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Nokia Siemens to tap into Ruckus for service-provider Wi-Fi

Ruckus Wireless will announce two deals at the CTIA Wireless show this week which reflect service providers' growing interest in the unlicensed wireless technology.
NASA space shuttle Discovery launch delayed by hydrogen leak

Final liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery was postponed for a fourth time due to a hydrogen leak.
NASA delays Space Shuttle Discovery launch

NASA today postponed the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery by a day to complete repairs to stop a pair of gas leaks.
IBM to buy Netezza for £1.1 billion

IBM has announced plans to acquire firm Netezza for approximately $1.7 billion (£1.1 billion) in cash in an effort to expand its business analytics offerings.
EMC settles charges of false-pricing US government

The US Department of Justice said that EMC has paid the government $87.5 million to settle allegations that it gave kickbacks to consultants and overcharged for hardware and software.
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric to speed up web applications

The products provide speed, scalability, and high availability for Web applications and simplify the development of composite applications
Storage professionals avoid clouds for data

Cloud storage platforms need to mature before they are enterprise-ready, particularly for customers in highly regulated industries.
WiMAX network on the Open Range

Despite predictions of its decline, WiMAX continues to attract interest especially in the United States, after equipment vendor Alvarion teamed up with ISP Open Range Communications to build a WiMAX network that could reach up to 6 million people.
Oracle buys retail designer AVT

Oracle has bought Advanced Visual Technology, a maker of space-planning software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum, the company has announced.
Unisys overhaul guns for HP and Sun

Unisys has announced new servers and a suite of infrastructure management software for datacentres, where it plans to compete aggressively with HP and Sun.

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How to build a wireless network

In the Wild West of mobility, you'll need to support all kinds of consumer devices that tap into your wireless network. How Bryant & Stratton College's CIO Ernest Lehman created a blueprint for a secure wireless network that could be rolled out to the campuses.
Moving a data centre? Avoid these four career-limiting mistakes

Moving a data centre is a major undertaking for most organisations. And a successful move is a nice resume builder for any IT professional. A successful move will showcase skills in large-scale project planning, project management, technology integration and interpersonal communications. The process provides a chance for exposure across the company, as virtually every department is touched by the IT organisation (and affected by a data centre move) in some way.
Mobile developers speak out on Windows Phone 7

Mobile developers had their first chance to learn details of the radically redesigned Windows Phone 7 mobile platform at Microsoft's MIX10 conference this week. They've got a lot think about, and they're thinking hard.
Global Action Plan

Global Action Plan is a charity, run as a small business, that wants to revolutionise IT use by business and make it much more energy-efficient. Can it do this?
Who wants a WiMax handheld device?

You'd think people would be excited by the idea of WiMax in the pocket. Here's the reasons why analysts expect the Mtube won't travel well outside Taiwan.
Ghost's Ghost: the everywhere OS

Ghost is founded on the passionate belief that the Windows and Mac model of your operating system is obsolete.
As OpenVMS nears 30, users dredge up videos from DEC's heyday

Old clips get posted online to mark operating system's upcoming anniversary.
Routing for Sweden

What the Redback acquisition means to Ericsson.
Fixed/mobile convergence: What's in it for users?

Combining mobiles with fixed phone services is a good idea - and it's going to become essential.
Security vendors face up to change

Know the companies who sell you security products? Your vendor list might look quite different tomorrow.

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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...

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