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September 21, 2006

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In This Edition

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1. Slide Show: Must-Have Tools for the Enterprise and Beyond

2. News: AMD Opens Opteron Servers to New Chips

3. News: Report: HP Chief Approved 'Sting' on Journalist

4. News Analysis: Body Politics: States Look to Lock Down

RFID Behavior

5. Opinion: Will the EC Delay Vista?

6. News: Sun Releases NetBeans Version for Beginners

7. News: Government Studies How to Push Digital Health Records

8. Blog: Google Base: The Soccer Mom's Bulk Uploader

9. News: Ganging Up on Power and Cooling

10. Slide Show: Morning Coffee

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News and Views

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1. Slide Show: Must-Have Tools for the Enterprise and Beyond

eWEEK Labs evaluates hundreds of products on test beds that

mimic real-world environments. To properly put products

through their paces, the analysts rely on a cadre of

tried-and-true tools. Here are the products eWEEK Labs

can't live without.

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2. News: AMD Opens Opteron Servers to New Chips

The chip maker is expanding its Torrenza co-processor initiative.

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3. News: Report: HP Chief Approved 'Sting' on Journalist

Hewlett-Packard's Chief Executive Mark Hurd had approved a

"sting" operation on a reporter to investigate boardroom media

leaks, The Washington Post reports, and embattled Chairman

Patricia Dunn said she looked forward to "setting the record

straight" soon.

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4. News Analysis: Body Politics: States Look to Lock Down

RFID Behavior

The debate on privacy and security standards of tagging identities to

national ID cards, passports and the human body is making waves in

states, as the Feds mandate RFID use in the name of national security.

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5. Opinion: Will the EC Delay Vista?

Microsoft and the European Commission are at a standoff over the

bundling of security software in Windows Vista. Who wins will

determine the fate of Vista and the economy that has been built

around it.

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6. News: Sun Releases NetBeans Version for Beginners

Sun Microsystems teams with a group of academics to release a

version of the Sun NetBeans IDE that aims to help train developers

on Java and transition them to professional tools.

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7. News: Government Studies How to Push Digital Health Records

A federal committee hearing drove home the point that patients

want their doctors, and not employers, insurance companies or

governments, to host and access patient health records.

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8. Blog: Google Base: The Soccer Mom's Bulk Uploader

Google has long been known for its spartan design sensibility. But

sometimes, that sensibility errs too much on the "everything in one

font size" side of things.

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9. News: Ganging Up on Power and Cooling

Speakers at the Digital Power Forum say that it will take the combined

efforts of IT, data center managers and facilitites departments to address

the growing problems.

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10. Slide Show: Morning Coffee

Peter Coffee starts your day with tech highlights: The IT risk/benefit

trade-off demands debate about how much users should know.

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Job Search

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The Channel Insider

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DevSource

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