Cisco, Microsoft, EMC join on gov't data project

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News: Cisco, Microsoft, EMC join on gov't data project
News: MSN streams Live Earth to 8 million people
News: With Postini, a business case for security at Google
News: AMD cuts chip prices, Intel expected to follow
News: Laptop PC sales hit records in June after Santa Rosa lull
News: Sprint Nextel bid talk 'groundless' says SK Telecom
News: Microsoft customers sour on Software Assurance
News: TurboLinux to help translate Open XML for Asia
News: SF Wi-Fi plan faces key votes
News: CommVault's QiNetix gets new name and refresh
News: Intel Capital to buy $218.5 million share of VMware
Feature: TB case highlights e-mail archiving trend
ITWhirled: Shocker: Webcam actually helps personal security


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Cisco, Microsoft, EMC join on gov't data project
Several technology companies will build a system to let the U.S. government share data securely among its various agencies, a goal it has struggled to achieve since the September 2001 terrorist attacks.


MSN streams Live Earth to 8 million people
Microsoft Corp. says it set a record for streaming an online event to the most customers after offering the Live Earth concerts on MSN over the weekend.


With Postini, a business case for security at Google
Google Inc. believes that its consumer-grade Web applications represent the future of enterprise IT. But while Google is quick to trumpet its products' innovative features, the search giant hasn't said much about their security. Until recently, that is.


AMD cuts chip prices, Intel expected to follow
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced its latest round of desktop processor price cuts on Monday, and rival Intel Corp. is expected to follow the move later this month.


Laptop PC sales hit records in June after Santa Rosa lull
Laptop PC shipments by the world's two largest contract makers surged in June, rebounding from a lull in April and part of May as system makers awaited the launch of Intel Corp.'s Santa Rosa laptop chips, an upgrade to its popular Centrino package.


Sprint Nextel bid talk 'groundless' says SK Telecom
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. Ltd. denied on Tuesday a local newspaper report that it is preparing a bid for Sprint Nextel Corp.


Microsoft customers sour on Software Assurance
IT procurement managers are finding that Microsoft Corp.'s Software Assurance maintenance program may not save them money as hoped, according to a survey by Forrester Research Inc.


TurboLinux to help translate Open XML for Asia
Microsoft Corp. is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc. to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and Chinese users.


SF Wi-Fi plan faces key votes
San Francisco city officials could bring the city's proposed Wi-Fi network closer to reality at two meetings this week as a key leader proposes significant changes to the plan.


CommVault's QiNetix gets new name and refresh
There will be no more duplicated files in storage managed by CommVault's QiNetix data management suite. The company has added security, indexing and search too, as well as renaming it Simpana.


Intel Capital to buy $218.5 million share of VMware
Intel Corp. said Monday it plans to buy a US$218.5 million stake in the software firm VMware Inc., bolstering the companies' existing agreement to run VMware's virtualization software on Intel's processors.


FEATURE

TB case highlights e-mail archiving trend
E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB).


ITWHIRLED

Shocker: Webcam actually helps personal security
Remember all those Webcam ads whose text implied that they were a security measure but whose pictures all features women in bikinis for some reason? Well, a Portland man's Webcam actually helped him with the first thing, capturing images of the burglars who ransacked his house.