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	B is for browser: An homage to 12 Web greats In honor of Mosaic's 20th birthday, join us for an alphabetical appreciation of 12 of history's great windows on the Web. Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat The Five Must-Haves of Big Data Storage Join this webinar to learn four distinct factors contributing to the challenge of storing big data including volume, variety, scale, and portability. We'll also cover the five elements a storage system must have in order to meet these challenges. View Now In this Issue Russian dashboard cameras, YouTube beam meteor explosion worldwide Micron releases smallest 128Gbit flash chip Oracle blasts Forrester report on Fusion Applications adoption Buffalo sets Feb. launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive Judge wants second Apple-Samsung case put on hold PC epicenter moving to Asia as Dell, HP regroup Egypt official says YouTube ban not viable Facebook wins first IPO shareholder case Opera to buy Skyfire Labs for faster mobile video delivery Online sales tax bills gather major congressional support Certificate Authorities to push for better certificate-revocation checking Reddit to accept bitcoin for premium service Preston Gralla: Microsoft will lose $2.5 billion a year if it doesn't launch Office for the iPad, says Morgan Stanley Richi Jennings: SHOCK! Opera makes piles of cash; buys Skyfire Labs WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange Microsoft Exchange is the most widely used e-mail system in the world. Yet it is still subject to many of the limitations inherent in most applications running directly on physical hardware. View Now! Russian dashboard cameras, YouTube beam meteor explosion worldwide As jumbled news reports of what appeared to be a meteor shower over Russia trickled out of the country, some of the best views of what happened were from the dashboards of Russian cars. Read More Micron releases smallest 128Gbit flash chip Micron has introduced what it said is the industry's smallest 128Gbit NAND-flash chip using Micron's 20 nanometer process technology, which is targeted at low-cost removable storage devices. Read More Oracle blasts Forrester report on Fusion Applications adoption Oracle is firing back hard at a recently released Forrester Research report that suggested most customers aren't interested in moving up to the vendor's next-generation Fusion Applications, which were released about a year-and-a-half ago following a long and expensive development process. Read More Buffalo sets Feb. launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world's fastest transfer speed. Read More Judge wants second Apple-Samsung case put on hold The judge overseeing Apple's two lawsuits against Samsung in California has indicated she would like to put the second case on hold pending resolution of the first case, the trial for which ended last summer with a big win for Apple. Read More PC epicenter moving to Asia as Dell, HP regroup Asia is fast becoming the epicenter of the PC market as Chinese and Taiwanese companies challenge the turf occupied for more than a decade by prominent U.S. PC makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell, whose laptop and desktop shipments are stumbling. Read More Egypt official says YouTube ban not viable Egypt's telecom regulator says it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block YouTube in the country, and is appealing the ruling. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation A Deep Dive into Virtualization Optimization This reference guide provides an in-depth look at best practices for improving server virtualization, exploring client virtualization options, blade migration, storage virtualization and WAN optimization techniques. Learn More. Facebook wins first IPO shareholder case Facebook scored an initial legal victory in its IPO case following a federal judge's dismissal of a group of investor lawsuits filed against the company. Read More Opera to buy Skyfire Labs for faster mobile video delivery Browser developer Opera Software will acquire Skyfire Labs, which develops technology to speed video delivery over mobile networks, the companies said Friday. Read More Online sales tax bills gather major congressional support A large group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales tax for state and local governments, essentially raising the cost of many online purchases by 10 percent or more. Read More Certificate Authorities to push for better certificate-revocation checking Several Certificate Authorities (CAs) have formed an advocacy group called the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), which will focus on promoting new security standards, policies and best practices for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) deployment on the Web. Read More Reddit to accept bitcoin for premium service The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft will lose $2.5 billion a year if it doesn't launch Office for the iPad, says Morgan Stanley Microsoft will forgo serious revenue if it doesn't launch a full-blown version of Office for the iPad -- an estimated $2.5 billion a year, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst. Even though the math is wrong, don't be surprised to eventually see Office for the iPad, no matter what Steve Ballmer has recently said. Read More Richi Jennings: SHOCK! Opera makes piles of cash; buys Skyfire Labs Opera Software acquires Skyfire Labs. The browser-maker Opera Software (PINK:OPESF) had a barnstorming quarter and is to purchase the video-compression outfit, Skyfire Labs. Skyfire's CEO (pictured) seems happy. Mind you, your humble blogwatcher didn't even know that Opera made any money at all. Like many of us, I assumed the company gave away its software for the love of it. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers work out where all the money comes from. Read More
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