual data center
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">Data center</a> managers are well versed in distributing power efficiently to physical servers. But the proliferation of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, with multiple virtual machines and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> running on a single piece of hardware, has made this task a lot more complicated.
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Who needs a cloud? Microsoft sold 31 million copies of Office 2010
Microsoft is taking aim at some unspecified critics on the one-year anniversary of Office 2010, saying the product has sold a copy every second despite the rise of Google Apps and other cloud-based alternatives.
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Want to stop cybercrime? Follow the money
Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.
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Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems
A host of new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a>.
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Chrome nearly replaced Firefox in Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth says
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth is a big fan of Google Chrome, and says the browser could replace the standard Firefox in future versions of Ubuntu Linux.
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As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast
Apple's iPad and other tablets are causing consumers to delay laptop purchases, Gartner said Wednesday as it downgraded PC shipment projections.
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Startup targets flash memory latency
Plenty of hardware vendors are pushing out Solid State Disk products to speed up data access. Now a startup is emerging from stealth mode with server software designed to make it easier to use SSD with existing storage systems and applications.
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Mac OS X more vulnerable than Windows in some ways, security expert says
Although Mac users are more likely to experience virus-free computing than Windows PC owners, there is nothing inherently more secure about Apple's operating system, and in certain respects Mac OS X is more vulnerable than Windows, a security expert tells Network World.
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NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms
The New York Stock Exchange has built a VMware-based cloud computing service for financial firms, which goes live today from a data center in New Jersey with expansions planned for Toronto, Tokyo and London.
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Citrix founder's new startup targets data sprawl
Citrix founder Edward Iacobucci is launching a startup called <a href="http://www.virtualworks.com">VirtualWorks Group</a> that plans to organize the mountains of data overwhelming modern businesses.
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iPad's Web browsing share 53 times greater than top Android tablets
The iPad now accounts for nearly 1% of all Web browsing, which may not sound like a lot until you look at the numbers for Apple's closest competitors.
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Microsoft seen not to blame for Skype rejecting open source company
Microsoft, long the enemy of open source software, announces a pending deal to buy Skype and Skype promptly ditches a partnership with an open source company. Those two things have to be related, right?
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