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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Control Computers with Your Feet

Want a movie? Buy a hard drive! | Gesture projector displayed inside inflatable dome

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Control Computers with Your Feet
Using your fingers and hands to control your devices or computers is so last year. Someday, we might all be talking about multi-toe touch interfaces. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices
Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More!

WEBCAST: HyTrust

8 Tips for Virtualization Under Control
Examine 8 tips that will show you how to virtualize more critical workloads with confidence. From security planning and policy management to automation and access controls, get expert advice on how to build a more secure virtual infrastructure to accelerate the virtualization of business-critical applications. Learn More!

Want a movie? Buy a hard drive!
Seagate, makers of the FreeAgent Go portable hard drive, and Paramount (makers of movies) today announced a new offering that will let users unlock (and buy) select Paramount movies from pre-loaded FreeAgent Go 500GB hard drives. Read More

Gesture projector displayed inside inflatable dome
Inside an inflatable dome at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta is an omnidirectional projector that can be controlled by simple gestures. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc.

Improve Productivity by Optimizing your SSL VPN
Are you getting all you can from your SSL VPN? Read this whitepaper to find out Learn More

RFID gets under security microscope
With RFID tags being embedded in everyday items like passports, credit cards and transit passes, security becomes a concern with this always-on technology. Read More

Simon the Robot can help around the house
On show at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta, Simon can learn new tasks. Read More


E-GUIDE: BlackBerry

Expert Guide: Crafting a Secure Mobility Strategy
Securing mobile data in transit and at rest is a top IT concern. This eGuide offers expert advice on simplifying management and security of smartphones, improved fail-over for DR and control of enterprise application downloads and permissions. Read now and download a free license of BlackBerry Enterprise Express to manage up to 75 users. Read Now.

"Skinput" turns body into interface
New work from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon Univeristy have made touch interfaces literally just that with the presentation of Skinput at this week's Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta. Read More

Luminos add 3D to Microsoft Surface
Using a Microsoft Surface table has typically been limited to two-dimensional interactions, but research out of Germany and presented at the Computer Human Interaction conference hopes to add a third dimension. Read More



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10 useful Google Chrome Experiments
Google's Chrome Experiments is a Web site that showcases JavaScript programs which deliver a rich user-graphics experience. To date, there are about 80 projects featured on Chrome Experiments. Here are the 10 most useful.

Interop history quiz
The venerable networking tradeshow Interop convenes this month in Las Vegas. Answer the following 10 questions about Interop, keep score and see how you stack up at the end.

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