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NOAA Tackles Climate Change
Responding to public demand for climate change information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to form a NOAA Climate Service line office and launches a new website to serve as a single point-of-entry for NOAAs extensive climate information, data, products and services.
- To accommodate the increasingly number of requests for climate change information, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) said Feb. 8 it was creating a NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agencys climate science and service delivery capabilitie...

Microsoft Says Windows 7 Battery Issues Are Batteries' Fault
Microsoft claims its engineers have been exploring complaints of poor battery life for some laptops running Windows 7, and that in every case the operating system is not at fault. Instead, Windows 7 had correctly evaluated via a new feature that those users batteries were failing, Microsoft said in a Feb. 8 blog posting. However, posts on Microsoft Watch, TechNet and other discussion forums seem to suggest that at least a percentage of users experiencing these issues also had batteries that were either new or nearly-new, which in turn is raising further questions.
- Microsoft's engineers have been exploring the alleged battery-life issues associated with Windows 7 running on laptops, and report that the operating system is not causing those batteries to prematurely fail. In every case, claimed an official Microsoft blog posting on Feb. 8, Windows 7 correctly ...

SAP Intends to Restore Market Trust Under New Management Regime
SAP's new management team will have the task of getting the company growing again and restoring a sense of trust in the enterprise applications maker among SAP employees, partners and customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of the company's Supervisory Board.
- A new SAP management team will focus on restoring trust inside and outside of the enterprise business software company that was lost over the past couple of years as a result of policies that led to discontent among SAP employees as well as customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of th...

HP Updates TRIM SharePoint Records Management Package
Hewlett-Packard introduces Total Records Information Management 7, which enables an enterprise to manage all of its Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment regardless of the source of each document.
- Hewlett-Packard is coming at enterprise storage organization problems from a Microsoft SharePoint read that nonstorage vantage point. HP on Feb. 8 introduced a new version of its Web-based records management package, TRIM (Total Records Information Management) 7, which enables an enterprise to...

IBM Aims New Power7 Systems at the Smarter Planet
IBM launches a set of Power7 systems that it says deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems.
- NEW YORK IBM launched a set of new Power7 systems that it says deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems. At an old fashioned reach-out-and-touch launch at the swanky Mand...

New Intel Itanium Offers Greater Performance, Memory Capacity
It may be two years late, but Intel's Itanium processor code-named Tukwila offers twice the number of cores as the current version code-named Montecito, with significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intel's high-end Xeon server chip, and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes as IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business.
- It took a little longer than expected, but Intel officials have finally released quot;Tukwila, quot; the next-generation Itanium processor that offers significant advances in performance and scalability and a host of features that improve everything from virtualization capabilities to reliabilit...

10 Reasons Why the Linux Community Could Influence iPhone Sales
News Analysis: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that he has purchased and likes Google's Nexus One smartphone. It's no small endorsement. With Torvalds' support comes a full Linux community that is ready and willing to take on the iPhone.
- Although the combined market share of Linux distributions pales in comparison with Windows or Mac OS X, the Linux community is strong, engaged and, perhaps most importantly, loyal. Part of that is due to the community's strong feelings against closed software, especially products sold by Microsof...

Barnes and Noble's Nook E-Reader Now In Stock, Soon In Stores
Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader experienced months of delays due to supposed demand, a situation that may be changing with the booksellers announcement that the Nook would be available in most stores starting midweek. The Nook is also listed as in stock online. Competition in the e-reader arena has heated up as the Nook, Amazon.com's Kindle, and soon the Apple iPad all compete for dominancy of the e-text market, with technological innovations and pricing seen as key factors in whether the manufacturers will seize a majority of market-share.
- Barnes amp; Noble announced Feb. 8 that its Nook e-reader would be available in most of its stores nationwide by midweek, possibly bringing an end to months of delays for the devices. The Nook was also listed as quot;In Stock quot; on Barnes amp; Noble's Website. The retailer originally...

Application Whitelisting Isn't Too Bad
AppLocker is Microsofts take on application whitelisting, a process by which a user can only run applications or processes that are expressly permitted by policy.
- Six months ago, when I started using Windows 7 full time on my primary system, I wanted to take better advantage of the new operating systems baked-in security features. I had already been running as a limited-rights user that needed a separate administrator password to affect system changes thr...

Facebook Homepage Redesign Puts Search Front and Center
Facebook turned six years old Feb. 4. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly told the world that the leading social network now has more than 400 million users. To celebrate the birthday, Facebook also began rolling out changes to the homepage. Though currently visible to only 80 million of the site's users worldwide, the changes are significant signs that company is looking to improve the site's search and overall usability. See some of the changes, which will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks, in this eWEEK slideshow.
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