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[TechRepublic] Is the rise of the IT supervendors a good thing?

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Poll: Is the rise of the IT supervendors a good thing or bad thing? IT superpowers IBM, HP, Oracle, and Cisco have been gobbling up big acquisitions to become the one vendor IT departments need. Is this a good trend or a bad trend? Take the poll. Read more Resource of the day Free Trial: IBM LotusLive Engage for Online Collaboration LotusLive Engage is a full-range suite of online collaboration services designed to help you drive business. It delivers the essential collaboration tools you need before, during and after your online meeting. Try this free 30-day trial! More from TechRepublic   Five tips for deciding when to replace an aging PC You may not want to part with a system you like -- especially if you've put a lot of money into it. But sometimes it's the sensible thing to do. Brien Posey lists some clear-cut reasons to retire older hardware. Read more Poll: Top 10 alternative names for 'crapware' Maybe the word 'crapware' says it all. But Michael Kassner is searching for a better descriptor for that plague of unwanted software. Vote for your favorite new name. Read more Cisco survey asks: Is the office really necessary? According to a recent survey, end-users are demanding a more distributed workforce. Is your IT department, like half of the respondents, unprepared to support this? Read more 10 reasons for Windows Mobile users to switch to Droid If you're looking for advanced smart phone capabilities and you don't want to wait months to get them, Deb Shinder suggests you consider a Droid. Read more News from ZDNet   Microsoft: 240 million licenses of Windows 7 sold in its first year Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 7. To celebrate, Microsoft is releasing new numbers, claiming that the company has sold 240 million licenses of the product to date. Read more Apple unveils new, thinner MacBook Air [video] Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils two new versions of the MacBook Air, describing the new notebook line as what would likely result if a MacBook and an iPad "hooked up." The new design features a trackpad with Multi-Touch support, a much longer battery life, and flash storage options. [video=477010] Read more Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video] Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Vice President Craig Federighi offer a look at Lion, the next version of Mac OS X. The demo shows a new feature called Mission Control, which combines the Expose, Dashboard, and Spaces applications of OS X with full-screen apps. The new operating system is due... Read more Nokia cuts workers, consolidates dev platforms, posts profit Nokia made a bevy of moves it hopes will make it more competitive in the smartphone market. The changes mark the first efforts of new CEO Stephen Elop to revamp the company. Read more Why the new MacBook Air isn't for pros Apple today announced an update to its MacBook Air sub-notebook. The problem is that it isn't powerful enough for pro users. Read more Why Apple's new Mac App store gives me the willies A Mac App store could inspire other vendors to shut down software freedom and finally, drunk on DRM, make the nightmare of Orwell's 1984 into a reality. Read more Don't forget: Microsoft is (supposedly) working on a Windows app store, too What should Microsoft do with Windows (if anything) in light of today's Apple announcements around a new app store and OS directions for its Macs? Read more Google passivity over Android becoming a political liability Android has become a Frankenstein monster says the New America Foundation, whose board chairman is Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Read more Google starts to pay price for Android failures Google's purpose with Android seems to be to keep some market share from Steve Jobs and Microsoft. It has succeeded but at a cost to its reputation. Read more Did Ballmer leave the door ajar for Windows Phone 7 tablet? Reading the tea leaves, it sure sounds like Microsoft is at least open to a Windows Phone 7 powered tablet. That's a move that would make a lot of sense. Read more Top Ten Countries for Mobile Web Surfing (I'm moving to Slovakia) Akamai Technologies' updated list of user mobile browsing speeds by carrier and country shows the U.S. lagging behind many developing nations. Read more Traditional databases vs. the threat from in-memory, NoSQL Traditional databases may not be able to keep up with the petabytes of data---soon to be exabytes---that we're storing and that's going to lead to the rise of in-memory databases as well as other hardware-assisted tools. Read more Linux kernel vulnerability coughs up superuser rights The open-source Linux operating system contains a serious security flaw that can be exploited to gain superuser rights on a target system. 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