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The product release of Terminal Services Version 5 (TS V5) coincides with the release of IBM’s 4690 OS Version 5 (4690 V5). TS V5 will be required in a 4690 OS V5 implementation (or with a DDS/CSF implementation based on 4690 OS V5).
 
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  • Laptops, Mini-Notebooks to Grab the Spotlight at 2009 CES
    While the U.S. economy remains in a recession and the 2009 CES expo has been scaled back a bit, PC vendors such as Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and others are using the show to highlight a new offering of laptops and mininotebooks that are thinner, lighter and much cheaper for consumers to buy. At the same time, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor are each launching new platforms that look to challenge the market that Intel has created with its Atom processor.
    - At the 2009 CES expo, its all about laptops, ultraportables and mininotebooks. When this years CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivering the opening keynote address, PC makers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard along with Intel, Advanced Micro Devices,...



  • IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 for Apple Mac OS X Supports Google, Yahoo Calendars
    IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X computers, boasting a user interface that lets users access Notes' full messaging and collaboration features from one screen. The new release also interoperates with Web calendar applications from Google, Yahoo and other public Web calendars, allowing users to display their Lotus Notes work calendar and their personal Internet calendar on the same screen. IBM claims this is its attempt to make Notes more social -- integrating work and play -- as it seeks to compete with Microsoft.
    - IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5 enterprise e-mail application is now available for Apple computers running the Mac OS X Leopard operating system, months after rolling out to Windows and Linux users. Key to Lotus Notes 8.5 for Macs is an integrated user interface that lets users access and manage e-mail...



  • Samsung Unveils New High-Capacity, 'Green' Enterprise SSD
    The new SSD can process IOPS (input/output per second) more than 10 times faster than the fastest 15K-rpm SAS disk drive available for transactional data workloads, Samsung said. It features a random read speed of 25K and a random write speed of 6K.
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  • Clearwire Debuts Portland WiMax
    It's the first WiMax rollout since Clearwire and Sprint Nextel combined operations debuts in Portland. The open all-IP network provides mobile and wireless customers with average download speeds initially of 2M to 4M bps and peak rates that are considerably faster. Clearwire plans to provide WiMax service in most of the top 100 markets by no later than 2010, although the current economic conditions could put a crimp in those plans.
    - If not quite coast-to-coast, WiMax is now at least on each coast. Three months after Sprint Nextel carried out the nation's first WiMax rollout in Baltimore, Clearwire the newly combined WiMax operations of Sprint and Clearwire flipped the switch Jan. 6 on a WiMax deployment in Portland, Ore. W...




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