VMware Fusion 5 Professional ups the ante for OS X VM tech

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	VMware Fusion 5 Professional ups the ante for OS X VM tech I've just fired up VMware Fusion 5 Professional Edition on my iMac under OS X Mountain Lion and I'm really impressed. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial In this Issue Note to Microsoft: Ending service packs would be a mistake So this guy's car breaks down in front of Steve Jobs' driveway Forrester paints a rough future for Windows Why Did The US Government Sell Out Against Open Source? The Four Freedoms of Free Software are broken, Part 0 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Note to Microsoft: Ending service packs would be a mistake Just as Windows 8 hits store shelves, a rumor is making the rounds that Microsoft may do away with any more Service Pack discs, at least for Windows 7. This makes sense on some levels, but it's a mistake on others. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. So this guy's car breaks down in front of Steve Jobs' driveway Those of you who don't want to read another word about Steve Jobs are excused. Those still here should find interesting a collection of personal anecdotes posted to Quora that answer the question: "What are the best stories about people randomly meeting Steve Jobs?" Read More WHITE PAPER: AT&T / AT&T Wireless The Possibilities of Connected Commerce As new mobile devices, consumer applications, social networks and cloud systems expand choices of when and how to connect and do business, corporate leaders are grappling with how to expand and enhance profitable connections, while keeping employees and the enterprise productive and secure. Learn More. Forrester paints a rough future for Windows Anyone who thinks I've been down on Windows 8 needs to read the latest research from Forrester, because it makes me look like a cheerleader by comparison. It paints a future where the best Microsoft can do is hold on to what it has for as long as it can. The report, authored by chief analyst Frank Gillett and a number of other Forrester analysts, says that in the post-PC world, there is no single dominant... Read More Why Did The US Government Sell Out Against Open Source? The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) just announced that they have replaced over 17,000 Blackberry phones with Apple's iPhones. While I can understand the reasoning behind replacing the Blackberry phones, I don't quite get the logic on going to another closed system like Apple's iOS. It seems that ICE did not want Android because of its open nature. Read More The Four Freedoms of Free Software are broken, Part 0 "Free Software" (with a capital "F"), and the GPL are core components of the Linux - and broader Open Source - world. In order for software to qualify as being "Free," it must adhere to a list of four criteria - "The 4 Freedoms." Unfortunately, those four "Freedoms" suffer from some serious logic problems that any good compiler would throw an error on. Or, in some cases, result in a kernel... Read More
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