Adobe CEO responds to Microsoft's Silverlight ... Microsoft releases Media Player plug-in for Firefox

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News: Adobe CEO responds to Microsoft's Silverlight
News: Microsoft releases Media Player plug-in for Firefox
News: Intel processor hits speedy 2 teraflops in demo
News: Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi freshen server lines
Security Tip: Three inexpensive ways to increase security
ITwhirled: 10 years of blogs: An incomplete timeline
Podcast: Intel developing x86-compatible terascale chip ... New servers from Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi ... Adobe questions Microsoft plans with Silverlight ... Oracle releases integration software


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Adobe CEO responds to Microsoft's Silverlight
Silverlight, which is seen as Microsoft's challenger to Adobe's Flash format, was unveiled Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas. The head of Adobe has questioned Microsoft's commitment to keeping its new Silverlight platform compatible with other operating systems besides Windows.

Microsoft releases Media Player plug-in for Firefox
Microsoft, as part of its outreach to the open-source community, has released a new official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one.

IDF: Intel processor hits speedy 2 teraflops in demo
Intel Corp. demonstrated its fastest multi-core processor yet at the Spring Intel Development Forum (IDF) in Beijing on Tuesday, an 80-core processor that hit a speedy 2-teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) in a demonstration.

Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi freshen server lines
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. are introducing new servers Tuesday that they jointly developed, while another server maker, Hitachi Ltd., is unveiling new blade servers. They each aim to address buyers' dual needs for computing power and energy efficiency.

Amazon Web Services losing money
Amazon.com Inc.'s Web services business isn't profitable, but it's growing very rapidly and the company expects it to make money eventually, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said Monday.

IDF: Intel plans powerful x86 chip with many cores
Intel Corp. is developing a programmable processor with many cores that is compatible with the x86 instruction set and capable of performing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, a senior company executive said Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.

JotSpot chief: Google is a nerd paradise
JotSpot agreed to be acquired by Google Inc. partly because the search engine giant is "a nerd's paradise," JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus said Monday. As a self-described nerd leading a startup of nerds, Kraus "couldn't think of a better company" to be acquired by in Silicon Valley, he said at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Vonage admits it has no workaround
Vonage Holdings Corp. has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications Inc. patents and does not know if one is feasible.

Yahoo expands ad deal with newspaper partners
In a win for its online advertising strategy, Yahoo Inc. Monday extended a deal that makes it the exclusive online distribution site for U.S. newspapers from a consortium of 12 newspaper companies, enabling the Web portal and search vendor to share and earn online advertising revenue with them.


SECURITY TIP

Three inexpensive ways to increase security
By Brent Huston, ITworld.com

Want to increase overall security of your small to mid-size business network without spending much time or money? These three inexpensive ideas will help bring more security and less hassle to your environment.

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ITWHIRLED

10 years of blogs: An incomplete timeline
Hard to believe it, but the now-ubiquitous weblog turned 10 this month. Here are a few of the milestones -- minus any incidents of people being fired for blogging, bloggers getting people fired, or famous bloggers being fired -- needless to say, it's a short list.

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