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	More carriers turning to third-party providers Comptel and CTIA both kicked off conferences this week, so we're in for another round of news from each organization's event. We'll start the newsreel highlights with an announcement by LogiSense delivered at Comptel Plus this week in Las Vegas. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Polycom Win a 360º unified conference station It's a chance to win the Polycom® CX5000, featuring a 360 degree panoramic view. Easily add group video collaboration to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Bring a whole new perspective to your meetings. Enter the sweepstakes today! In this Issue UC - Quantifying the savings Unified communications and cloud-based services Verizon, SAP team to deliver CRM CaaS Consumer and Enterprise Worlds Are Converging On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Smartphone OS shootout: Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone WHITE PAPER: IBM Seven Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today Read this white paper to uncover why predictive analytics is becoming a necessity for companies to gain and maintain advantage. Read Now UC - Quantifying the savings In our discussion of and excerpting from our recent report, "2011 Unified Communications and Cloud-Based Services Report", we mentioned last time that qualitatively if a Knowledge worker could recover just 25% of their "overhead" time by use of UC, then this could save about six weeks per year in lost productivity. Read More Unified communications and cloud-based services We've been discussing a pair of our State-of-the-Market Reports, and today we're moving from the more general communications trends - unified communications and cloud-based services. In particular, we'll be examining and excerpting how these two complementary trends can be of significant advantage when considered together. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall A Powerful Platform for Virtualization Download this HP white paper to learn how the next-generation ProLiant servers can help companies achieve rapid ROI and dramatically lower their operational expenses. Read More Verizon, SAP team to deliver CRM CaaS Verizon and SAP have announced that they are teaming to jointly deliver the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) to enterprise users through Verizon's Computing as a Service (CaaS) cloud offering. Subscribers will be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices. Read More Consumer and Enterprise Worlds Are Converging One of the trends we've been closely following is the growing use of consumer technologies in the workplace, a trend highlighted recently by Cisco and Microsoft. Cisco announced that its home video conferencing product, umi, would now support connectivity with its business telepresence systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft previewed Xbox client support for its Lync unified communications platform. These... Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Reduce the Impact of Explosive Data Growth This whitepaper introduces and next-generation deduplication technology from HP that allows for better management, higher performance, and more efficient data protection, while providing IT with a cost-effective way to control unrelenting data growth. Read Now On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Back in January, Scandinavian gamers hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server to host "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions. When asked about that incident, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News told Network World that hackers are not the most likely individuals to commandeer corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators, he said. Read More Smartphone OS shootout: Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. MOST-READ STORIES U.S. govt. sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Should you stop using RSA SecurID tokens? 39 free security software tools Apple sues Amazon for trademark infringement over "App Store" Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android Cisco sets the bar for mobile security Did hackers nab RSA SecurID's secret sauce? Google Voice coming to all Sprint phones The RSA hack FAQ
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