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Google officially unveils Android 2.4 in San Francisco

Google unveiled Android 2.4 (deliciously nicknamed "Ice Cream Sandwich") at this morning's keynote at Google I/O in San Francisco. Ice Cream Sandwich brings the best features of Honeycomb to mobile phones. Still, other than a few intriguing demos, Google did not disclose many details about the update such as when it will be available to consumers.
Android dominates Google I/O developer conference

The expansion of Android from smartphones to tablets, TVs and desktop computers impressed developers attending the Google I/O conference, with one attendee predicting that Google's other operating system, Chrome OS, is doomed.
Dell to extend virtualised data centre line

At the Interop trade show this week, Dell will expand its networking, server and storage product lines to help users migrate from legacy data centres to those more heavily reliant on virtualisation.
Data centres look to alternative power sources

Data centre power usage is soaring - the US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that data centre energy requirements will double in the next five years. To address that surge in energy use, some companies are turning to alternative sources of energy, including solar arrays, natural gas turbines, wind power, fuel cells and hydro power. But one big question is whether these power sources will deliver a return on investment in the near future.
Google to launch cloud-based music service

Google is expected to announce Tuesday its new music service, that will allow users to store their music online, according to reports.
Google to highlight Android and Chrome at Google I/O conference

Google's biggest developer platforms will take center stage at Google I/O.
Alcatel-Lucent to sell enterprise business, report claims

Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly shopping around its enterprise switching, IP telephony and contact centre businesses in an effort to boost its financial performance by focusing on core telecom markets.
JavaOne conference to go-ahead in October

The conference will be held at the same time as Oracle OpenWorld, but Oracle says JavaOne will be a standalone event
Xiotech adds intelligent storage management to blade

Xiotech?s new entry level storage blade will integrate controller functions.
IBM says own DB2 database to remain proprietary

The company says it has internal give and take between Linux and OSes like Windows, but has no plans to open source its DB2 database

Latest Features

Apple plans to democratise servers with its Mac OS X strategy

Recently, Apple previewed more features that will be available in its upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.7, "Lion." We first got a glimpse of Lion at Apple's Back to the Mac event in October, when CEO Steve Jobs said that several technologies developed in Apple's iOS mobile operating system would be brought back into Mac OS X as part of Lion. Since iOS evolved from earlier versions of Mac OS X, the "back to the Mac" moniker made sense.
Top data visualisation and management tools

You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualisation useful, whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text or to try to explain complex issues to a non-technical audience.
Solving Windows 7 crashes with debugging tools

Everything is perfect; you've upgraded to Windows 7. It's fully patched, all drivers are updated, security is tight, maybe you even have new hardware... yet the old Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) taunts you from your new high definition-screen.
Four top iOS tools for professional IT admins

Gibbs has more IT tools for the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone.
Hands on with the iPad 2

Immediately after Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco, he invited members of the media to visit a special hands-on area right behind the theatre, the same setup Apple used a year ago to introduce the original iPad.
Facebook and Twitter pose a security threat for enterprise

Companies that communicate with customers via Facebook and Twitter must protect sensitive data, SugarCRM official notes at JasperSoft conference.
Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars

Wikipedia and its users are planning more than 300 celebration events across six continents for the 10th anniversary of the free, online encyclopedia that has become an Internet juggernaut by spreading access to information with a model that lets anyone edit its articles.
The 10 IT-related predictions for 2011

We were wrong - so far - that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO by the end of this year, but we were right that Apple's tablet, whose name wasn't known at the end of last year, would be huge. OK, so that second one was probably a given, but not all of our 2010 predictions were so easy. We think the same is true with our 2011 predictions.
Oracle to continue supporting Lustre

While a number of small companies have been ramping up support for a file system called Lustre that Oracle acquired in its Sun Microsystems purchase earlier this year, Oracle itself has no plans to abandon the technology, a company executive told the IDG News Service in an interview.
How industrial Ethernet helped rescue Chilean miners

A hardened Ethernet switch was used to help evaluate conditions in the San Jose mine in Chile just before rescue operations commenced to free the 33 trapped miners

How-tos

Virtualisation security and how best to achieve it

Using Groupon and its competitors

How to protect against Firesheep hijacking on Facebook and Twitter

What you'll pay for in-flight WiFi

How to write a data storage policy

Facebook Ad secrets exposed from an insider

How to build a solid server virtualisation foundation

How to make money selling your old tech

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