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	How consumers are holding back retail tech advances The in-person shopping experience, from finding the right product in the store to trying on clothes in a fitting room to paying a cash register, is far more archaic than it needs to be. Read More WHITE PAPER: Google Apps Study: Total Economic Impact of Google Apps Employees can work faster and IT spending can decrease when companies switch to Google Apps, says a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting. Going Google can make teams 20% more efficient and yields an estimated ROI of 329%. 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View more 10 technologies that could revolutionize retail Retailers have an arsenal of technology at their disposal that could both improve their customers' shopping experience and save them money by increasing efficiency. Although some of these technologies are still years away from practical use, each is expected to have some impact on the retail world in the coming years. Read More The Internet of Things gets real A year ago, people were mostly talking about the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) — what companies and government entities might do in the future to take advantage of this widespread network of connected objects. Read More 10 free online tools for converting your PDF files Just because you have a document file in PDF doesn't necessarily stop you from editing it, or otherwise changing it into another kind of file. Here are 10 websites that let you convert your PDF files into other formats (and the other way around) at no cost. All you need to do is upload your PDF file, set the conversion, and download the result. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Technical Overview Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the next generation of Microsoft's information platform, with new features that deliver faster performance, expand capabilities in the cloud, and provide powerful business insights. How SQL Server 2014 incorporates in-memory technology to boost performance in online transactional processing (OLTP) View Now Beware the next circle of hell: Unpatchable systems Insecure by design and trusted by default, embedded systems present security concerns that could prove crippling. Read More Google plans investment in satellite fleet to connect remote parts of the world After experimenting with high altitude balloons, Google is now also looking use a fleet of low-earth-orbit satellites to bring Internet access to remote regions of the world. Read More Internet guru Mary Meeker says enterprise technology is getting cheaper Every year, the Internet community waits breathlessly for Mary Meeker's Internet Trends presentation, where the celebrated Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers tech analyst lays out what's happening in a series of insightful charts and graphs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More Cisco purchase of CIA-funded company may fuel distrust abroad The CIA's non-profit venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, has been pumping millions of dollars into technology startups since its launch in 2000, meaning it's not the least bit unusual for major vendors to have acquired and assimilated one of these CIA-nurtured seedlings. Read More 77% of lawyers can't be trusted … with your confidential data When using email to communicate, more than three-quarters of all lawyers treat their clients' confidential information with all the care you'd expect from a teenager posting to Facebook, according to a new survey. Only 22 percent claim to use encryption. And a full 77% cop to relying solely on "confidentiality statements," otherwise known as virtually nothing. Read More What's really behind the Microsoft-Salesforce deal At first glance, it doesn't seem like there are many ways SalesForce.com and Microsoft should partner: They both offer competing SaaS services. But upon closer inspection, the deal that the leaders of these two companies spoke so highly of during a joint conference call on Thursday afternoon makes a lot of sense not just for these companies, but customers as well. Read More
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