Friday, January 14, 2011

NRF Big Show 2011: Breakthrough Technologies For Retailing

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TOP STORY
- NRF Big Show 2011: Breakthrough Technologies For Retailing

ALSO SEE
- 53% Midsize Businesses Plan To Increase IT Spend

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Hardening Next-Gen Web Applications

WHITEPAPERS
- 2011 Forecast: IPv4 Address Pool Will Run Dry

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Top 5 Cloud Computing Predictions For 2011

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- Network Error Disables Fire Department

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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- NRF Big Show 2011: Breakthrough Technologies For Retailing
The National Retail Federation's "Big Show" in New York highlighted scores of cutting-edge retail technologies, from mobile devices and digital signage to point-of-sale systems and store-management applications. Tablet computers were everywhere, of course, though more often featured as a raffle prize designed to draw booth visitors and gather business card leads. Several exhibitors demonstrated iPad-native "clienteling" apps designed to help salespeople demonstrate and explain complicated (or out-of-stock) products. There were plenty of conventional point-of-sale terminals on display, but with smart phones quickly gaining broad use, many retailers and retail technology suppliers are developing apps and peripherals designed to work with iPhones, Android devices, and other mobile platforms.
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- 53% Midsize Businesses Plan To Increase IT Spend
IBM study finds midmarket companies are shifting their primary focus from cost cutting to infrastructure investments, the cloud, and business analytics in 2011.
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- Cisco Introduces Social Customer Care Tool
SocialMiner provides analytics that can guide corporate response to Tweets, Facebook posts, and other social media interactions with customers.
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- Google Acquires eBook Technologies
The deal strengthens Google's digital content distribution capabilities and diminishes its vulnerability to potential patent lawsuits.
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- Google Translate Adds Conversation Mode
Speakers of English and Spanish can now talk to each other through the intercession of Google Translate.
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- Google Places App Arrives For iPhone
Features previously offered only through Google Maps for Android are now available through an iPhone app.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Hardening Next-Gen Web Applications
Slick interactive applications have opened up new vistas of opportunity for businesses--and for attackers seeking to make off with data. In this report, we provide an in-depth analysis of the challenges around secure dynamic apps without stifling the very attributes that make them so popular with end users and customers.
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- 2011 Forecast: IPv4 Address Pool Will Run Dry
Moving applications to the cloud renders most APM tools useless. Take a look at how APM products are evolving to meet cloud challenges, and which steps IT must take to adapt APM tools and metrics to public cloud environments.

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- Top 5 Cloud Computing Predictions For 2011
In the coming year, the cloud will reach milestones that critics said it never would: it will be certifiably secure for credit card transactions; able to host multiple virtual machine types in the same infrastructure; and easier to manage.
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- Kinect Technology Headed To PCs, TVs
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer says the hands-free Xbox system is coming to Windows, while ASUS plans a television set-top box.
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- Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2011
Blazing performance, the Chief Acceleration Officer, hybrid clouds, optimized systems, The iPad Explosion, analytics, and others lead our list of CIO priorities or 2011.
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FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG
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- Network Error Disables Fire Department
By Howard Marks
I try not to use this blog simply to indulge in schadenfreude, but I just couldn't resist when I found that the Tokyo Fire Department's emergency call center was down for over four hours on Jan. 5 due to a network error that a few lines in the switch config file could have prevented.
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- Bring-Your-Own Laptop Won't Help VDI
By Mike Fratto, Editor
When I made my 2011 predictions, I didn't hold out much hope for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). I don't think that the upsides in moving to VDI--fast ROI, reduction in operations expenses, security enhancements, etc.--are enough for IT shops to change what they are doing. And I mean any type of VDI, from the traditional remote desktop that Citrix and Microsoft have offered for years to the newer VDI products that run as virtual machines on a desktop or off removable media, some of which we reviewed in 2009. One of the drivers, as Forrester Analyst Andre Kindness notes on Twitter, is that bring-your-own computer is forcing companies to VDI. I disagree, not because you can't use VDI in that situation--if you are going to support bring-your-own laptop, then VDI would be preferred for company apps--but because the costs associated with supporting bring-your-own laptop and transitioning to VDI for most companies are too high compared with the organizational benefit that would be gained.
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- More on Advanced Erasure Codes
By Howard Marks
As we've previously discussed in "What Comes After RAID? Erasure Codes," forward error correction coding is a leading contender to replace parity RAID as disk hardware evolves past the point where parity provides effective protection. The question remains: Are Reed-Solomon and related coding techniques the inevitable replacement for parity in the RAID systems of the future?
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