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Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal': A First Look at the OS

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April 22, 2011
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Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal': A First Look at the OS The April 28 release of the open-source operating system update may be the most exciting yet for Ubuntu Linux. Here's an advance tour of the features, including the Unity desktop and the Compiz window manager.
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Your iPhone and Your iPad Are Snooping on You Researchers discover that these devices store a record of your locations in an unencrypted file that gets backed up to your computer.
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Defense CIO Wants to Speed Adoption of Cloud, Mobile Technologies U.S. Department of Defense CIO Teri Takai intends to move the agency's IT in a more mainstream direction to help speed adoption of new technologies.
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Researchers Make Weak Passwords Strong With CAPTCHAs Researchers have found a way to get around the persistent problem of remembering strong passwords -- break them in two.
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Facebook's Constant Tweaks: 5 Ways to Stay Up to Date When you disclose as much personal information as many of us do on Facebook, it's important to know when changes in privacy occur, when security updates go live...
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Amazon EC2 Outage Calls 'Availability Zones' Into Question Amazon protects cloud applications by running them across multiple availability zones, but what happens when more than one zone fails?
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AT&T Racks Up iPhone Activations Despite Verizon Competition AT&T actually boosted its total iPhone activations, while maintaining the same churn rate for the device that it reported a year ago.
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Apple's Second Quarter Profit Soars on Strong IPhone Sales Apple's revenue and profit soared in its fiscal second quarter ended March 26, buoyed by strong iPhone sales, the company said Wednesday.
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Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You Where does open source fit in the cloud world?
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After Delays, Windows Phones Get Update Microsoft started rolling out software updates to users of the Samsung Focus and LG Quantum, following more than a month of delays.
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