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	Canonical wants to shill for Amazon on Ubuntu users' desktops Say you're performing a local search on your computer for the word "Thompson" so as to locate documents about one of your clients. The last thing you likely want or need alongside the list of relevant files is a list of random products available on Amazon (as well as music in the Ubuntu One Music Store) that happen to include the search term. Yet that hasn't stopped Canonical, maker of the popular Ubuntu, from desperately defending its plan to add that very "feature" to the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10, dubbed "Quantal Quetzal." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > In this Issue Microsoft extends Windows Server 2008 support by 18 months Data centers are big polluters, report says Hitachi develops data storage that lasts 100 million years Toshiba aims to slash Ultrabook prices with new hybrid hard drives Samsung asks for new trial in patent dispute with Apple RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Microsoft extends Windows Server 2008 support by 18 months Microsoft has extended mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 by 18 months, and again reminded customers that the still-strong Windows XP will retire in April 2014. Read More Data centers are big polluters, report says Data centers across the world use about 30 billion watts of electricity, about the same as the output of 30 nuclear power plants, with digital warehouses in the U.S. accounting for one-quarter to one-third of that load, The New York Times reports. Those are huge numbers for an industry that often puts forth an image of environmental friendliness. Read More Hitachi develops data storage that lasts 100 million years Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015. The company's main research lab has developed a way to etch digital patterns into robust quartz glass with a laser at a data density that is better than compact discs, then read it using an optical microscope. The data is etched at four different layers in the glass using different focal points of the laser. Read More Toshiba aims to slash Ultrabook prices with new hybrid hard drives Toshiba said Tuesday it will soon begin mass production of a new line of hybrid disk drives equipped with flash memory, touting them as a low-cost replacement for the solid-state drives used in Ultrabook and laptop computers. Hybrid drives are touted as a way to achieve the high boot and start-up speeds of SSD while keeping costs down, but have been slow to catch on. With manufacturers eager to slash prices on Ultrabooks they could finally take off: the SSD in such devices currently accounts for about 25 percent of the total price, according to market estimates. Read More Samsung asks for new trial in patent dispute with Apple Samsung has filed for judgment as a matter of law and a new trial as an alternative, and questioned jury decisions in a number of areas in its patent dispute against Apple. A jury in California decided in August that the South Korean company must pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets. Apple filed last week for additional damages of $707 million. Read More
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