Apple: The cell phone 'Soup Nazi'

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'Dynamic' businesses will survive recession, Microsoft says
At its Convergence conference in New Orleans, Microsoft pledged to see its customers through the recession.

Microsoft to switch cloud SQL Server from Web APIs to relational one
Microsoft said its upcoming hosted database service will switch from standard Web programming interfaces to the same relational one used by its on-premise counterpart.

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HP, Microsoft Offer Deals to Help Stretch IT Dollars
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are offering deals to drum up business among customers who may be cutting back on spending during the recession.

Global Dispatches
A Scottish police force lost a flash memory card containing data compiled during hundreds of investigations; and Perot Systems plans to open a fourth BPO facility in Chennai, India.

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Microsoft to shut down its adCenter Analytics service
Microsoft said it has stopped seeking new beta users for its adCenter Analytics service and will shut down the Web analytics service for online advertisers and publishers at the end of the year.

Microsoft: IE8 faster than Firefox, Chrome
Microsoft said this week that its own speed tests prove Internet Explorer 8 is faster than either Firefox or Chrome -- even as it stressed that benchmarks can't fully measure browser performance.

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Fed CIO Takes Leave After Arrest of Ex-Subordinate
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra took a leave from that job after the bribery-related arrests of a former subordinate in the District of Columbia's IT department and the CEO of an outsourcing contractor.

Bill Would Clarify Rules on Data Breach Disclosures
A co-author of California's groundbreaking breach-disclosure law has filed a bill that calls for providing more information about incidents to both consumers and government agencies.

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Motion says new rugged tablet PC's LED display is easy to read in bright sun
Motion Computing says its J9400 is tougher than its previous tablet PC and can run up to 7.5 hours using hot-swappable batteries.

Cisco Set to Unveil First Blade Server
Cisco Systems today will unveil a new "unified computing" initiative that analysts say includes a blade server code-named California.

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Fed CIO Takes Leave After Arrest of Ex-Subordinate
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra took a leave from that job after the bribery-related arrests of a former subordinate in the District of Columbia's IT department and the CEO of an outsourcing contractor.

HP, Microsoft Offer Deals to Help Stretch IT Dollars
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are offering deals to drum up business among customers who may be cutting back on spending during the recession.

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Motion says new rugged tablet PC's LED display is easy to read in bright sun
Motion Computing says its J9400 is tougher than its previous tablet PC and can run up to 7.5 hours using hot-swappable batteries.

Future shock: The PC of 2019
The PC of 2019? Think of a souped-up smartphone, with a monitor that unrolls into a larger screen and security unlocked with your thumbprint, with which you can access everything in your professional and personal life from anywhere, with all the data residing in the cloud.

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Motion says new rugged tablet PC's LED display is easy to read in bright sun
Motion Computing says its J9400 is tougher than its previous tablet PC and can run up to 7.5 hours using hot-swappable batteries.

Rob Carter
Fed Ex CIO Rob Carter talks about recession IT cleanups, the challenge of serving customers who don't have cutting-edge systems, and the promise of sensor and active RFID technologies.

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Microsoft: IE8 faster than Firefox, Chrome
Microsoft said this week that its own speed tests prove Internet Explorer 8 is faster than either Firefox or Chrome -- even as it stressed that benchmarks can't fully measure browser performance.

New Windows 7 build leaks to Web, may be RC
A Windows 7 build that could be the first release candidate of the upcoming OS has leaked to the Internet, according to several file-sharing sites.

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Companies Get Checklist On PCI Security Rules
The group that administers the PCI security rules has issued new compliance guidelines aimed at helping companies that still haven't met the requirements for securing payment card data.

Bill Would Clarify Rules on Data Breach Disclosures
A co-author of California's groundbreaking breach-disclosure law has filed a bill that calls for providing more information about incidents to both consumers and government agencies.

SERVERS AND DATA CENTER / more stories...

Cisco Set to Unveil First Blade Server
Cisco Systems today will unveil a new "unified computing" initiative that analysts say includes a blade server code-named California.

Securing Your Virtualized Environment
Virtualization's lure is increasing as IT departments in today's crashing economy are asked to do more with less. But resist the temptation to skimp on security.

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Heart to Heart
The Computerworld Honors program named the Byrraju Foundation the winner in the category for nonprofit organizations, for its innovative use of technology to deliver electrocardiograms, or EKGs, to rural Indians.

Microsoft to shut down its adCenter Analytics service
Microsoft said it has stopped seeking new beta users for its adCenter Analytics service and will shut down the Web analytics service for online advertisers and publishers at the end of the year.

STORAGE / more stories...

Fusion-io unveils SSD drives with 1.5GB throughput, 1.2TB capacity
Fusion-io today announced a new server SSD product that offers 1.5GB/sec. throughput, almost 200,000 IOPS and soon to be up to 1.2TB capacity.

Microsoft-led privacy group backs off legislation
A Microsoft-led group set up three years ago has backed away from its original goal of pushing for comprehensive U.S. privacy legislation.