Oops, Gates gets it wrong ... When no password can be best ... Greatest hits of viral video

In this issue:
- Oops, Gates gets it wrong
- Tip: When no password can be best
- Apple could build Penryn into Xserve
- Greatest hits of viral video
- VeriSign to divest several lines of business
- Sun joins virtualization fray with xVM
- Win a Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt!


TODAY'S NEWS

Apple could build Penryn into Xserve
While Apple is tight-lipped about the introduction of new Mac systems with Intel's latest Penryn processors, analysts said the company's Unix-based Xserve servers could be the first to include the power-efficient Penryn chips.

Oops, Gates gets it wrong
Bill Gates misspoke while speaking during Microsoft's shareholder meeting, pointing to the challenge around his move to spend less time working for the company.

VeriSign to divest several lines of business
VeriSign plans to refocus its business on its two core activities, managing DNS infrastructure and selling SSL security certificates for Web sites.

Leopard mauls competition, takes half Japan retail market
Apple's new Leopard operating system took a sizable bite of the Japanese retail operating system market during October and accounted for over half of all sales of packaged operating system software despite being on sale for only the last six days of the month.

Sun joins virtualization fray with xVM
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz unveiled the company's virtualization product line, xVM, at Oracle's OpenWorld conference. XVM consists of two components: xVM Server, a hypervisor with support for Linux, Solaris and Windows guest operating systems; and xVM Ops Center, a management console.

Nortel, with IBM's help, unveils SOA strategy
Nortel this week announced a relationship with IBM to plot a service-oriented architecture and Web services framework for the development of communications-enabled applications and business processes.

Greatest hits of viral video
There's no formula for creating a video that millions of people will be inspired to watch and tell their friends about, but if there were, it would have to include some portion of humor (often unintentional), embarrassment, obscenity, and plain old goofiness. Since the advent of YouTube in 2005, many viral videos have been made, but few surpass the popularity of these 25, um, classics.

IBM: Most Symphony users are Microsoft customers
IBM Tuesday released the second beta of its Symphony rival suite to Microsoft Office, claiming that 88 percent of its users are Microsoft customers

AT&T mobile banking goes nationwide
AT&T fulfilled its promise of nationwide mobile banking on Tuesday, rolling out a service for customers of two banks that uses an application residing on the user's handset.

Apple's new phones lead to iTypos
iPhone users make mistakes more often when texting compared to users of phones with hard keys, a new study found.


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When no password can be best
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