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Dell Joins Microsoft, Yahoo for Riverside Data-Center Party
Dell has joined the data center party in Quincy, Washington. Quincy is home to data centers run by Microsoft, Yahoo and Intuit, and this week, Dell announced that it too has opened a facility in the tiny town on the Columbia river. Dams along the Columbia river, you see, provide relatively expensive hydropower for these massive computing facilities. But perhaps more importantly, the state of Washington has provided tax breaks for tech giants building data centers in the region.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 17
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.17.12
HP's Whitman Slags Android to Pump WebOS
On Wednesday, at a meeting of the company's channel partners in Las Vegas, HP CEO Meg Whitman talked up Open WebOS, the company's newly open sourced mobile operating system. But she also took a moment to stir up a batch of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Google¿s Android. The mobile operating system ¿may end up being a closed system with their purchase of Motorola," she said. Whitman also described Android as "remarkably fragmented."
02.16.12
Mountain Lion vs. Windows 8: Two Paths to Platform Convergence
Now that Apple's offered a sneak preview of OS X Mountain Lion, we can begin to compare it with Windows 8. Both OSes draw inspiration from, and aim to integrate with, mobile devices. Each OS faces the same basic challenge, but approaches the problem with different strategies.
02.16.12
Researchers Fight Toxic Waste With Google PageRank
According to a paper published in Journal of Computational Chemistry, the same math used to determine the relevance of webpages on Google's search engine can also be used to determine crucial information about a water molecule's position in a solution of charged chemicals -- particularly toxic chemicals. For chemists, the finding is more than just a curiosity. It's a crucial step in determining the best ways to remove nuclear waste and other toxic chemicals from the world's water supply.
02.16.12
Rackspace Buys SharePoint911: A Game-Changer?
Boasting, "The game just changed," the cloud giant Rackspace Hosting today announced it has bought SharePoint911. Why? Think serious SharePoint cred with Microsoft SharePoint users. But is it a game-changer?
02.16.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 16
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.16.12
Apple Says Grabbing Address Book Data Is an iOS Policy Violation
Last week, it came to light that Path, a social media app for iOS, was storing user address-book data without first requesting permission. Today, Apple announced the app's actions were against policy.
02.15.12
Cisco Wraps Microsoft Skype Deal in Red Tape
Just when it looked like things were all sewn up for Microsoft's $8.5 billion Skype acquisition, Cisco has launched a last-minute appeal, asking the European Commission to step in and do what it does best: regulate.
02.15.12
Hands On: Motorola Droid 4 Pushes Most of the Right Buttons
The Droid 4 -- which just landed on our doorstep this morning -- carries on the Droid brand tradition by focusing on the keyboard as the phone's most polished feature.
02.15.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 15
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.15.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 14
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.14.12
Ubuntu Linux Dresses Up For Biz Desktops
Canonical -- the commercial outfit behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution -- is offering a version of the open source operating system meant specifically for desktop PCs inside the world's businesses. "Ubuntu has been hot-rodded for business," says Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon.
02.13.12
Regulators Bless Google/Motorola Marriage
Google on Monday won approval for its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Inc. in both Europe and the United States, a decision that could have wide-ranging implications on the Silicon Valley giant¿s ability to take on rivals like Apple, RIM and Microsoft.
02.13.12
Gadget Lab Podcast: Path's Privacy 'Whoops' and iPad 3 Speculation
02.13.12
Installing Debian Linux on Oracle VirtualBox
02.13.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 13
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02.13.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 12
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.12.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 11
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.11.12
A Dollar for Your Thoughts: Silicon Valley's Famed Single-Digit Salaries
02.10.12
Yahoo to Build Secret Servers in Nebraska
Yahoo is hoping to build a facility in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, where it will assemble its own servers and ship them to data centers it operates across the country, according to lawmakers and officials in the Midwestern state. These lawmakers have proposed a bill that would provide this facility with tax breaks, and though Yahoo has discussed its plans in full, the Nebraska bill opens another window onto how the web's biggest names juggle the massive amounts of servers needed to run their myriad online services.
02.10.12
Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
02.10.12
Meet Windows on ARM, Microsoft's New Tablet Platform
02.10.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 10
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.10.12
Report: Google is Working on a Streaming Music System
02.09.12
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 9
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
02.09.12
Adobe Splashes Out With Creative Cloud
Adobe is making a big splash into the cloud with its Creative Cloud service, launching an enhanced online version of its sought-after Adobe Creative Suite for $50 a month on a one-year contract.
02.08.12

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