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Monday, August 16, 2010



Weekly Ten (8-16-2010)

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:42 AM PDT

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:


1. Google prepares for battle with Facebook
Through acquisitions, investments and internal development, Google is piecing together the makings of a social networking infrastructure – one explicitly designed to challenge Facebook, which has quickly emerged as one of the most potent forces on the web.
More @ FT.com

2. Stupid data center tricks
A university network brought to its knees when someone inadvertently plugged two network cables into the wrong hub. An employee injured after an ill-timed entry into a data center. Overheated systems shut down after a worker changes a data center thermostat setting from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
More @ ComputerWorld

3. Ont. parents suspect Wi-Fi making kids sick
A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children's schools turn off wireless internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick.
More @ CBCNews

4. Launchpad programming with Linux

More @ HackaDay

5. Oracle on the Warpath
Oracle filed a patent lawsuit against Google this week, claiming that the Android operating system infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java. I doubt that many observers were surprised, and in fact there is a loud chorus of "Told you so".
More @ LinuxToday

6. Dual-core smartphones on the horizon
Smartphones are on the verge of becoming more powerful, with chip makers readying dual-core chips that could accelerate multimedia and application performance on handheld devices.
More @ NetworkWorld

7. StarCraft 2 sales blitz a success: sales crush console games
There may be some flaws in StarCraft 2, but the market doesn't seem to care: the game has taken the number one sales slot in the United States in July, well above the best-selling console games. In fact, if you take the sales of NCAA Football 11 on both platforms and combine them, you get 692,000 units sold. Single-platform title StarCraft 2 sold 721,000 units.
More @ ArsTechnica

8. LG's 3D office projectors are ready to entertain the staff

More @ Engadget

9. Closing the Server-Storage Virtualization Gap
Now that hypervisors are mature management tools, monitoring capabilities and standards are evolving. Resources in the cloud are more dynamic, multi-tenant and large-scale. However, full data center virtualization and the cloud cannot be complete without virtualizing the storage layer. Storage virtualization demands an entirely new software-based approach.
More @ LinuxInsider

10. Top 10 Cryptids That Turned Out to be Real
Cryptozoology, the study of "hidden animals", concerns itself with animals whose existence has not yet been recognized by mainstream science. These animals, known as "cryptids", are often the stuff of legends, written off as myths or elaborate hoaxes. Some famous cryptids are Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and El Chupacabra, all of which remain shrouded in mystery.
More @ Listverse

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