Elgan: Why Starbucks will win the Wi-Fi wars
Wi-Fi is good for business if it's part of a big chain like Starbucks. For a mom-and-pop coffee shop, Wi-Fi can be a loser. Mike Elgan explains why.
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Summer of Android: Top 5 iPhone rivals
Why go to Steve Jobs' walled garden when you can enter the open world of Android? Here's a visual tour of five top-of-the-line smartphones that give the iPhone a run for its money.
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Oracle signals an end to OpenSolaris
Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.
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Bugs & Fixes: Recovering lost contacts
I sync my calendar and contacts data across my Mac and all my iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) using the MobileMe option. On most days, this works spectacularly well. It means that, whenever I make a data change on any one of the devices, the change is propagated nearly instantly to every other synced device.
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Don't get burned – Put some SPF 50 on your business continuity/disaster recovery plan
On vacation, forgetting your sunscreen may lead to a painful burn, but forgetting key components of an organization's business continuity (BC)/disaster recovery (DR) plan hurts a lot more. Overlooking even one item can weaken your entire network and mean significant losses in revenue and productivity.
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Budget ultraportable laptops
Laptops are getting faster, more portable and cheaper as the back-to-school season rolls in. A new range of lightweight laptops from PC makers priced between US$400 to $600 are as portable as netbooks but offer much better performance.
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Hurd out at HP, Oracle goes after Android
The reign of Hewlett-Packard's former CEO Mark Hurd was bookended by scandal -- only where the first one, in which the HP board was caught spying on journalists and others, allowed Hurd to consolidate power and nab the chairman's job, the second has sent him packing. Meanwhile, Oracle has sued Google, claiming that the Android mobile OS infringes on patents it acquired from Sun Microsystems.
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Friday the 13th, Part II: Oracle Officially Ends OpenSolaris
Well, Oracle seems determined to make this a memorable Friday the 13th. Just as the open source community reels from the impact of an Oracle lawsuit against Google for alleged Java patent infringements, it has now been revealed that Oracle has internally killed OpenSolaris.
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Google calls Oracle lawsuit 'baseless,' vows to fight it
Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.
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A CIO's journey to proactive IT
The belief that IT professionals don't need business acumen is a dangerous and destructive myth.
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