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Sun updates xVM virtualization software
Sun has released a new version of xVM VirtualBox, its platform for desktop virtualization, and is also starting to offer enterprise support for the platform, the company said on Thursday.

Red Hat buys Qumranet to extend virtualization reach
Red Hat has expanded its support for virtualization technologies with the acquisition of Israeli software company Qumranet, developer of the open-source KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) project, for US$107 million.

Red Hat buys desktop-virtualization vendor Qumranet
Red Hat Thursday extended its virtualization wares to the desktop, spending $107 million in cash to acquire open source vendor Qumranet.

OLPC's dual-boot Linux, Windows laptop due out soon
A low-cost XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Project that carries both Windows and Linux will be out within the next month or so, according to an OLPC official.

Erlanger (Ky.) Police Department
By combining business intelligence and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.

Mozilla renews Google cash cow deal
Mozilla has renewed an agreement with Google Inc. that pays the browser maker for assigning Google's search engine as Firefox's default, Mozilla's former CEO said this week.

Wider implications of the Red Hat breach
Reports of data losses and system breaches are almost becoming passe but from time to time events happen that take on a life of their own and have effects far beyond what the initial breach would normally represent.

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$EDITOR: Don Marti

Fun with web stats

Submitted by dmarti on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:12:22 +0000

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