Red Hat 5.3 features virtualization improvements, support for Intel’s Core i7 architecture, and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 became globally available on Wednesday, with the new enterprise OS featuring virtualization improvements, support for Intel’s Core i7 architecture and inclusion of…

The layoffs follow the mobile-network infrastructure firm’s latest quarterly results, which show a steep decline in profits, partly due to a ‘dramatic drop’ in Sony Ericsson’s contribution. The telecoms infrastructure firm Ericsson is to lay off 5,000 workers, after its results for the fourth quarter of 2008 showed a…

The Corporate IT Forum has published an identity-management guide designed to help companies keep track of who is accessing what. Shutting the door to IT systems after staff leave the business and allowing workers to safely log in from home can be major headaches for business. …

India’s outsourcing market will survive recent accounting scandal and U.S. President Barack Obama’s promise to bring jobs back, say industry watchers. INDIA–Newly sworn-in U.S. President Barack Obama may not be a fan of outsourcing, but the Indian IT market has little to fear as the industry becomes a business…

Sony warned it would post a record .9 billion annual operating loss due to sliding demand and a stronger yen, and unveiled fresh restructuring steps to revive its ailing electronics operations. The operating loss will be Sony’s first in 14 years, underscoring deepening troubles for a company that has…

The company has released an out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability that could enable a successful attack on Cisco security products. Cisco has released an out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in its Security Manager product. The flaw lies in the way Security Manager — which configures firewalls, VPN…

Although the swoopy Aptera electric went up for pre-orders back in October of 2007, we haven’t really seen much of the futuristic car outside of the odd Star Trek cameo. Hopefully that’s about to change, though — the company just rolled out the first pre-production example its flagship model, the 2e. The three-wheeled car gets the equivalent of 200mpg, and the company claims the lithium-ion battery pack will last for 100 miles on a single charge. Aptera isn’t giving out final pricing information apart from “between ,000 and ,000″ but it says over 4,000 potential customers have already signed up for a planned California-only October release. We’ll see how it goes — and we’d bet the folks at the Automotive X-Prize are keeping a sharp eye as well.

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Aptera rolls out first pre-production vehicle, promises shipments in October originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve covered a few tidbits of what the Windows 7 Beta has to offer, including the mess of machines we’ve installed it on, but we finally gathered together all our thoughts and impressions of the OS into one meaty pile of words and screencaps. Naturally, we’re working with a beta here, so things can absolutely get better (or worse), and Redmond might be hiding a feature or two in the wings — or for the inevitable SP1 — but we’d say Microsoft has really put its best foot forward here. Check out all our ramblings after the break.

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Windows 7 Beta in-depth impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen a few 3G routers in our day, and now Option’s back with its newest, aimed at homes and small businesses. The GlobeSurfer III was designed to look like something you’d actually want in your house (whether or not they actually hit the mark is your call — the company used the word “stylish” so much in its PR that we felt we had to mention it) and the management software is meant to be easy enough that even networking novices could get their collective heads ’round it. Based on the Qualcomm 7225 chipset, this guy boasts HSUPA uploads up to 5.76 Mbps and downloads up to 7.2 Mbps. Also part of the deal is a USB port for sharing hardware over the network — perfect for serving up media, sharing printers and the like. Pricing and availability to be announced.

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Option GlobeSurfer III wireless 3G router asks, ‘am I pretty?’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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