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	Polycom unveils software strategy, signs deal with Jive In two related announcements, Polycom unveiled a software strategy designed to enhance HD video collaboration and it disclosed a new partnership with Jive Software to integrate Polycom HD video into Jive's social business platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Research—Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications Gartner report "How to Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications" is a study of three popular website acceleration techniques: network optimization, front-end optimization and edge caching. Read now In this Issue Cisco: Is the Internet as important as food, water, air, shelter? Some think so Jawbone adds a 'Nerd' to its cool Bluetooth headsets CAPPS Video #3 OpenStack gets a new GUI A phone booth for bibliophiles 8 surprising hunks of space gear that returned to Earth WHITE PAPER: Oracle BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck? The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0—is providing a solution. Learn more. Cisco: Is the Internet as important as food, water, air, shelter? Some think so The Internet is just as important as water, food, air and shelter to a third of people with Internet access, according to an international poll by Cisco. Read More Jawbone adds a 'Nerd' to its cool Bluetooth headsets The scoop: Icon HD + The Nerd, by Jawbone, about $140. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now CAPPS Video #3 Building on the first two CAPPS training videos (which showed how to Integrate Cisco Unity Connection with Cisco Unified Communications Manager using SCCP and SIP), this video demonstrates how a mask can be set in a voice mail profile to change the caller ID of a phone calling into Cisco Unity Connection. Read More OpenStack gets a new GUI The developers behind OpenStack have updated their open source cloud software package with a new graphical user interface and a unified authentication management system, the project's organizers announced Thursday. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Trends in Business Analytics In his presentation "Trends in Business Analytics", Colin White (Founder, BI Research) will explore the impact that trends such as analytic RDBMSes, Hadoop and MapReduce, the NoSQL movement, smarter and real-time analytics, and self-service business intelligence will have on businesses. Read Now A phone booth for bibliophiles What's stranger than the fact that someone is still designing and building telephone booths? How about the fact that these booths are being stocked with books ... real old-fashioned books. Watch this report from Dailymotion: Read More 8 surprising hunks of space gear that returned to Earth NASA and others have had their share of spacecraft parts fall back to Earth Read More
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