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	Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. Read More WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist View this Webcast today and learn how SMBs can save money, time and IT resources by backing up critical data to the cloud. This online server backup checklist for SMBs outlines how cloud adoption is quick, secure and affordable, scaling with business growth and eliminating daily backup hassles. Learn more! In this Issue Can Clearwire escape financial doom? Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair Windows 8 may get cloud backup, deep integrations with online services Windows Phone 7: the first day HP and 'Where's Leo?' parlor game crash Oracle/SAP trial 8 useful Google Android resources Gadget teardown company iFixit pushes self-repair manifesto Steve Ballmer reveals his secret Twitter account UC platform: Use Microsoft or go the open route? Windows Phone 7 Flying Off Store Shelves WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain How to Reduce Your Backup Burden Discover the top 10 reasons businesses are turning to data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. Read now Can Clearwire escape financial doom? While Clearwire added 1.23 million new subscribers in the third quarter of 2010, its operating expenses continued to dwarf its revenues and the company could go bust soon without new capital. Read More Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair A New York couple have been charged with defrauding a wealthy musician to the tune of $20 million after he innocently visited their computer servicing company to have a virus removed from his laptop. Read More Windows 8 may get cloud backup, deep integrations with online services Microsoft seems to be planning robust integrations between its online services and Windows 8, possibly including an online backup service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now! Windows Phone 7: the first day Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 seems to have done moderately well in yesterday's first day of U.S. sales. Read More HP and 'Where's Leo?' parlor game crash Oracle/SAP trial What HP has managed to accomplish here is truly remarkable ... and not in a good way. While the attention of the public and press should be squarely on an already compelling courtroom battle between Oracle and SAP, it is not; that attention has been diverted to a simple question relating to HP's newly hired CEO: Where's Leo? Read More 8 useful Google Android resources If you've found yourself playing catch-up on Google Android, here's a selection of resources from Network World and our sister publications to get you up to speed quickly. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Leverage Optics and IP Closer integration of IP and optical transport networks offers significant opportunities to reduce transport costs and increase network efficiency. Learn how key elements of the converged backbone, including support for 100G across optics and IP platforms, provide the lowest cost per bit transport. Read now. Gadget teardown company iFixit pushes self-repair manifesto iFixit, a company focused on helping people fix electronic devices from the Apple iPad to Microsoft Kinect to Google TV, is mad as hell about all the discarded products that pile up in landfills around the world and has issued a manifesto urging consumers to repair their own stuff and hang on to it longer. Read More Steve Ballmer reveals his secret Twitter account "Quietly" is not a word that would usually describe any action performed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But quietly is exactly how Ballmer has conducted himself on Twitter, a site he joined over a year ago unbeknown to most of the technology world. Read More UC platform: Use Microsoft or go the open route? Unified communications requires integrating multiple tools, and there are many ways to skin a cat. But is it better to come at the opportunity using integrated tools from Microsoft or try to stitch something together using open tools? See what our experts have to say in this Tech Debate. Read More Windows Phone 7 Flying Off Store Shelves The HTC DH7, one of the first smartphones featuring the Windows Phone 7 OS, has sold out, one day after its release. This instantaneous success can be credited either to HTC's impressive track list of making great smartphones or the public's strong interest in Microsoft's revamped mobile OS. Either way, it's a good day for Microsoft -- though there's a long road ahead. Read More
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