Irene's wrath leaves 6,500 cell towers out, FCC says
Updated figures released by federal officials on Monday showed 6,500 cell towers and sites were damaged or disrupted as a result of Hurricane Irene.
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Happy fifth birthday, cloud computing
Dell's unveiling of a cloud infrastructure today comes five years to the month after Amazon announced its Elastic Compute Cloud beta, which may well have been the first service to call itself a cloud.
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Microsoft 'ribbonizes' Windows 8 file manager
Microsoft on Monday said it will "ribbonize" the file manager in next year's Windows 8, adding Explorer to the short list of integrated applications that already sport the interface in Windows 7.
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Peer-to-peer, wireless network could help in disasters
A Georgia Tech professor envisions greater reliance on device-to-device communications using typical consumer phones after a disaster.
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Five good reasons to give Mandriva Linux 2011 a try
Canonical's Ubuntu may frequently dominate the headlines in the Linux world, but the fact remains that it's just one of many popular desktop distributions of the free and open source operating system.
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RAM pricing plunge is imminent, analyst says
The price of DDR3 memory used in laptops, desktops and servers will drop over the next two months as memory companies try to clear out excess inventory in a slowing PC market, IHS iSuppli said on Monday.
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Facebook shuts down Deals, boosts Photos
Facebook has decided to shut down its Deals feature after testing it for several months with big name brands like Gap, Starbucks, Macy's, JCPenney and American Eagle Outfitters.
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Red Cross comm team ready for disasters
While most businesses back up data and records as potential disasters approach, the American Red Cross has a communications and information systems infrastructure built to bring key data into areas ravaged by storms like Hurricane Irene.
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Irene takes out cell towers, disrupts communications
Communications networks took a hit from Hurricane Irene, as 1,400 cell towers and cell sites were damaged or disrupted -- mainly in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, the FCC said Monday.
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