Monday, October 31, 2011

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First look: Android 4 'Ice Cream Sandwich'
Google's mobile OS gets a major upgrade next month, but there's no need to wait to see some of the new capabilities in action. Read More


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Windows 7 Migration Made Easier with Desktop Virtualization
Windows 7 presents both an opportunity and a challenge for enterprises and their IT organizations. . Unless IT can simplify the adoption process, the enterprise faces potential long term disruptions to IT and end users alike. Read this whitepaper to learn how desktop virtualization offers a better way forward. Learn More

PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky
Whether the Halloween timing is coincidental or not, this robot's latest video release from Boston Dynamics is evoking comparisons to The Terminator. Read More

RIM's PlayBook: Buy two, get one free
Customers who buy two BlackBerry PlayBooks will get a third one free, in what one analyst says is an effort by Research In Motion to boost flagging sales. Read More


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Hardware Load Balancing
A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More!

AT&T gets its first LTE phones next week
AT&T is getting ready to add the one crucial piece that's been missing from its LTE rollout: smartphones. Read More

20 high-tech toilets
Lights, music, action! Today's tricked-out toilets have it all. Read More


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Four Steps to Dynamic Workload Management
In the beginning, IT ran on one platform - the mainframe. Workloads were predictable and stable, and we could schedule accordingly. But then came Unix, AS/400, Windows and a multitude of other platforms, all with accompanying workloads. Learn More!

Canonical to expand Ubuntu for smartphones, tablets
Canonical plans to expand its Ubuntu Linux distribution so it could be used on smartphones, tablets and other touch interface consumer electronics, said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Read More

New $89 open-source hardware runs full Linux OS
An open-source hardware group on Monday announced a US$89 credit-card sized motherboard based on an ARM processor that could be used for robotics, gaming and medical devices. Read More

Are You Taking Advantage of SMARTnet?
Everyone has heard of Cisco SMARTnet. We all know what it is and what is does, and what resources are available to us, right? Well, not so fast. Read More

How to Fire People the Right Way
When Roy Bostock, the chairman of Yahoo's board of directors, fired Carol Bartz over the phone last month, the company's cold handling of the termination was widely regarded as an example of how not to fire an executive--or any employee for that matter. Read More

 
 
 

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