Cognos buys Applix for $339M ... Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium ... Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor

In this issue:

* Cognos to pay $339 million for Applix
* Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium for $300 million
* Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor
* Star student Cisco set to meet analysts
* Gateway to sell professional unit to MPC
* Serious flaw marks end of life for Bind 8 DNS server
* Dunes unveils SMB-ready virtual appliances
* Cisco brings out fast Wi-Fi 802.11n after all
* Oracle buys Bridgestream for employee role mapping
* A pack of pages
* The Software-as-a-Service Primer
* Huge furry creature wields weapon at airport, security uninterested


TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Cognos to pay $339 million for Applix

Business performance software vendor Cognos Inc. has agreed to buy Applix Inc., a developer of performance analysis software, and plans to integrate the companies' products by early next year.


NEWS
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Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium for $300 million

Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor

Star student Cisco set to meet analysts

Gateway to sell professional unit to MPC

Serious flaw marks end of life for Bind 8 DNS server

Dunes unveils SMB-ready virtual appliances

Cisco brings out fast Wi-Fi 802.11n after all

Oracle buys Bridgestream for employee role mapping


OPINION
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A pack of pages
By James Gaskin, ITworld.com

While talking to some Xerox people about their printers using Solid Ink technology, they kept telling me about PagePack. At first I thought that was a clever marketing term for a ream of paper, but it's really their way to help companies manage and monitor printing costs by charging by the produced page. That's all you pay: a price per page, and for paper, and the price includes all supplies and support. This program applies to only certain copiers and printers, so check the details.

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FEATURE
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The Software-as-a-Service Primer
Rapid deployment, cost savings, and freeing up IT staff are just a few of the benefits of software as a service (SaaS), yet it is a trend that makes many CIOs nervous. As with Web 2.0 technologies and other Web-based applications, SaaS -- also known as Web-hosted or on-demand software -- takes control out of the IT department and puts it in the hands of an outside vendor.


ITWHIRLED
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Huge furry creature wields weapon at airport, security uninterested

NASA is going to be shooting the original light saber prop from Star Wars into space! All well and good ... but did we really need Chewbacca to hand the thing over to NASA at Oakland Airport? Or a cordon of Stormtroopers to escort it in Houston?

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TODAY'S POLL
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The first computer I ever owned...

* Ran Windows XP/Vista
* Ran Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000
* Ran Windows 3.x
* Ran DOS
* Ran OS X
* Ran the Classic Mac OS
* Was made by Commodore
* Was made by Atari
* Took up the better part of a room

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