Making the Switch to iSCSI Storage (Campus Technology)

Client by client, iSCSI is claiming ground against fibre channel in the external storage wars. For Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY, that day of reckoning came a week or so before Thanksgiving 2006 when the school's fibre channel storage system went down.

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Review: Autonet Mobile: Your Own Personal Hot Spot, Everywhere You Go (Wired)

Sure, on the outside it looks like a standard-fare, late-model Pontiac Grand Am rented from Avis. But in actuality, it’s your very own personal rolling WiFi hot spot: no wires, no weird antennas, no voodoo witchcraft. As long as you're within 100 feet of this candy-apple-red vehicle, connecting and surfing the net is easier than drifting into a power slide on wet pavement. The device that does it is the Autonet Mobile WiFi router.

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Apple, AT&T, 31 others sued for infringing on smart phone patent (Network World)

Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Minerva Industries, a Los Angeles-based patent-holding firm. On the same day it received the patent, Minerva proceeded to sue 33 companies for patent infringement.

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Spectrum auction starts, draws over $2.7 billion in first-day bids (Ars Technica)

Bidding is finally under way for the 700MHz spectrum being vacated by analog television broadcasts. Bids have totaled nearly $2.8 billion, but the reserve prices on the C and D Blocks are far from being met.

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Inside The Exclusive Diamond Lounge Social Network (AppScout)

Are you a CEO? A celebrity? Maybe just a poor tech journalist? If you're the latter, you can get a trial membership to the Diamond Lounge, where richer, cooler people than you can add you to your friends list. It's the velvet rope, Web 2.0 style.

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Team Aquaduct wins Innovate or Die competition (Google)

The contest said to "Innovate or Die" – and Team Aquaduct lives! The quintet was declared the winner out of 102 entries by building a unique and functional solution to provide rural communities with access to clean water.

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