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Google’s $625 million acquisition of antispam and data security company Postini is finally bearing fruit. The search giant announced a new security service today: for $3-25 per year, corporate clients can use Postini’s spam filters and security features as a means of protecting their own e-mail systems against data loss, spam, and other risks.
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Kuala Lumpur, February 6, 2008 – Sailing towards the company’s largest enterprise launch in its history, Microsoft reached another important milestone today with the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008.The response from IT professionals and developers has been strong as the company moves toward the launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
One indication …

High availability is a system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures a certain absolute degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.
Availability refers to the ability of the user community to access the system, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work, or collect the results of previous work. If a user cannot access the system, …

While the Eee PC was very successful and ran Linux, it was not clear if Asus planned to continue to use Linux in future products. Asus’s recent announcement of three new Linux-based products indicates their commitment to using Linux.
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Microsoft’s aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than “a marketing thing,” according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.
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FPS Labs is reporting that NVIDIA will soon announce its intention to acquire AGEIA. FPS Labs’ Stu Grubbs has no financial terms for the deal, but notes that his confidential source expects the deal to become official sometime this week.
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