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	Avaya announces UC upgrades, sponsors 'for dummies' resource Avaya recently announced its Aura Contact Center with improved collaboration, integrated social media and greater scalability. In a related announcement, Avaya also introduced new services and capabilities to help businesses more effectively incorporate social media into their customer sales and service strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more In this Issue 5 Big Tech Players; 5 Bad Android Apps Google: Sun offered to license Java for $100 million Cisco exec: "Demand for Cius is higher than we expected." HTC unveils smartphone for Chinese Twitter-like service IT Outsourcing: How Offshoring Can Kill Innovation WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering better, smarter, faster business decisions To compete today, organizations need to have key market, consumer or product insights. Through Business Intelligence, forward-looking companies are gaining a competitive edge and succeeding both tactically and operationally. Read the white paper and see how IBM® can provide the strategic platform for you to make more innovative decisions, faster. Read Now 5 Big Tech Players; 5 Bad Android Apps Using Android isn't all cupcakes and ice cream sandwiches. Here are five of Android's biggest app fails -- from tech companies that should know better, like Facebook and Skype. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! Google: Sun offered to license Java for $100 million Sun Microsystems offered to license its Java technology to Google for US$100 million, a Google attorney said Thursday, attempting to show that Oracle is out of touch as it seeks billions from Google for patent infringement. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya Why Corporations Need to Automate IT Systems Management In today's competitive business environment, corporations across all industries are looking to provide quality products and services while at the same time cutting costs, saving energy and doing more with less. Automated IT systems management is the ultimate facilitator for achieving these goals…and more. Read now Cisco exec: "Demand for Cius is higher than we expected." Cisco won't have a 3G-capable Cius until the fall, when it will be released for Verizon customers. Yet Cisco execs say that are already wowed by early orders of the WiFi-only tablet/IP phone combo. "Demand for Cius is higher than we expected," said Barry O'Sullivan, senior VP of Cisco's Collaboration and Communication Group to a group of of journalists at Cisco Live. O'Sullivan wouldn't reveal details,... Read More HTC unveils smartphone for Chinese Twitter-like service After announcing smartphones with a dedicated Facebook button, HTC is trying the same formula in China. This time it will have a button connecting to one of the country's largest Twitter-like services in the country. Read More IT Outsourcing: How Offshoring Can Kill Innovation IT service providers are touting the benefits of outsourcing's increasingly higher-value and more complex IT work to lower-cost locales. And IT customers still hyper-focused on cost cutting in today's economic doldrums are more than willing to consider the pitch. But Harvard Business School professors David Pisano and Willy Shih argue that "moving up the value chain" with offshoring can irreversibly damage a company's—and a country's—competitiveness and ability to innovate. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from the Subnets: Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of IPv6 for Enterprise Networks books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!) From IT geeks winning millions to Google mush-brain syndrome, 2011 is shaping up to be one wacky year. MOST-READ STORIES Google: Sun offered to license Java for $100 million Rackspace's cloud going all OpenStack Toyota system automatically stops car before it hits a pedestrian 7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry Anonymous, LulzSec vow to hack on Alcatel-Lucent confirms Enterprise business may be sold Does this video depict a future Google+ spamageddon? Still Awesome After All These Years: Eight Excellent Free Downloads 10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years Google Labs' greatest non-hits
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