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  • IBM boosts SAN Volume Controller performance with SSDs

    IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

  • Collaboration tools worth the investment, survey says

    A recent global survey of business and IT managers found that their companies got back benefits perceived as equal to four times their investment, on average, in unified communication and collaboration technologies.

  • EnterpriseDB cites enterprise capabilities in open source database

    EnterpriseDB is touting enterprise-level capabilities of its Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4 open source database, which was released this week. The company says the database, which is based on PostgreSQL database technology, offers enterprises cost benefits of open source, performance benefits of a community-developed product, and the reassurance of vendor support.

  • Opera addresses security concerns with Unite beta

    Opera Software has released a beta version of Unite, its browser-based application platform, it said on Wednesday.

    Opera Unite turns any computer running Opera into a Web server, and lets users run applications and share content in the browser.

  • Bugs hit Google Docs after recent upgrade

    Google Docs users are having problems printing, exporting, and uploading certain files, the company acknowledged, as it is rolling out a set of upgrades to this hosted office productivity suite.

  • Update: Acer debuts smartphone, netbook with Google Android

    Acer, the world’s third largest PC vendor, on Wednesday announced two of its most highly anticipated products with Google’s Android mobile operating system on board, the Liquid smartphone and an Aspire One netbook.

  • Dell CEO slams netbooks, hails Windows 7

    Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs-down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.

    The Dell founder and CEO answered questions Tuesday night at a Silicon Valley dinner sponsored by the Churchill Club, where he also owned up to the “biggest mistake” of his career and described his company’s plan to expand further into IT services.

  • Adobe mimics Microsoft, issues mega security update

    Adobe issued a security update Tuesday that patched 29 vulnerabilities in its popular PDF viewing and editing applications, most of them bugs that attackers can use to grab control of personal computers.

  • New iPhone 3G S may be jailbreak-proof

    The cat-and-mouse game between Apple and a cadre of hackers continues as Apple is reportedly now shipping iPhone 3G S units that are jailbreak-proof.

  • Intel reports strong Q3 buoyed by economy’s ‘momentum’

    Intel on Tuesday reported strong third-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations and were buoyed by what the company called “momentum” in the economy.

    The chip maker reported third-quarter revenue of $9.39 billion for the quarter that ended Sept. 26, beating the $9.04 billion estimated by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Revenue was up by $1.4 billion compared to this fiscal year’s second quarter, though it was lower than the $10.2 billion Intel reported in the third quarter last year.

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