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	Smartphone OS leaves one hand free Today's smartphones are too much of a handful, according to Israeli company Else: You either need to grab them with both hands and punch away at the keyboard with your thumbs, or you hold them with one hand and touch the screen with the other. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. In this Issue MeeGo Offers Platform Diversity Beyond Smartphones Microsoft stops serving Window patch blamed for blue screens Apache Beehive project retired Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Virtualized Web Application Delivery This white paper discusses how any size organization can tune its Web application delivery services with a virtualized solution that will meet the unique characteristics of each individual application. Read More MeeGo Offers Platform Diversity Beyond Smartphones Nokia and Intel announced the merger of Nokia's Maemo operating system with Intel's Moblin operating system to create a new, Linux-based, open source smartphone platform--MeeGo. An alliance between tech giants the caliber of Nokia and Intel is bound to draw some attention, but MeeGo is facing an uphill battle to try and scratch out a market amid established smartphone competitors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more. Microsoft stops serving Window patch blamed for blue screens Microsoft has stopped distributing a Windows patch thought to cause a Blue Screen of Death on XP machines, and said it is investigating the problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! Apache Beehive project retired The Java programming model effort derived from BEA technology suffered from a slowdown in contributions Read More Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim Microsoft users are reporting on the company's support forum that Tuesday's security updates are crippling Windows XP-based PCs. Read More
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