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	First look: Android 4 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Google's mobile OS gets a major upgrade next month, but there's no need to wait to see some of the new capabilities in action. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try it free today. In this Issue PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky RIM's PlayBook: Buy two, get one free AT&T gets its first LTE phones next week 20 high-tech toilets Canonical to expand Ubuntu for smartphones, tablets New $89 open-source hardware runs full Linux OS Are You Taking Advantage of SMARTnet? How to Fire People the Right Way WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Windows 7 Migration Made Easier with Desktop Virtualization Windows 7 presents both an opportunity and a challenge for enterprises and their IT organizations. . Unless IT can simplify the adoption process, the enterprise faces potential long term disruptions to IT and end users alike. Read this whitepaper to learn how desktop virtualization offers a better way forward. Learn More PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky Whether the Halloween timing is coincidental or not, this robot's latest video release from Boston Dynamics is evoking comparisons to The Terminator. Read More RIM's PlayBook: Buy two, get one free Customers who buy two BlackBerry PlayBooks will get a third one free, in what one analyst says is an effort by Research In Motion to boost flagging sales. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! AT&T gets its first LTE phones next week AT&T is getting ready to add the one crucial piece that's been missing from its LTE rollout: smartphones. Read More 20 high-tech toilets Lights, music, action! Today's tricked-out toilets have it all. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Four Steps to Dynamic Workload Management In the beginning, IT ran on one platform - the mainframe. Workloads were predictable and stable, and we could schedule accordingly. But then came Unix, AS/400, Windows and a multitude of other platforms, all with accompanying workloads. Learn More! Canonical to expand Ubuntu for smartphones, tablets Canonical plans to expand its Ubuntu Linux distribution so it could be used on smartphones, tablets and other touch interface consumer electronics, said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Read More New $89 open-source hardware runs full Linux OS An open-source hardware group on Monday announced a US$89 credit-card sized motherboard based on an ARM processor that could be used for robotics, gaming and medical devices. Read More Are You Taking Advantage of SMARTnet? Everyone has heard of Cisco SMARTnet. We all know what it is and what is does, and what resources are available to us, right? Well, not so fast. Read More How to Fire People the Right Way When Roy Bostock, the chairman of Yahoo's board of directors, fired Carol Bartz over the phone last month, the company's cold handling of the termination was widely regarded as an example of how not to fire an executive--or any employee for that matter. Read More
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