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Last week I, like many, went to Ultimate Bet rake back bonus in Phoenix. I was giving the show one last chance. After attending SNW in the spring and almost seeing no users, I had almost given up hope that there would be another SNW.This time there were users many of the presentations and the mini-summits were standing room only. Summits like the Solid State Drive summit were well attended and the tradeshow floor was packed. Storage pros worry about putting data in the cloud At SNW, vendors made the following news: The Storage Performance Council rolled out a new benchmark the SPC Benchmark 1/Energy which tests larger, more complex configurations. The new benchmark measures and reports on energy use in addition to storage performance. LSI announced 6Gbps Serial Attached SCSI host bus adapters that provide performance enhancements for direct-attached Serial ATA and SAS drives. The LSI SAS 9200 series adapters connect to both 3G and 6Gbps SATA and SAS or solid-state drives and are targeted at e-mail, OLTP and streaming video workloads. NEC introduced an iSCSI storage array the NEC D-Series, which also includes thin provisioning capability. The D-Series SAN Storage system also supports Fibre Channel and scales from 219GB to over 144TB in capacity. Metalogix repriced its e-mail archiving software to $15 per mailbox. MetaLogic Professional Archive Manager for Exchange also includes new features such as federated search, searches within a search and automated export of .PST files.

Music battle begins as Rock Band debuts on the iPhone
So much for Tapulous monopoly on the rhythm music game genre on the iPhone. Now the competition is heating up as High Payout Slots the hugely popular music game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is now available on Apples AppStore. Electronic Arts, MTV Games and Harmonix said the launch of Rock Band for the iPhone was on its way on Oct. 8. The aim is to take back some ground that an unknown startup, Tapulous, took when it debuted its Tap Tap Revenge series of games on the iPhone. Tapulous games are installed on more than a third of all iPhones. And Tapulous has distributed more than 10 million copies of the game. The competition is likely to get hotter. Activision Blizzard still hasnt launched its genre-dominating hit, Guitar Hero, on the iPhone. But Tapulous is releasing its own Tap Tap Revenge 3 game this fall. Both Tap Tap Revenge 3 and Rock Band for the iPhone are likely to target similar audiences. The $9.99 Rock Band game will have multiplayer for up to four players via Bluetooth connections between gadgets. It will also have vocals and 20 songs. Youll be able to buy more songs through in-app purchases. Heres the list of available songs: Attack-30 Seconds To Mars Girls Not Grey AFI Move Along – All American Rejects Sabotage – Beastie Boys All The Small Things – Blink-182 Hanging on the Telephone Blondie Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters Everlong – Foo Fighters Bad to The Bone – George Thorogood & the Destroyers Hymn 43 – Jethro Tull Bad Reputation – Joan Jett Simple Man – Lynard Skynard Ace of Spades 08 Motorhead Debaser – Pixies Ladybug – Presidents of The United States of America Give It All – Rise Against Lazy Eye – Silversun Pick Ups Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins Take The Money and Run – Steve Miller Band We Got The Beat – The Go Gos

OLPC in hands of all Uruguay’s primary kids
Things seem to be looking up for the much-criticised One Laptop Per Child venture after Uruguay become the first country to supply the cheap computer to all of its primary school children. Around 380,000 XO laptops at $260 (160) per head have been supplied to state primary schools, taking up a full five per cent of Uruguay’s education budget.Election winThe ambitious project is being presented as a success for the incumbent government ahead of a general election on 25 October.Project director Miguel Brechner told the BBC: “This is not simply the handing out of laptops or an education programme. It is a programme which seeks to reduce the gap between the digital world and the world of knowledge.”Old dogs, new tricksNevertheless, there has been some resistance to the new technology, with older teachers cited as needing some persuasion before embracing the XO laptops and their Linux-based operating system. One school head explained: “We have a lady who’s been teaching for 30 years and when they gave us the computers and the training, she asked for leave because she didn’t want to have anything to do with the programme. Later she changed her mind and now computers have changed the way she teaches.”Spreading the wordNow, the next step for OLPC could come from its success in Uruguay, as the project leaders there are offering their services as consultants to other countries.So far, Rwanda, Haiti, El Salvador, Paraguay and areas of Argentina and Colombia have asked about the best ways to get the OLPC ball rolling for themselves.Related StoriesBFG unleashes its Deimos X-10 gaming laptopLatest picture tease on Dell’s Adamo XPSAcer aims for 30 million laptop sales in 09Dell founder hits out at netbooksToshiba unveils Satellite L555 and L450 laptops