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In today's podcast: IBM announces new Power7 processor; PayPal suspends payments in India; and Google reduces Nexus One termination fee.

This executive-floor user calls newbie pilot fish to complain that her monitor has mysteriously gone blank. Can fish help her recover what she was working on?

Facebook's new redesign makes it easier to get at the service's most useful tools -- with one big exception.

Microsoft has concluded that last week's story about batteries failing due to a Windows 7 bug is bunkum. Sadly, it doesn't seem to have satisfied the users, who are complaining louder than ever. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to figure out why. Not to mention GNILLEY: gaming by yelling...
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Ever since the MacBook Air, a machine made for 3G wireless access, was released without built-in ability to connect to mobile wireless, I've been waiting for Apple to put 3G access in their laptops.

Will my wait be over soon?

A couple of things have happened in the last month that give me a bit of hope.

The new method of optimizing IT takes a more holistic view of problems and leverages innovations in technologies and services to increase efficiency and get better return on existing assets. This in turn enables IT management to combine the budgets of multiple projects to provide better purchasing power, and through innovations such as virtualization or cloud computing, provide data services at commodity prices.

Software glitches may be behind sudden acceleration and braking failures in Toyota vehicles. Can software quality ever match what Toyota achieved in hardware manufacturing?

Matt Asay, well-known open-source leader and Alfresco VP, has moved over to Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company.

There are those who claim that Microsoft has been too slow to bring innovative products to market --- and now an ex-VP joins the chorus, delivering a devastating critique. It makes for eye-opening reading.

From time to time, I hear security vendors make claims that make no sense. In fact, let's not mince words: I sometimes hear security vendors lie. There, I said it. This week on Security Levity, I want to talk about one such example...

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd's paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970.

Cisco Press sponsors massive library giveaway to help you prep for the new CCNP tests.

Missing software engineers have joined iGDP economy

Shifting the burden of security processing and administration from endpoints to scalable appliances makes sense in VDI architectures.

I use a three step process for trying out a new technology:

1. Find a way to try it out with minimal time and budget impact.
2. Discuss my experience in a large community.
3. Try it again.