Seth Colaner
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Polycom is putting its money where its mouth is in terms of attempting to deliver the best possible video communications solutions. The company has now acquired ViVu, Inc. for an undisclosed cash sum. The deal closed on Friday, and Polycom expects that its earnings won’t be affected either way in the wake of the deal. ViVu made software...
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Senior vice president and head of global research at Gartner Peter Sondergaard revealed Gartner’s forecast for enterprise IT spending in 2012 at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. The firm believes that enterprise IT spending worldwide...
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LibreOffice, which is a project forked from the once-popular OpenOffice.org (OOo), has done well. Recently, the productivity software suite celebrated its first full year since splitting from its origins, and this week The Document Foundation (TDF)--the group responsible for overseeing...
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Terrible news for everyone (i.e., almost no one, apparently) that used Buzz, Code Search, Google Labs, Jaiku, iGoogle’s social features, and the University Research Program for Google Search: Google is killing them off, and it’s also merging Boutiques.com and Like.com into Google...
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Sad Android, indeed. Box.net, which offers a Dropbox-like cloud storage service for both personal and business users, is offering 50GB of free cloud storage to anyone who downloads (or in the case of existing users, upgrades to) the latest Box.net iOS app (version 2.4.3) and logs in to the...
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According to a report by the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, Google is planning to launch an online music store within weeks. The company is apparently in talks with the big record labels, trying to nail down the details. Presumably, this online store would work in tandem with (or expand the capabilities of) Music Beta, Google’s...
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Polycom announced Polycom RealPresence Mobile, an enterprise HD video collaboration tool specifically designed for tablets. Now, employees and consultants can join desktop or conference room video meetings on a tablet, in HD. Supported tablets include the iPad 2, Motorola Xoom, and Samsung...
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And so, the Jaguar gave way to the Titan. Cray Inc. will upgrade its XT5 “Jaguar” supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to its XK6 “Titan” supercomputer, which will be capable of between 10 and 20 petaflops when...
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ViewSonic is adding to its line of tablets with the ViewPad 10e, announced today. The 9.7-inch tablet will feature a 4:3 ratio, a 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor, and 4GB of built-in storage (expandable to 32GB with a microSD card). For connectivity, the ViewPad 10e sports wireless 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and a minin HDMI connector. As far as...
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Patriot Memory added to its Pyro line of SSDs today with a trio of drives under the Pyro SE name. Available in capacities of 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB, the SandForce SF-2281-based SATA III SSDs feature synchronous NAND as well as TRIM, DuraClass, DuraWrite technologies. The drives have read/write speeds of up to 550MB/s / 520MB/s, 85,000 IOPS,...
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Mobile security company 3LM (“Three Laws of Mobility”), a subsidiary of Motorola Mobility, is ready for primetime with a solution that makes Android handsets enterprise-ready. The company is apparently ready to release its product from a private beta this week; it’s due for a...
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Netflix has done so many things right for so long that it’s baffling how badly the company has been bumbling around as of late. First, Netflix announced new pricing structures in July that were terribly unpopular; instead of paying under $10 a month for 2-at-a-time DVDs and unlimited...
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Reports from a variety of sources indicate that the forthcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) will feature ARM architecture support as well as a variety of cloud features. At the Open Stack conference in Boston this week, Jane Silber, CEO...
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Digital storage company Imation is adding NAS appliances to its portfolio, according to a Computerworld report. Appliances are in the InfiniVault or DataGuard lines, both of which Imation acquired when the company bought ProStor Systems’s assets in August. InfiniVault is a tiered storage system that uses fixed RAID and RDX removable...
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According to a report by Tech-On!, Kyocera Corp. demoed a new touchscreen panel for mobile devices at CEATEC Japan that simulates the feeling of touching a physical button. Bearing the moniker “New Sensation Touch Panel”, the new touchscreen apparently uses piezoelectric elements embedded between the LCD and touch panels. When...
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Ah, you gotta love some healthy industry competition; consumers always win. Today’s win is brought to you by online music service Rdio, which now offers free Web streaming. The music streaming market has plenty of players, and with the recent arrival of Spotify to the U.S., it makes sense for Rdio to elbow for more room by rolling out...
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In speech remarks posted on the FCC website, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced a plan to bring broadband and mobile broadband access to the entire country. Big talk of that nature is nothing new, but the plan portends to achieve...
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A trio of new Corsair SSDs are now available, and they’re both built for speed and designed to give users better options in terms of capacity. All three are built with the SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor and support for SATA 6Gbps with backward compatibility for SATAII. Two of the SSDs...
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According to a forecast from Gartner, external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendors will see remarkable revenue growth as the external cloud computing market (i.e., third-party cloud providers) continues to develop. In 2010, ECB...
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The X7200 notebook from AVADirect already boasts some incredible features, including support for six-core Intel chips, dual ATI/NVIDIA GPUs, and up to three SATA drives, but now you can opt for up to 24GB of memory, too. In order to take advantage of all 24GB of RAM, users will need Windows...
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Designed to take advantage of that 32GB of total system memory or to give a notebook serious performance boost, respectively, Corsair announced 8GB Vengeance and Value Select DDR3 memory kits. The Vengeance kits run at 1600MHz (1.5V) with...
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Today, Apple let loose with a number of product announcements, not the least of which concerns iOS 5. Apple claims that there are over 200 new features in iOS 5, but the company boiled them down to the most important ones, which we’ll cover below. Note that new iPod touches will also run on iOS 5, so these updates are pertinent for touch...
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