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Enterprise Hardware

Dell releases BIOS updates

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: "Throttlegate": Some owners of Dell notebooks were experiencing severe underperformance and overthrottling, so much so that performance was being cut to a fraction of what it should be.

General News

Cell phones and cancer - good news

Dana Blankenhorn: A population study covering four of the most cell-happy nations on Earth has found no evidence of a cancer risk from using cell phones.

Communications

FCC demands details of Verizon $350 early termination fee

Andrew Nusca: The Federal Communications Commission issued a four-page letter to Verizon's vice president of legal and external affairs demanding more information about the company's planned $350 early termination fee.

Operating Systems

10 Linux features fit for Windows

Jack Wallen: I am going to take pieces of the Linux operating system and place them in Windows. In the end, my hope is that theoretically, at least, we'll have a much more ideal operating system.

IT Management

IBM: More (datacenter) power to you

Heather Clancy: Power distribution, conditioning, protection, back-up (etc.) technologies from several companies are now more tightly integrated with IBM's Portable Modular Data Center line.

Enterprise Software

Office 15: Let the requests begin

Mary Jo Foley: The same way that folks were champing at the bit for Windows 8 news even before Windows 7 was done, there's interest about what's coming next for Office 2010's successor, codenamed "Office 15."

Product Review Blogs

Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?

John Morris: Acer's chairman vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google's Chrome OS sometime in the middle of next year. How big a deal this really is remains to be seen.

Companies

Comcast buys NBC Universal

Larry Dignan: Comcast will have an arsenal of cable channels, a huge distribution network, a movie studio and a top 10 Web presence with 82 million monthly unique visitors.

Security

MS to fix 'critical' IE, Office security holes

Ryan Naraine: Just two weeks after the release of exploit code for a critical (remotely exploitable) security hole in its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft says a fix will be included in this month's batch of Patch Tuesday updates.

Web Technology

Powered by Google: The Public DNS

Garett Rogers: This Public DNS service was created with the intention of making the internet faster - and you know what? Unless it's psychological, my Internet seems to be a bit zippier.