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| Intel investing billions in U.S. manufacturing, creating thousands of jobs Intel said today that it is investing between $6 billion and $8 billion on next-generation manufacturing technology in its U.S facilities, a move that not only supports up to 1,000 new high-tech jobs but will also create 6,000-8,000 construction jobs for a new development fabrication plant in Oregon that will... Read more |
| Firefox dirty dozen: Mozilla patches 'critical' browser flaws Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.11 with patches for a dozen security holes, some serious enough to launch attacks if a user simply surfs to a booby-trapped website. Read more |
| Apple leaks clues to new "Back to the Mac" products, including mystery product It seems that Apple has jumped the gun a bit and posted up placeholder pages on its support forum giving us clues as to what might be upcoming. Read more |
| Survey: Macs to make significant enterprise gains in 2011 Following the upbeat comments about gains of Macs and iPads in the enterprise and corporate environments by Apple executives on Monday at its quarterly analyst call, survey results released on Tuesday by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance claim that Macs will be the fastest growing systems in the enterprise through 2011.... Read more |
| Reports: Verizon to offer cheaper, limited data plan; not killing unlimited plan Verizon Wireless will reportedly offer a monthly data plan that is less expensive than the existing unlimited data plan but will also impose limits on its usage, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. However, unlike AT&T, which eliminated an unlimited plan for new customers when it introduced... Read more |
| Cloud computing in the enterprise: What's the holdup? Security, compliance and auditing, contracts and service level agreements appear to be keeping 70 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees from starting a cloud computing initiative, according to Gartner. Read more |
| Splunk adding end-to-end visibility to IT's tool kit Splunk makes it possible for organizations to peer into their systems, their solutions and their workloads to learn what is really happening all in real time. Read more |
| Will 7-inch tablets fill the 'functional wasteland' void? Here's the problem with the onslaught of smartphones, tablets, notebooks and other computing gadgets hitting the market: Unless you can somehow break the rules of physics one size never fits all. Read more |
| Motorola's assault on RIM about to begin: 15 minutes with Droid Pro Motorola will be launching its Droid Pro Android device for businesses in early November and the smartphone has the goods to be a real threat to the BlackBerry. Read more |
| CIO pay should be tethered to revenue generation Should CIO pay---or even yours---be based on your company's revenue generation? Gartner makes the case. Read more |
| HTC denies report of Windows Phone 7 shipment delays A report on October 18 that HTC had discovered issues with its Windows Phone 7 devices that could lead to delivery delays is being denied by HTC. Read more |
| New renderings of MSI WindPad 100 tablet surface Remember those photos of the MSI WindPad 100 that were released in August? Now some new renderings have surfaced, and the design looks quite different. Read more |
| Android destroying Nokia but to what end It was Nokia's passivity that led Symbian to the precipice from which it has fallen. Will Google learn that lesson in time? Read more |
