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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Videogame your way through the Olympics; Visual tour: Windows Phone 7

Visual tour: Windows Phone 7 | Kensington adapter lets you add another monitor quickly

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Winter Games: Videogame your way through the Olympics
Bored with TV coverage? Play the events yourself. Read More


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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!

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Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops
This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users' behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. Read More

Visual tour: Windows Phone 7
Microsoft's Windows 7 Phones Series mobile OS blends stylish Zune interface with new features for socializing, sharing, and office productivity. Read More

Kensington adapter lets you add another monitor quickly
This tiny device lets you add an extra monitor to your PC system quickly and easily. Connect one end of the device to your monitor cable (DVI and VGA supported), and the other end to a USB port on the computer, and you're up and running. Read More

Dualie combines hard drive, iPod/iPhone dock
The Dualie is a docking station for your iPhone or iPod that also contains a docking space for a 500GB portable hard drive, as well as some additional USB ports. 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.

Rinspeed electric concept car includes force feedback joystick, 3G enabled dashboard
Swiss tuner Rinspeed shows a concept ahead of the Geneva Auto Show for an electric vehicle that is small enough for the city but can go longer distances by rail. Read More

Google Streetview takes to the slopes
Google is celebrating the arrival of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics with some additions to Google Street View. Read More

MWC: Samsung shows the Wave phone
Samsung kicked off this year's Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona on Sunday by unveiling Wave. The phone's most eye-catching feature is a 3.3-inch OLED screen that offers richer colors than the LCD screens found on many other cell phones. The screen is protected by a piece of tempered glass that has an anti-smudge coating so users shouldn't have to spend too much time cleaning off fingerprints. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Actuate

Selecting the Right Reporting Technology
Today, dynamic reports have emerged as the most visual, widely used and impactful part of enterprise applications. In order to increase the usability and value of applications, ISVs must embed a technology into their products to add rich, interactive, Web 2.0 reporting and analytics to attract and retain customers. Learn more!

MWC - Toshiba debuts TG02 smartphone
Toshiba debuted its TG02 smartphone this week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The phone is a follow-up to last year's TG01 and from the outside looks similar. New is a 3D menu and the touch screen on the phone has been changed to a capacative model, which should mean a smoother ride for users. Read More

MWC: Microsoft debuts Windows Phone 7 Series
Microsoft fired its latest shot on Monday against competitors like Apple and Google in the battle for the cell phone software market. Windows Phone 7 Series, unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be on phones by the end of the year and is a complete rewrite of the Windows Mobile operating system. Read More

MWC: Sony Ericsson shows smallest Android phone yet
Sony Ericsson's smartphone line-up is getting bigger while the phones are getting smaller. At the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona on Sunday they company showed smaller and lighter versions of the X10 handset that is due on sale in April. The X10mini and X10mini pro both run on Google's Android operating system and the user interface has been tweaked to match the small size. Read More



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Videogame your way through the Olympics
If you're bored with (or inspired by) NBC's coverage of the games, there's always your PC or video game system that lets you feel like you're competing in these events.

The technology behind the Vancouver Olympic Games
Bell Canada is claiming the Vancouver 2010 Olympic network as the first IP-based converged network at any Olympic or Paralympic Games. It will be built to provide seamless telephone, wireless, radio and Internet communications services for fans, media, athletes and officials from around the world.

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