Download the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week Barry Phillips, Vice President and Group Manager at Citrix, talks about the continued convergence of voice and data and what that means for IT. In the news Citrix gets serious on the iPhone with Xen, Office makes a push onto the web with support for Mac and Linux, AMD tries to mount a comeback with it's quad-core Shanghai processors, Sun and others get layoff fever, and spammer centric ISP's get taken down. AVG's crippling false positive gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we talk about the next four years of technology and government in "A Closer Look", and we provide some Group Policy troubleshooting pointers in "The Weekly Tech Tip".
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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:Citrix developing XenApps and XenDesktop for the iPhone (InfoWorld)Microsoft: Mac, Linux systems can access Office Web (InfoWorld)Dell, IBM, Microway Unveil AMD Shanghai Servers (InformationWeek)Sun To Cut 18% Of Jobs, Reorganize Software Business (InformationWeek)ICANN Shutting Down EstDomains Nov. 24 (InformationWeek)Update: Flawed AVG antivirus update cripples Windows XP PCs (ComputerWorld)
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- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)