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by Davey Winder
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Virtualisation is certainly one of the hot technologies of the moment, and VMware is certainly at the top of the vendor tree. Today it announced a grand plan to help cement that position in the face of emerging competition from the likes of Microsoft: giving away its number one Hypervisor product for free...
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by Davey Winder
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Symantec has today announced the opening of a new 'Virtualisation Solutions Labs' in Japan as part of an ongoing global virtualisation strategy...
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by Stan Beer
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The still nascent podcast phenomenon is set to explode driven by the emergence of the massively popular Apple iPhone, according to one of the world's leading social networkers. One of the keys will be the adoption of the iPhone by business users.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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If you’ve been hoping that Virgin Mobile would soon sell the iPhone,
partially because it’s owned by Optus, and partially because it has
cheap data rates, rumours suggest it could soon happen.
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by Tony Austin
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Virtualization is all the rage these days. As well as the advantages, there
are things to be watched and managed. Virtualized systems can grow and consume
excessive system resources. Here are some test results about a way of reducing
disk space (and other things) used by Microsoft Virtual PC running on a desktop
system.
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by Davey Winder
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So it seems that Apple is finally starting to listen to the numerous complaints which, to be brutally frank, have turned into something of a media feeding frenzy over the last couple of weeks. But can blogging every other day and opening stores a couple of hours early really dig Apple out of this nightmare customer service hole?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The TechCrunch “Mobile Web Wars Roundtable” brought forth an interesting
stat from Facebook: it has 1m people using the new Facebook app, so a
strong transition seems to be taking place from the old web app.
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by Stan Beer
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While enterprises focus on using virtualisation to cut costs through consolidating servers in the data centres, the home and consumer desktop space has been largely ignored. But is it important for home users to have virtualisation on the desktop?
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by Mike Bantick
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There are many good reasons for companies to virtualise environments, but make sure you do your homework, planning and don’t believe everything consultants tell you. A virtualisation case study of how to avoid cost blowouts follows.
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by Davey Winder
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Does your dream job involve developing proof of concept attacks on iPhone security? Have you been involved with reverse engineering and security communities online? Yes, if you want to hack the iPhone for a living then Apple wants to hear from you...
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Some iPhone developers have started getting access to the beta version
of the upcoming iPhone OS 2.1, an upgrade to the existing bug-filled
iPhone OS 2.0 that’s been causing angst among iPhone users around the
world. Is turn by turn GPS coming in 2.1, alongside cut and paste in
future OS versions?
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by Stuart Corner
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Through the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand have implemented VMware's virtualisation technology.
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by Stuart Corner
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German company Zimory has launched what it claims to be the world's first online marketplace where organisations can buy and sell processing capacity on their virtualised data centre servers.
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by Stephen Withers
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An unpatched vulnerability in the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications helps conceal phishing attacks, according to a high profile security researcher who specialises in finding flaws in widely used software. Aviv Raff has previously identified security flaws in software from Apple, Microsoft, Google and other vendors.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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If you’ve been waiting for the Windows version of the PwnageTool to
arrive, your wait is over, your time has come, and iPhone OS 2.0 could
soon be yours – but is iPhone OS 2.0 truly worth it?
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by Stephen Withers
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Want to use an iPhone to deliver data to your notebook or other device? Apple and the phone companies didn't want us to have this capability, but smart users have found a way.
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by Stephen Withers
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AT&T has demonstrated a speech recognition web service that can be used in conjunction with devices such as the iPhone and other smartphones, and web-connected set top boxes.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Hi Apple! I love the iPhone, but you’ve seriously screwed things up
with iPhone OS 2.0 – an operating system that is reminding me of the
original OS X 10.0 and the new 10.5.x in its bugginess, an OS that
desperately needs updating to a more stable version. Can we hurry it
up, please?
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