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Screenshots: Data Center Planner review

May 1, 2013 10:13am PDT

Just about any data center administrator will benefit from a fully featured data center planning application.

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Data centers in the 21st Century

April 22, 2013 9:29am PDT

Here are some snapshots of data centers from around the world that take advantage of the newest designs and technological advancements to achieve better security, performance, efficiency, and...

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Five Data Center Management Apps

April 16, 2013 12:24pm PDT

Wally Bahny takes a look at five apps covering several aspects of data center management.

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Navy X Planes from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

February 13, 2013 2:08am PST

View this image gallery of examples of Navy X planes.

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NASA's 1975 vision of space colonization (pictures)

November 27, 2012 12:00pm PST

When space exploration was just two decades old, NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a space settlement design summit looking at orbiting spaceships and how we might live in...

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Slideshow: Download and install the Windows 8 Media Center Pack for free

November 20, 2012 1:19pm PST

Greg Shultz explains how to download and install the free Windows 8 Media Center Pack in Windows 8 Pro, including some caveats.

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Space shuttle Atlantis is moved to museum at Kennedy Space Center (pictures)

November 3, 2012 8:10am PDT

NASA conducted a grand sendoff for Atlantis on Friday as the space shuttle was rolled 10 miles from its workplace of almost 30 years to a new, custom-built museum exhibition.

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Endeavour takes final curtain call over San Francisco Bay (pictures)

September 21, 2012 3:00pm PDT

Piggybacking on a Boeing 747, the space shuttle tours the San Francisco Bay Area Friday enroute to its finally destination, the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

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Slideshow: The Windows 8 Action Center

August 2, 2012 7:59am PDT

Windows 8's Action Center has been streamlined to further centralize and simplify standard maintenance operations.

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Slideshow: Install Windows Media Center to Windows 8

July 25, 2012 11:27am PDT

Windows Media Center will only be available as an Add-on for Windows 8. Greg Shultz shows how to download and install it.

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Supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy gives up a secret

February 14, 2012 9:00am PST

For years, scientists puzzled over mysterious X-ray flares given off by Sagittarius A*. Now they've uncovered an explanation.

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Top ticketing apps for developers

January 31, 2012 11:52am PST

Help desk apps just don't cut it for tracking bugs and handling development tasks. Here are a few ticketing systems designed specifically for software developers.

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Top apps to manage your help desk tasks

January 10, 2012 9:07am PST

The right help desk system can greatly enhance the services you deliver -- and it can make life a lot easier for the techs and managers, too.

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Ten rules to keep tech support sane

August 31, 2011 6:51am PDT

Help desk work requires far more than just knowing how to sort out a user's computer problems.

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Photos: GE's LEED Platinum data center

August 19, 2011 7:54am PDT

GE recently built a $48 million state-of-the-art data center, one of the first in the world with LEED Platinum certification. Here are photos from the grand opening on August 18, 2011 in...

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Looking in on Verizon's App Innovation Center (photos)

August 10, 2011 4:00pm PDT

CNET swung by Verizon's new App Innovation Center on its opening day to see what cutting edge projects the spacious downtown San Francisco office has in store.

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Inside Sprint M2M Collaboration Center

June 30, 2011 3:00pm PDT

CNET goes inside Sprint's M2M Collaboration Center near San Francisco to see how the company's network can help machines talk to machines.

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A Tour of Sprint's M2M Collaboration Center

June 29, 2011 6:40am PDT

Sprint established a new M2M Collaboration Center in the Bay Area last fall, and here's a close-up look at some of the technology that has been developed in the Burlingame, Calif.-based labs since...