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So does it fit a flatscreen TV, especially one at the lower end of screen sizes deemed suitable for a living room?… Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including the completion, sort of, of Windows Phone Secrets, Microsoft's re-commitment to slate PCs, why you should wait for 2011 for that slate PC, Microsoft's cloud experience, 8 core businesses for Microsoft but only one that matters, IE 9 public beta in September, iPhone 4 to plague 17 other countries today, and Apple's pointless new Mac gadget. Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott Online retailing giant Amazon this morning announced its third-generation Kindle eBook reader, which is smaller, lighter, and faster than its predecessor, while offering the same screen dimensions and 50 percent better contrast. Best of all for potential customers, the new Kindle is getting a significant price cut, with the base model costing just $139. SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 28, 2010 - Cisco today announced that its board of directors will offer a shareholder advisory vote on executive compensation during its next annual meeting scheduled for November 18, 2010. At the meeting, shareholders will be given the opportunity to provide input on the compensation of named executive officers by casting a non-binding vote. Cisco ... SAN JOSE, Calif, - July 28, 2010 - Cisco has scheduled a conference call for Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM (PT) to announce its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010 financial results for the quarter ending Saturday, July 31. Financial results will be released over Marketwire, as well as the European Business and Technical Wire after the close of the market on Wednesday, August 11, ... CHENGDU, China - July 28, 2010 - Cisco today delivered its 'Connecting Sichuan' year two report to the Sichuan provincial government, detailing the company's progress in collaborating with a multitude of local partners to improve the state of education and healthcare in the province after the devastating May 12th Wenchuan earthquake struck two years ago. At a meeting held jointly by Cisco and the ... Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, Microsoft and Adobe announced they were dramatically expanding their relationship in order to better protect users against electronic threats. Now, Adobe will provide vulnerability information about its products via Microsoft's Active Protections Program (MAPP) to security solution vendors News@Cisco: Cisco and NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware for the Dynamic Data Center SILICON VALLEY, Calif. - July 28, 2010 - As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced the industry's first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments. This combined solution supports FCoE end-to-end to reduce the number of devices and cables needed and to drive data center ... Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott Microsoft this week denounced a web search partnership in Japan that would see its close partner, Yahoo!, tie up with industry Goliath Google. SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 27, 2010 - NightHawk Radiology Services, which provides high-quality, cost-effective services to approximately 1,600 healthcare sites – including 26 percent of all U.S. hospitals – has selected the Cisco Unified Computing System® as a highly available and scalable platform for the company's new main data center, which consolidates many smaller server sites ... Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott The US Copyright Office, a unit of the Library of Congress, this week ruled that iPhone users are free to "jailbreak" their devices, opening them up to non-Apple-approved applications. SHANGHAI, China - July 27, 2010 - Earlier this month, Cisco TelePresenceTM equipment enabled the first virtual dance rehearsal of young dancers of the Children's Palace in Shanghai and their counterparts from National Dance Institute (NDI) in New York. These talented children began preparations for their joint performance from opposite sides of the world using Cisco's high-definition, video ... Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott As part of its quarterly and annual financial results released late last week, Microsoft announced that it had sold more than 175 million copies of Windows 7 through the third week of July. SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 23, 2010 - Cisco will host a live Internet TV broadcast and Q&A session featuring NightHawk Radiology Services, which provides high-quality, cost-effective services to approximately1,600 healthcare sites, including 26 percent of all hospitals throughout the United States. NightHawk Radiology Services has selected the Cisco Unified Computing System® as a highly ... Windows IT Pro Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Microsoft's record-setting financial results, Windows 7 hits 175 million units sold, Microsoft's mysterious ARM agreement points to a possible tablet future, Apple delays white iPhone 4s until the end of time, Nokia issues in the high-end market, Dell settles SEC case for $100 million, Amazon profits surge, and Facebook hits 500 million users. SAN FRANCISCO - July 22, 2010 - Businesses must change their mindset on security to help ensure that their networks and vital corporate information are protected from evolving security threats, according to the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report released today. Tectonic shifts – the increasing use of social networking, the proliferation of network-connected mobile devices, and virtualization ... | Business Partners               
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