Citrix to acquire XenSource for $500M ... Yahoo replaces Google as top portal

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News: Citrix to acquire XenSource for $500M
News: Researchers use ionic wind to keep chips cool
News: VMware the bright spot on a gray Wall Street day
News: Vulnerability uncovered within Yahoo Messenger
News: Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO
Windows Tip: Annotating web content
Podcast: Today's IT news update
ITwhirled: Bloggers eye union membership


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Citrix to acquire XenSource for $500M
Citrix Systems Inc. plans to acquire virtualization vendor XenSource Inc. for approximately $500 million to enable the application delivery software vendor to enter both the server and desktop virtualization markets.

Researchers use ionic wind to keep chips cool
Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated an ionic wind engine that promises to reduce the heat generated by semiconductors at a substantially faster rate than is possible with traditional cooling technologies.

VMware the bright spot on a gray Wall Street day
VMware Inc.'s initial public offering of stock was a happy side note to a tough day on Wall Street Tuesday.

Vulnerability uncovered within Yahoo Messenger
A new vulnerability in Yahoo Inc.'s instant messenger program can potentially cause unwanted code to run on a PC, according to security researchers.

Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO
Now that it has scored a major win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc. has no interest in becoming like the company it just defeated and won't mount any copyright-infringement claims over Unix, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Ask a penguin to see which way Linux wind blows
The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects.

Gartner predicts strong interest in software as service
Software as a service is forecast by Gartner to grow at 22.1 percent until 2011 for the aggregate enterprise application software markets -- more than double the 9 percent growth rate expected in the market as a whole.

Hosting customers say no to shared servers
Hosting providers offering virtual servers could be barking up the wrong tree, according to Rackspace. Virtualization is not yet ready for the big time, and is unlikely to save its users money, the hosting company claimed.


WINDOWS TIP

Annotating web content
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

It's easy to annotate a Word doc with Ink, but what if I need to annotate a Web page? For example, say there's a long Microsoft Knowledge Base article I need to read through and annotate -- how I can I annotate a Web page? I've been doing it the hard way until I discovered this trick.

Read the full article here.


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ITWHIRLED

Bloggers eye union membership
A cadre of left-leaning (and, somewhat bafflingly, self-employed) bloggers is seeking to form or join a union. "You're constantly scanning for news. Your arm and neck and shoulder are wearing out because you're constantly using a mouse," says one, justifying the push for unionization. Keep your eyes peeled for pajama-clad persons forming picket lines of one in front of their own homes.

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