Microsoft adds .Net to give Silverlight a shine ... Dell memo hints at layoffs, acquisitions

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News: Microsoft adds .Net to give Silverlight a shine
News: Verio to shut off controversial Web site
News: Supreme Court favors Microsoft in AT&T case
News: Search Wikia hires Jabber founder, expands concept
News: Dell memo hints at layoffs, acquisitions
Storage Tip: iSCSI is doing just fine thank you
ITwhirled: Text messaging to render Irish children illiterate


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Microsoft adds .Net to give Silverlight a shine
Microsoft Corp. is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web, the company revealed Monday. The move is part of an expanded effort to build a significant developer base so Microsoft can catch up to Adobe Systems Inc. in providing a revenue-generating business in the rich Internet applications (RIAs) market.

Verio to shut off controversial Web site
Privacy advocates are concerned that a move by Verio to stop hosting a controversial Web site points to a growing control of the Web by big business and governments.

Supreme Court favors Microsoft in AT&T case
The Supreme Court today ruled that Microsoft Corp. is not liable for using patented AT&T Inc. technology in copies of Windows running on computers outside the U.S. The 7-to-1 ruling relieves the software giant from paying what could have been enormous damages and changes how the software industry looks at patent rights.

Search Wikia hires Jabber founder, expands concept
Jabber creator Jeremie Miller is joining Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia Inc., in building an open-source, community-driven search service.

Dell memo hints at layoffs, acquisitions
Michael Dell is considering layoffs and acquisitions at Dell Inc., according to a corporate memo that was leaked to the press on Saturday.

Google rejects Viacom's copyright claims
Google Inc. has rejected claims that it enables copyright infringement on its YouTube.com Web site, its first response to entertainment giant Viacom Inc.'s $1 billion lawsuit filed in March.

Microsoft adds open-source twist to Silverlight
Microsoft Corp. Monday broadened the developer base and programming capabilities for Silverlight by adding dynamic language support to an alpha version of the browser plug-in technology.

Nokia eyes scalability with new security appliance
In the booming market for network security, Nokia Corp. is driving up performance for both large enterprises and small and branch offices with new appliances.

Qualcomm inks OFDM deal, bolsters IP claim
Qualcomm Inc. may have gained another small weapon for what could become a huge battle over essential patents on next-generation wireless networks. In a deal announced Monday, Qualcomm agreed to license its OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and OFDMA (OFDM Access) technology to 4G Systems GmbH, a Hamburg, Germany, manufacturer of broadband wireless products.

After Sony, Kutaragi looks to the network
Ken Kutaragi, the former head of Sony Corp.'s game division and the man who brought the world the PlayStation, will look to harness the power of the network to tie together content in his next endeavor.


STORAGE TIP

iSCSI is doing just fine thank you
By David Hill, Mesabi Group

As an analyst, I tend to forget that not everyone is familiar with storage technologies even though they have been around for awhile and talked about extensively in the media. So it is with iSCSI. You may or may not be familiar with iSCSI, but you should know about the future of iSCSI -- especially in relationship to the other major storage networking protocol -- Fibre Channel.

Here's what you need to know.

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ITWHIRLED

Text messaging to render Irish children illiterate
The next generation of Irishmen and Irishwomen could grow up with only rudimentary writing skills, and Ireland's Department of Education says cell phones and text messaging are to blame, obviously. A report notes that kids are "choosing to answer sparingly, even minimally, rather than seeing questions as invitations to explore the territory they had studied and to express the breadth and depth of their learning and understanding."

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