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  • Apple targets Google Nexus One in patent actions

    Apple took aim at Google's smartphone as it accused Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC, which makes Google's flagship Nexus One, of violating 20 of Apple's patents, some of which were issued in the mid-1990s.
  • Virgin Media promises 100Mbps broadband

    There is nothing we can't do with our fibre optic cable network, and the upcoming launch of our flagship 100Mb service will give our customers the ultimate broadband experience," said Virgin Media's chief executive officer, Neil Berkett.Just as we…
  • SQL Server 2008 R2 to launch in May

    SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest version of Microsoft's flagship database, will be generally available in May, the company said Tuesday. SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest version of Microsoft's flagship database, will be generally available in May, the…
  • Google Chrome steals Apple's browser spot

    Opera Software's flagship browser also gained ground in December, and accounted for 2.4% of all browsers used in the month, a record for the Norwegian-made program. Google's Chrome overtook Apple's Safari to become the world's third most popular…
  • Sybase embraces Google MapReduce

    Microsoft is reportedly working to add MapReduce-like features to the next version of its Flagship database, SQL Server 2008 R2 , codenamed Madison. Sybase CTO Irfan Khan said that adding MapReduce functionality to the Sybase IQ analytic should…
  • Firefox turns five, as security firm claims browser is least secure

    Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) was third, while Opera Software's flagship browser took fourth place.The Cenzic report can be downloaded from the company's site (download PDF).It's not rocket science," said Lars Ewe, Cenzic's chief technology…

Latest Features

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    As a result, Office 2010, due later this year, will be a milestone for two reasons: Alongside Windows 7, it will complete the upgrade cycle of Microsoft's flagship products. Further, Azure's close relationship with the Windows programming…
  • Vendors look to tap into new storage trends

    The flagship Nexus 7000, which Cisco has positioned as one of its most important products ever, is built to scale to 15T bps (bits per second) and has a virtualised version of IOS called NX OS. Companies are having to cope with an ever-increasing…
  • 5 things to consider before committing to SAP

    First there was R/1, then R/2, and then R/3 (naming was so much easier then)," he notes.Since 1999, however, SAP has branched out from its flagship ERP software to deliver dozens of products "with a bewildering set of options, variants, and names…
  • Opera boss orchestrates the handheld web

    The eponymous company's new flagship though is Opera Mobile, a full HTML-compliant browser that's offered both to hardware manufacturers - Opera claims 115 different devices shipped with its software aboard last year - and for end users to download.
  • The green computing backlash grows

    Cassatt's initial flagship product was a dynamic resource provisioning tool called Collage, and Coleman hawked it as a utility computing godsend.What's especially interesting is that if you go to Cassatt's website today, you'll find no reference…
  • Virtualisation market starts to mature

    The company's been a long-time partner of VMware's and has managed, unlike many of its counterparts, to avoid being trodden on as the features list of VMware's flagship hypervisor expands ever outwards.Until now, the company has sold VM management…
 

How-Tos

  • How to use open APIs to boost your business

    Sonoa's flagship product, ServiceNet is available as a hardware appliance, a virtual software image for private data centre, or public cloud deployment.Ramji described a major US retailer whose IT department built and exposed an API to its…
  • How to add Facebook and LinkedIn contacts to Outlook

    To be precise, I'm annoyed that Microsoft has yet to implement conversation threading into its flagship mail client.This is precisely why I'm thrilled with Xobni. Manage your social media contacts with Xobni, a free open source Outlook plug-in.
  • Case Study: A tailor-made VoIP system

    Savile Row, London, Gieves and Hawkes has administrative offices in Esher, wholesale and overseas businesses, and stores including a flagship location for its Gieves brand in Knightbridge's Sloane Square.
  • Case Study: Data loss prevention takes a catch

    He had been using email and Yahoo Briefcase to copy design documents and source code for some of our flagship products. Our intrusion-detection sensors give us about 40 percent coverage of our network, but we lack the manpower to pay proper…
  • Case Study: D2D backup for Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets

    With the inherent scalability and high performance of our backup systems, we can now respond to new product deployments more effectively - without having to worry whether our backup capabilities will slow us down.The Data Domain solution was very…
  • Case Study: MAID service for Time Warner Cable

    Copan's flagship product, the Revolution 200T, utilizes this patent-pending MAID-based architecture, and its Power-Managed RAID scheme, to deliver massively scalable and reliable disk-based storage at affordable cost points.

Reviews

  • Intel Core i7 980X review

    It is understandably positioned at the top commanding flagship prices, targeted at those who will build the rest of their desktop using similarly top-end components to prevent bottlenecks. The Intel Core i7 980X is Intel's latest six-core, 3.33GHz…
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    Clearly an administrator needs a software package capable of managing a sprawling environment full of virtual machines; Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2, delivered in August 2009, is the software giant's latest…
  • Palm Pre Plus review

    Palm Pre Plus review Ginny Mies This year's update to Palm's flagship mobile review,reviews If you're looking for a smaller and less expensive alternative to the Motorola Droid you will be pleased with the Palm Pre Plus.
  • Parallels Desktop 4 review

    Locked in a death struggle with VMware on the Macintosh platform, Parallels allowed its Windows version to languish for nearly two years while it focused on defending its Mac OS X flagship. Parallels Workstation for Windows, as it was called back…
  • Desktop virtualisation shoot out

    Users from the three major platforms - Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux - are flocking to VirtualBox for its scalability, robust networking, and bargain price point (it's free).Meanwhile, VMware continues to steer its flagship Workstation offering…
  • Firefox 3.6 RC review

    But for all the excitement, it would be a real mistake to overlook Firefox; with the forthcoming release of Firefox 3.6, which is now available as a release candidate, Mozilla's flagship browser is looking better than ever.

White Papers

  • The sweet taste of success

    The company was founded by chocolatier Chantal Coady in 1983 and the flagship store still occupies its original building on the fashionable Kings Road. The company was founded by chocolatier Chantal Coady in 1983 and the flagship store still…
  • Security Management Technology Audit - LANDesk Software

    The LANDesk Management Suite is the company's overarching flagship solution for delivering business management services.However, as the product model continues to mature the company also recognises that service management and business continuity…
  • Data Pump delivers for the flagship of the NHS

    Data Pump delivers for the flagship of the NHS Datawatch Ensuring data flow after outsourcing your storage whitepaper University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) is proving a standard bearer for all thats best in the UK…
 
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