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desktop virtualization is a hard sell

The desktop management group at International Paper Co. has been shot down each time it approached the executive level about adopting desktop virtualization.

Many IT shops are finding it hard to make a business case for this emerging technology, said Ronald Thomas, a software delivery engineer with the Memphis, Tenn.-based company. Unlike server virtualization, there are no solid case studies or statistics for IT to fall back on that show cost savings or a boost in IT productivity. And desktop virtualization is unproven as far as making it easier for users to get their jobs done more efficiently.

Details Here: searchwinit.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid1_gci1312129,00.html

first published week of:   05/19/2008

Doubling Laptop Battery Life

Intel’s new integrated power management could dramatically reduce power consumption in your laptop by shutting down operations not being used.

Details Here: www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20901/?a=f

first published week of:   06/23/2008

Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage

Did a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war?

This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old civil lawsuit that is finally being tried this month in California but which has, oddly, received little notice from U.S. media. The case involves a colorful cast of characters that includes former intelligence agents, Canadian TV pirates, Bulgarian and German hackers, stolen e-mails and the mysterious suicide of a Berlin hacker who had been courted by the Murdoch company not long before his death.

On the hot spot is NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm that makes smartcards for pay-TV systems like DirecTV. The company is a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch’s News Corporation. The charges stem from 1997 when NDS is accused of cracking the encryption of rival NagraStar, which makes access cards and systems for EchoStar's Dish Network and other pay-TV services. Further, it’s alleged NDS then hired hackers to manufacture and distribute counterfeit NagraStar cards to pirates to steal Dish Network’s programming for free.

Details Here: www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/04/murdoch

first published week of:   04/21/2008

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