Obama's Facebook town hall a sign of times to come
President Barack Obama's town hall event live on Facebook Wednesday thrust social networking into the political milieu just as the run up to the 2012 elections begin. Obama held a nearly hour-long town hall with audience members at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. late on Wednesday.
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Feds to use IT buying power to push green tech
The U.S. government has been urging green IT practices in its operations, consolidating data centers and offering telecommuting. Now it wants to go a step further and use its formidable buying power to encourage IT vendors to go green.
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Apple's Q2 profit soars on strong iPhone sales
Apple's revenue and profit soared in its fiscal second quarter ended March 26, buoyed by strong iPhone sales, the company said Wednesday. Apple reported a net profit of $5.99 billion for the quarter, growing from the $3.07 billion profit reported a year earlier. The company reported earnings per share of $6.40.
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Ubuntu Server geared for future clouds
The next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, due out April 28, will set the stage for the open-source operating system's greater usage in the enterprise cloud, company officials said. "People running private clouds will start really scaling those over the next several years. So what we care about is the ability to expand as customers deploy more and more servers into the cloud," said Steve George, Canonical's vice president of business development.
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iPhone revealed to track, log users' locations
You may not know where you're going in life, but you always know where you've been -- and so does your iPhone. According to a story in The Guardian on Wednesday, the iPhone (and the 3G-enabled iPad) keeps a running log of its location and copies that information to your home computer whenever you connect to it. As such, the information -- complete with latitude, longitude, and timestamps -- can be easily reconstructed to show a person's movements.
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Gartner: BI, analytics software spending jumps 13.4 percent
Global spending on BI (business intelligence), analytics and performance management applications jumped 13.4 percent in 2010 to $10.5 billion, according to figures released Wednesday by analyst firm Gartner. The results reflect the BI market's continued strength throughout the world's economic downturn, as customers looked to such software to find efficiencies and gain competitive advantage.
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Update: DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents
Microsoft will not be able to keep patents it proposed to buy from Novell under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Novell, distributor of the Suse Linux OS, has agreed to change its proposed deal to sell patents to CPTN Holdings, a Microsoft-organized consortium of companies, in order to satisfy DOJ concerns about the impact on open-source software, the DOJ said.
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Fedora dons the new Gnome
The next version of Fedora will be the first major Linux distribution to use the radically updated Gnome as its default desktop interface. This OS, whose beta version was released Tuesday, will also feature a reworked boot loading system.
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Intel's Q1 boosted by strong demand for data center products
Intel reported growth in revenue and income for the first quarter of 2011, driven by the addition of new products and strength in the enterprise market. The company reported net income of $3.2 billion on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis for the quarter ended on April 2, up 29 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company reported earnings per share of $0.56.
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