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Latest Featured Articles » In Partnership, Google Takes Chrome Laptops to the Cloud This week at the annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Calif., Google unwrapped Chrome operating system based netbooks dubbed Chromebooks. Concurrently, targeting businesses, schools and government, the search engine giant also unveiled hardware and software subscription plans for the cloud. » Theft of Software on PCs Jumped in 2010 to About $59 Billion: BSA Theft of software jumped some 14 percent worldwide last year to set a record of close to $59 billion, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reports. And many users of pirated software do not realize what they are doing is wrong, says the BSA. » OCZ Technology Delivers 6 Gbps SAS Solid-State Drives for Enterprise For enterprise storage system OEMs, high performance solid-state drives (SSDs) maker OCZ Technology, has readied high capacity 6 Gbps serial attached SCSI SSDs for enterprise. Labeled Talos, the new line of SSDs strengthen company's ultra-fast and high capacity solid-state portfolio while expanding the availability of its proprietary virtualized controller architecture (VCA) technology to storage OEMs. » Samsung, Google Launch Web-centric Chromebook, Take Notebook to The Cloud Partnering with search engine giant Google, leading consumer electronics supplier Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corp., has unleashed a novel notebook for mobile web-centric consumers and IT personnel. Called Chromebook, the Series 5 notebooks offer speed, simplicity and security, said Samsung. » Did Microsoft's Antitrust Agreement Create a More Competitive Market? The antitrust settlement agreement that Microsoft signed with the Department of Justice expires today, nearly nine years after it went into effect. But the question still remains, how much impact did the historic oversight have on the technology world? » Queen Elizabeth May Have Gotten Her Own iPad It was widely reported that Queen Elizabeth was highly impressed with her grandson's choice of a bride. But she was also impressed with his choice of a computer - an iPad - so much so, that she asked Palace staff for her own, according to media reports. » FCC Commissioner Steps Down to Lobby for Comcast A top regulator for the Federal Communications Commission is leaving her post to join Comcast's Washington lobbying office, just four months after she voted to approve the cable provider's highly controversial acquisition of NBC-Universal. » Solid-State Drives Are Poised to Grow in 2012, says Gartner With falling memory prices, solid-state drives or SSDs are ready to give hard disk drives (HDDs) a run for their money. A recent report by market research firm Gartner indicates that by the second half of 2012, prices of mainstream personal computer SSDs will reach US$1 per gigabyte. As a result, SSDs will come within the reach of consumers, wrote CrunchGear. » Apple's iAd Will No Longer Serve Ads in Kids' Apps Rumor has it that Apple's iAd platform will no longer be serving ads within apps aimed at young children. But don't feel warm and fuzzy: it has little to do with corporate concern for the impressionable minds of the youngest app users. » French Publishers Sue Google for Illegal Book Scanning Three major French publishers are suing Google for scanning thousands of books to its digital library without proper permission. » Franken Leads Hearing on Smartphone Users' Rights Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) led a hearing today to address privacy concerns affecting mobile phone users, calling on executives from Apple and Google, which have been under the microscope lately for potential privacy breaches. Featured Resources » Virtualization Reduces Costs and Complexity for Mid-sized Businesses » Storage Whitepaper » Power Systems: Comparing Costs of IBM PowerVM and x86 VMware for Enterprise Server Virtualization Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here    Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. FOLLOW TECHZONE360   FEATURED MAGAZINES FEATURED EVENTS

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