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Why Apple Should Be Worried About SongbirdOpen in New Window
Earlier this week, the open-source music player built on Mozilla technology, Songbird, finally made its 1.0 release. After being in development for two years, this version feels like the kind of soli read more »
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Why MSPs?Open in New Window
Managed Service Providers are one of the types of businesses that are seeing benefits from the economic situation. Now, about 63% of businesses use some third-party service to help serve branch locat read more »
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Why Government Should Meddle in BroadbandOpen in New Window
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Why Twitter Didn’t Sell to Facebook — ReallyOpen in New Window
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Why we need to automate WAN managementOpen in New Window
In most cases, when IT organizations think about increasing the availability of the WAN they think of implementing fault tolerant network devices, diverse routes through the network and fast failover protocols. Relative to improving WAN availability, those steps are necessary but not sufficient.Also important is automating tasks that currently are highly manual, repetitive and time consuming and reducing the number of WAN management tools in your organization. read more »
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Why Cache Matters in NAS PerformanceOpen in New Window
Don Capps writes, "One of the confusing aspects of NAS performance is the significant impact of caches. Today's computing systems have multiple caches, not only in the main system RAM, but in the client, the server and client CPUs, and hard drives themselves. Each cache is aimed at reducing the time it takes to access frequently-used data." read more »
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Why can't they fix the Flash/Firefox bug?Open in New Window
Rafe Needleman writes, "The bug is that Flash videos don't play for certain Firefox 3 users on Windows XP or Vista, when using the current Flash player version 9. On YouTube, CNET TV, and other sites, embedded videos will start, but they halt after two seconds. Both Mozilla and Adobe have been aware of the issue since late May, but as yet no solution has been found. For some people suffering from this bug, it's intermittent. For others, it's a consistent block to viewing online videos." read more »
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Why Yahoo Japan Is Worth Nearly As Much As YahooOpen in New Window
"Yahoo's stake in Yahoo Japan is often cited as one of its most valuable assets, and indeed Yahoo is considering selling it as a quick fix to appease angry shareholders in the U.S." read more »
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