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Friday, January 07, 2011

The 5 coolest things to come out of CES

Verizon unveils 10 mobile devices with LTE built-in | A lot to like about Cisco's new Internet TV

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TOP STORY: The 5 coolest things to come out of CES
Anyone who's attended tech conventions over the past five years has heard plenty about 4G wireless networks, but this year the hype has become a reality. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Crunching Data Warehousing Workloads Cheaper Than Ever (IBM)
IBM's Balanced Warehouse solutions address diverse DW price points and requirements, ranging from high-end enterprise DWs down to smaller, function-limited DWs and departmental data marts. Balanced Warehouses build on and extend the Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU) DW appliance solutions that IBM had introduced almost two years prior. Read now!

Verizon unveils 10 mobile devices with LTE built-in
At CES 2011 this week, Verizon displayed 10 new devices that will natively connect to its burgeoning LTE 4G network. Users will be able to choose from the latest smartphone, tablets, hotspots and more. Read More

A lot to like about Cisco's new Internet TV
There's a lot to like about Cisco's newly unveiled Internet TV platform, Videoscape. Cisco is in an increasingly crowded arena with its next-generation television experience, one that marries subscription TV with Web content, personal videos and social media. But because Cisco is device-agnostic -- and its customers are the service providers -- it is pitching a platform that could be a way out for the logjam occurring between providers (Netflix versus Comcast; Google TV versus Fox). Read More

WHITE PAPER: Why Organizations Need LTO-5 Today (Quantum Corporation)
For years, tape storage systems have played a key role in efforts to store data for backup and retrieval, archiving, and contingency planning purposes. More recently, tape has been called on to help preserve and safeguard data to meet data retention laws and regulations. Read More

15 Gadget Concepts Gone Bad
We're all about creativity in design, but some concepts should stay on the drawing board. Read More

CES Laptop Rush: Scores of New Models, Few New Designs
There is certainly no shortage of new laptops announced at CES this year. In an unusual turn, both Intel and AMD have hot new laptop processors ready to ship, and the manufacturers are scrambling to incorporate them into their product lines. Read More

WHITE PAPER: The Problem with Data Warehousing (ParAccel)
Tackle the most complex analytic challenges and glean insight from vast amounts of data. Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing analytic database can provide high performance analytics against complex SQL workloads the most challenging analytic queries. Read now!

Video from CES: Refrigerators get even more networkier
LG shows off the latest technology enhancements with its refrigerators, with features such as the ability to tell you when your food has spoiled, and regulating the temperature via a smartphone. Read More

Video from CES: D-Link displays a router with curves
D-Link was showing at CES 2011 a wireless router with curves instead of the typical two or three antennae. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Tackle the Most Challenging Analytic Queries (ParAccel)
Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing database can provide ultra fast analytics with: • Schema-neutral, load-and-go analysis • High performance against complex SQL workloads • All-in-memory processing Read now!

Nvidia unveils 'Denver,' its first CPU for PCs
Nvidia is developing new CPU cores based on the Arm architecture for PCs and servers that will be able to run Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS, the company said on Wednesday. Read More

Google will deploy fixes for Android SMS bug soon
Android users who thought they fat-fingered a text message to the wrong person may be able to lay the blame with Google developers. Read More

Analyst 'baffled' by Microsoft talk of Windows 8 on ARM
Microsoft's announcement at CES that its next version of Windows will run on the ARM chip architecture was the wrong message at the wrong place, said an industry analyst. Read More

Intel: Sandy Bridge's Insider is not DRM technology
Intel on Thursday defended its Intel Insider feature in the latest Sandy Bridge PC chips, which secures streaming of high-definition movies from online movie services to PCs. Read More


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