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Workstation Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux
Here is the continuation of a series of comparison tests that is without doubt bound to cause a huge amount of controversy: Workstation Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux There are performance wins and losses on both sides…
August 4 2010, 3:20am | Comments
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Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe
peterkern writes "The July browser market share reports are somewhat inconsistent, but if we believe StatCounter, then it looks like Firefox will be overtaking Microsoft IE's market share next month. The two browsers are both within 1 point…
August 3 2010, 7:19pm | Comments
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Using Google Wave in the Enterprise
When Google launched Wave last year, it was immediately obvious that it would be useful for collaboration. What was less obvious, however, was whether it would be a good choice for enterprise-level collaboration. Google’s tool takes a simplistic…
August 3 2010, 9:05am | Comments
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Facebook Doubles Size of Data Center Before It’s Even Built
Facebook said late Friday that it is adding 160,000 square feet to the 147,000 square-foot data center it’s currently building in Prineville, Ore. Being able to make such on-the-fly changes is part of why Facebook wants a wholly…
August 3 2010, 6:57am | Comments
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The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth
astroengine writes "Yesterday morning, at 08:55 UT, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory detected a C3-class flare erupt inside a sunspot cluster. 100,000 kilometers away, deep within the solar atmosphere (the corona), an extended magnetic field filled with cool plasma…
August 3 2010, 6:54am | Comments
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Google Releases "Canary Build" of Chrome for the Early, Early Adopters
For early adopters and the technologically curious, waiting for the next version of a product can be trying. For those of you running Google's open-source browser Chrome, there has been the Dev channel, where new in-development releases of…
August 3 2010, 5:01am | Comments
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Botnet with 60GB of stolen data cracked wide open
Fast flux no more Researchers have cracked open a botnet that amassed more than 60GB of passwords and other stolen data, even as it cloaked itself using a state-of-the-art technique known as fast flux.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing…
August 3 2010, 4:06am | Comments
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Canalys: Android takes Q2 smartphone market share lead in US with 886 percent year-over-year growth
We knew Android phones were selling like gangbusters -- Google has been none too shy in telling us as much -- but numbers were slightly less clear in a larger context. Well, if a new report by Canalys…
August 3 2010, 12:44am | Comments
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7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users
Robert Johnson, a director of engineering at Facebook, celebrated Facebooks's monumental achievement of reaching 500 million users by sharing the scaling principles that helped reach that milestone. In case you weren't suitably impressed by the 500 million user number, Robert ratchets up…
August 3 2010, 12:42am | Comments
