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	Microsoft's Office 365 not ready to leave beta, analyst says Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service is likely on the verge of exiting beta and entering general availability. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the service will launch this month and will be giving a speech about the service's future on June 28. But is Office 365 really ready to ditch the "beta" tag? One analyst who has been testing Office 365 for a few months says no -- and a quick look at Microsoft help forums shows that numerous beta testers are experiencing problems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! 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Learn More The Best 2011 Windows 7 Laptops for Work and Play The iPad and other tablets are transforming personal computing, but most of the world still uses laptops for business and pleasure, and 90 percent of them run Windows. Here are the coolest high-end laptops released in 2011 that take advantage of Windows 7's networking, security and UI features. Read More Employers paying up for scarce IT talent [if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Read More Apple iCloud: How do you stay secure with this thing? Memo to IT departments that were caught flat-footed when people started bringing their iPhones to work: You'd better get ready for the iCloud. Read More Cisco faces second suit over China actions Cisco is now facing a second lawsuit alleging that the company's technology and training aided in identifying and monitoring Chinese dissidents. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Video Collaboration: Lights, Camera, User Adoption Video deployment has been slow. Today, barriers are dissolving. Price points are dropping. CIOs are more engaged in driving the business forward with process and technology. Learn More US looking for revolutionary binary code system It may be one the oldest, most basic components of software code but the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to develop what they call revolutionary technologies for analyzing, identifying, and slicing binary executable components. Read More Tough-as-nails phone vs. a bad-ass blender It turns out that much like beauty, blending is in the eye of the beholder. In this case, that means we have both the makers of the Sonim XP3300 cell phone - renowned for its virtual indestructibility - and the Total Blender Wildside by Blendtec claiming their machines came out on top in Blendec's latest "Will it Blend" challenge. Sonim looks to have the better case, but judge for yourself: Read More Turkish government sites targeted by Anonymous Hacker group Anonymous said on Thursday it has launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on some Turkish government websites, in protest against government plans to introduce Internet filtering. Read More Microsoft hopes to draw Android developers to Windows Phone Microsoft is trying to woo Android application developers, offering them help in porting applications to Windows Phone. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Independent Lab Comparative Review MierConsulting engineers conducted an hands-on, comparative review of three leading contact center packages, focusing on these products' multimedia, mixed voice and text-based contacts - capabilities. Read Now Data loss hits vast majority of businesses: survey Data loss is rampant among businesses worldwide, with the most common cause of losses being lost or stolen equipment, according to a survey. Read More Fully rugged notebook PC powered by Intel i7 Fully rugged notebook PCs are a special breed. The latest model from GD Itronix incorporates Intel's latest chip architectures, and offers faster memory, LTE support and USB 3.0. Read More Daily innovation smackdown: Paul Otellini vs. Lou Gerstner Both Paul Otellini and Lou Gerstner took down the young up-and-comers in the first round. In this social networking world, apparently word did not get out to the hoards of friends on Facebook and Twitter followers as Biz Stone and Mark Zuckerberg were taken down by the old guard. How will Intel stack up against IBM in this next round of innovators? Vote now! Read More Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after successful trial One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites. 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