Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks

Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's “core competencies”, with the aim of creating a networking operating system that is more intelligent and contextualised. [...]

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Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn’t so anonymous

Data routinely gathered in Web logs – IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings – can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say. [...]

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RainStor releases next-gen big data repository
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Lenovo to upgrade ThinkPad Tablet to Android 4.0 in Q2

Lenovo plans to upgrade its popular ThinkPad Tablet to the latest version of the Android 4.0 operating system in the second quarter this year, the company said on Monday. [...]

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Lenovo Releases New Windows 7 ThinkPad Laptops
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Startup Piston ‘ready for fight’ with VMware

Having just released its new cloud operating system, Piston Cloud Computing finds itself in a contentious position — and company co-founder Josh McKenty says that is exactly where the company wants to be. [...]

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AT&T offers cloud-based computing capacity
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Microsoft gives details on mobile broadband improvements in Windows 8

Microsoft has given details on a variety of ways in which the upcoming Windows 8 operating system does a better job than its predecessors at letting users manage their connections to Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks. [...]

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Windows Phone Live Details Emerge: What We Know So Far
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Bada merger with Tizen OS not definite, says Samsung

Samsung Electronics appears to be backtracking from earlier reports that said it was merging its own bada mobile platform with the Intel-backed Tizen operating system, stating on Wednesday that no decision on the merger has been made. [...]

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NSA releases a security-enhanced version of Android

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released SE Android, a security-enhanced version of Android, which provides and enforces stricter access-control policies than those found in the popular mobile operating system by default. [...]

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Sprint’s Android updates highlight fragmentation
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Vizio’s new 10-inch tablet to have Intel chip, Android

A new tablet from Vizio will come with Intel's upcoming Atom chip, code-named Medfield, and will run Google's Android operating system, a source with knowledge of the product plans said. [...]

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Windows 8 can scrub data from disk, but not up to tough security specifications

Windows 8 includes a reset function that restores the operating system to a clean state and scrubs data applications from the disk, but falls short of making that data unrecoverable, according to Microsoft. [...]

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Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers

Microsoft’s Windows XP lost a big chunk of usage share last month as users continued to desert the aging operating system for Windows 7. [...]

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