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Can Adobe, Microsoft, and Facebook deals help revive BlackBerry? The opening keynote of BlackBerry World 2011 focused on three key partnerships in lieu of any big announcements about smartphones or tablets. Read more Resource of the day Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center Perforated tiles on a raised floor deliver unpredictable airflow levels, causing inefficiency and equipment failure. This paper discusses data center design on perforated tile airflow and how to improve airflow predictably. More from TechRepublic   Take back your privacy with disinformation TR member dcolbert says that Google, Apple, and Facebook can only track you based on the information that you provide. He suggests that we provide disinformation and take back some of our privacy. Read more Five tips for maintaining a healthy Windows system A little preventive maintenance can go a long way toward keeping a machine optimized and problem-free. Here are some basic but vital steps to follow. 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Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Read more Amazon: Is an Android fork inevitable? Meet Kindlebread Recent reports indicate that Amazon has placed manufacturing orders in Asia to produce their very own Android Tablet. But what species of Android will run on this yet-to-be-released device? Read more WikiLeaks founder: Facebook is "most appalling spying machine ever invented" WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called Facebook "the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented." Facebook has responded. Read more Microsoft: Friend to all struggling smartphone players; Mobile plan set Parnterships with RIM and Nokia mean we're about to enter an interesting juncture with Microsoft's mobile strategy: The software giant will have distribution and partnerships in place to make a... Read more Apple refreshes iMac with Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt Apple today announced a refresh of its iMac line that includes modern Intel processors and its brand-new ThunderBolt I/O technology.New features include:Quad-core Intel Sandy Bridge... Read more Google bows to carrier pressure on Android tethering apps AT&T and Verizon, with a significant hand from Google, have begun cracking down on Android tethering apps, which enable users to avoid official carrier tethering plans. Read more BlackBerry taps Bing to power search and maps Microsoft and Research in Motion have signed a deal to make Bing the default search and maps app for BlackBerry devices. They also plan to develop these apps into augmented reality services. Read more BlackBerry OS 7 won't support Android apps or Flash In something of a confusing announcement, RIM says that the newest version of its BlackBerry OS won't feature support for Flash and Android apps - functionality that the company bills as pivotal... Read more Rapidly evolving IT trends make open source, agile application integration platforms more important than ever We're probably at a point now where weââ¬â¢re going to see that the traditional model of providing software is going to dwindle over time, probably pretty rapidly, as organizations realize that they... Read more Microsoft begins pushing out Windows Phone 7 security update Microsoft has begun notifying some Windows Phone 7 users that a new security-focused update for Windows Phone 7 is ready for download. Read more ViewSonic gives ViewPad 10 official boost to Android 2.2 ViewSonic's ViewPad 10, which launched back in March, garnered attention with its dual operating system feature. Android 2.2 was advertised as an upcoming feature then, and it's a reality now. Read more The case for Intel making Apple's mobile chips: A Wintel of the post-PC era Intel is reportedly in the running to make Apple's mobile chips---the A4 and A5---in a foundry deal. 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