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	Firefox, Opera downloads soar after IE warnings Mozilla yesterday reported a “huge increase” in downloads of Firefox in Germany after that country’s computer security agency urged IE users to dump the browser and run a rival instead. Read More WHITE PAPER: BlueArc Save on Storage Costs Learn how to bring intelligent tiered storage into your environment with a flexible and efficient platform. Lower costs, create a more environmentally-friendly data center and optimize your storage environment. Intelligent tiering is a viable option today. Learn More! In this Issue 1-in-5 consumers likely to buy Apple tablet, poll says Preston Gralla: Installing Firefox 3.6: One more reason Linux isn’t ready for the prime-time mass market IT Blogwatch: Linux market share grows vs. Windows and Mac OS X shrinkage First Look: BumpTop Mac Apple boosts 27-in. iMac shipping delay to 3 weeks Preston Gralla: Firefox 3.6: Where’s the juice? Seth Weintraub: Will Apple’s tablet take some netbook market? Seth Weintraub: Chrome now gets Google Voice extension Other Resources The Business Case for Virtualization RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess Click to continue 1-in-5 consumers likely to buy Apple tablet, poll says Apple is looking at a huge hit in its rumored tablet, with nearly 20% of U.S. consumers likely to buy the device, a research analyst said today. Read More Preston Gralla: Installing Firefox 3.6: One more reason Linux isn’t ready for the prime-time mass market Looking to upgrade to Firefox 3.6? On Windows and the Mac, you don’t need to do much more than download a file, perform a few clicks, and you’re done. But for the moment, if you want to upgrade it on Linux, you’ll be in a world of pain unless you’re a very experienced Linux user. It’s one more piece of evidence that Linux needs plenty of help if it wants to crack the mass market. Read More IT Blogwatch: Linux market share grows vs. Windows and Mac OS X shrinkage We’re told Linux is the only desktop OS with a growing market share: Windows and Mac OS X actually shrank. The Net Applications report also shows Windows 7 already dwarfing all versions of Mac OS combined. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers review the data. Not to mention People In Order… (MSFT) (AAPL) Read More First Look: BumpTop Mac I’ll admit it. When BumpTop first launched as a Windows-only application, I was jealous. The software turned your desktop into a 3D room, where you could easily stick stuff on the walls, make piles of files, and finally move beyond the standard 2D-desktop metaphor. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMWare Virtualization Cost Savings Not Yet Explored Small and midsize organizations may think virtualization is too costly or complex given limited resources and budgets. But by consolidating and virtualizing 20 servers down to 3, you could save $200,000 in server and related power and cooling costs as well as $85,000 in IT staff expenses over 3 years. Download White Paper! Apple boosts 27-in. iMac shipping delay to 3 weeks Apple on Thursday increased the shipping delay for its 27-in. iMac to three weeks, the longest since the new model’s debut last year. Read More Preston Gralla: Firefox 3.6: Where’s the juice? The just-released Firefox 3.6 is a perfectly fine browser, boosting speed a reasonable amount over previous versions, improving security, and adding a useful feature or two. But use it a little while, and you’ll soon ask yourself: Is that all there is? And is the problem not with Firefox, but that browsers themselves have gotten old and tired? Read More Seth Weintraub: Will Apple’s tablet take some netbook market? We already know the Apple tablet has eBook reader makers scared. In just the past few days, Amazon has cut a better deal with publishers, offered up an SDK and even given their best customers an opportunity to get a free Kindle. That isn’t a good poker face to say the least. But, should Netbook makers be afraid? Read More Seth Weintraub: Chrome now gets Google Voice extension Google last night released the second version of its Google Voice Chrome extension with some very notable new features. Read More
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