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• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2012

  By Bob Brown | 30 May, 2012 20:25

  Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2000 to 6000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM's 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year's list of tech industry layoffs.

• Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer

  By Jim Duffy | 25 May, 2012 15:29

  Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.

• Revisiting RDP, discovering ReactOS, and finding Mindjet

  By Mark Gibbs | 23 May, 2012 20:25

  A second look at Microsoft's RDP client, considers a replacement for Windows XP, and delves into "Mind Mapping"

• Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 05:30

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• EU: Programming Languages Can't Be Copyrighted

  By Jennifer Baker | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Europe's top court has ruled that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright.

• The look ahead to a software-controlled world

  By John Dix | 21 May, 2012 20:32

  The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

• For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  The National Football League may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT, Nancy Galietti, doesn't use the word big.

• How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes

  By Susan Perschke | 21 May, 2012 14:29

  Email managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early email administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current email infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges.

• Ethernet switching gets specialized

  By Jim Duffy | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer deployments.

• From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 17 May, 2012 07:22

  Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

• Juniper to license Radware tech for data center?

  By Jim Duffy | 17 May, 2012 05:44

  Juniper Networks is negotiating a deal with Radware to license application delivery controller technology from the company, according to investment firm Oppenheimer & Co.

• Enhance your videos with handy time-lapse camera

  By Keith Shaw | 17 May, 2012 02:49

  The scoop: TLC200 time-lapse camera, by Brinno, about $200 (available at smartecstore.com).

• No tablet comes close to touching iPad: iSuppli

  By Brad Reed | 16 May, 2012 07:31

  After a brief dip in late 2011, the Apple iPad has firmly reasserted its position as the dominant player in the tablet market.

• Intel looks to cover bases with new server chips

  By Jon Gold | 16 May, 2012 02:45

  Intel announced three major expansions of its Xeon server processor line this week, adding lower-priced Sandy Bridge options for the two- and four-socket market and the Ivy Bridge architecture to workstation-class devices.

• Intel incorporates security, management into Core vPro processors

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 May, 2012 23:42

  Intel today described management and security capabilities that will be part of its new Intel Core vPro processor family used in PCs, tablets, laptops and intelligent systems.