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Online auction site eBay released their list of the most active markets for the site Thursday, reporting that both Los Angeles-Long Beach and Orange County were among the top 10 markets for the firm. According to eBay, the Los Angeles-Long Beach area ranked number one in the U.S. for eBay sales, selling $1.3 billion dollars in items on the site last year; Orange County ranked sixth in the nation for eBay sales, with over $636M in sales for last year. Other top markets for eBay sales were New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington D.C., Houston, Nassau-Suffolk, New York, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. eBay reported that Los Angeles residents sold 24,051,645 items worth $1,396,037,518 last year, and Orange County residents sold 6,945,490 items worth $636,654,084.
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In the old days, firewalls were often enough to keep hackers out of IT systems. But now vendors are rolling out intrusion prevention systems which block suspicious traffic. How some vendors are combining firewalls with other functions.
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When the university ran out of data centre space and cooling capacity, it replaced its infrastructure with virtual servers on blades. Find out how much power the school saves — and why perhaps one in three enterprise servers isn’t in use at all
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As desktop and handheld monitors continue to expand in size, this industry observer wonders, where will it all end?
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Today’s information worker has a selection of productivity apps. But mainstream apps aside, what of open source?
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Active Control announced this week a middleware add-on to its ActiveMine product, which is designed to transmit voice and video over 802.11 networks in mines. Find out how this improves safety
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At JavaOne this week, Sun Microsystems was short on specifics on when it plans to roll out its designer-oriented RIA tools
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While known for its ERP software, most companies rarely choose SAP for one-off applications. Here are five things to consider before entering into a long-term deal with SAP.
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At JavaOne today, the Sun-Intel alliance introduced Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) for the Solaris operating system using Sun Studio. TBB makes it easier to develop threaded applications for newer multi-core processors, including Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors. TBB is available as an open source project and has become the most widely used tool for software developers using C++ to take advantage of the power of multi-core processors. Now, Sun Studio with TBB makes it possible to quickly harness the full processing power of Solaris platforms. Visit Intel’s booth #502 at JavaOne or click here for more details.
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Los Angeles-based video game studio Pandemic Studios said Thursday that it is developing a new title based on Lord of the Rings. The studio, which is a unit of Electronic Arts, said that The Lord of the Rings: Conquest will ship for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, and Ninendo DS platforms. The game, which is being released in partnership with New Line Cinema, is being developed by the team which build Star Wars Battlefront and the Star Wars Battlefront II titles. Pandemic said the game is set for release in fall of 2008, with game trailers and footage to be released in June.
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