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Microsoft virtualization technology still has uphill battle vs. VMware, but third-party support making Hyper-V more alluring to customers About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V…
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Excel power user flags down this passing pilot fish to help with her PC, where she has a spreadsheet open. “She was trying to copy out information from this spreadsheet someone had sent to her,” says fish. “When she pressed Ctrl+C, the spreadsheet flickered a few times, and all the data vanished. “I replicated it…
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If you’ve heard about Cloud based onDemand Gaming service OnLive, you might already understand what Future of Cloud based apps and games would look like. OnLive is a step forward in earadicating requirement of high-end PC hardware for Gaming. All the complex graphics, computation and memory intensive processes from 3D Gaming can be offloaded to…
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Analysts believe Microsoft won’t dare charge for this year’s update to Windows 8, but one is certain it will for future annual releases Sometime in the coming weeks, Microsoft will tell Windows 8 users whether they will have to pay for the upgrade code-named “Blue,” and if so, how much. While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on…
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The Android app has been available for about a month Facebook has attracted “just about” 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability. The app, which takes the place of the home screen on supported devices, puts Facebook much more at the center of the phone. Rather than an app…
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The update to Windows 8 will be delivered across a variety of form factors and display sizes Microsoft’s update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows Blue, will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors and display sizes, and providing more options for both businesses and consumers. “The Windows Blue…
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Hacks, false information have some questioning Twitter’s resolve Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an “information-sharing network” are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around. It may not sound like…
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Latest legal maneuver will open the way to appeal massive award granted to patent-holding firm VirnetX Apple will challenge a November 2012 jury verdict that awarded $368 million in damages to Nevada patent-holding company VirnetX, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. In a Form 10-Q filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
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Nearly half of phishing attacks seen during the second half of 2012 involved the use of hacked shared hosting servers, APWG report says Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven…
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QUESTION 1 You work as a database administrator at Certkingdom.com. You are in the process of preparing the deployment of a new database that will have 45 gigabytes storage space for the transaction log file, and 280 gigabytes storage space for the database data file. There are approximately six 120 GB disk drives available for…