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	Cisco adds 802.11ac, cloud features to new home router Cisco's Linksys brand of home wireless networking routers today joined other vendors in coming out with 802.11ac equipment, as well as enabling a cloud-based platform for configuration and control of its "Smart Wi-Fi Routers." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Ditch Your Spreadsheets with FREE IP Address Tracker Tool! Tired of using home-grown IP address tools to track down conflicting addresses and to see which ones are free? Ditch your spreadsheet for good! Our FREE tool gives you a unified view of your IP address space and the tools to manage it. Download the free IP Address Tracker tool today! In this Issue Gadgets galore at at Pepcom's Digital Experience Samsung Galaxy S III: 8 Key Features and Facts Wrong about iPhone? Not him. 'The article was prescient' Robot ruins rock, paper, scissors forever Five years ago they said the iPhone would be a flop ... Now? Does Google's $199 tablet target $499 iPad or Kindle Fire? For such a nice tablet, Microsoft is doing a lot of things wrong Drobo Mini offers big storage in tiny form factor Buffalo shows off hybrid Thunderbolt / USB 3.0 external drive Lenovo M92p Tiny desktop offers tower alternative for businesses WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower Costs of Your Product Lifecycle Management This paper includes sizing guidelines with recommended configurations for small, medium, and large installations along with test results and best practices for configuring the environment to optimize performance and reliability on Sun x86 servers from Oracle. Learn More! Gadgets galore at at Pepcom's Digital Experience I took a quick trip down to New York City last week to attend Pepcom's Digital Experience event, in which more than 50 companies were showing off new consumer technology products and offerings. As I'm also the video guy here at IDG Enterprise, I brought along the video camera and did some video interviews as well. Here's a roundup of those interviews and their products: Read More Samsung Galaxy S III: 8 Key Features and Facts Less than a year ago, in September 2011, Samsung launched its Galaxy S II smartphone. Then a few months later in January, it released the popular Galaxy Nexus handheld, followed by the half-phone, half-tablet Note device. In other words, Samsung has been busy. Read More Wrong about iPhone? Not him. 'The article was prescient' With Friday being the 5th anniversary of the public release of the iPhone, I contacted a number of pundits who prior to that event had predicted that Apple's new gadget would be a failure, a flop, or at least hugely disappointing. Their 2007 predictions and their replies to my question - "What do you have to say for yourself?" -- are featured in this slideshow: Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Transforming Tier 1 Applications through Virtualization This Technology Spotlight will explore the benefits of virtualizing tier 1 applications and discuss the role that EMC Consulting plays in virtualizing top tier Microsoft applications (including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL) on the VMware platform. Learn More Robot ruins rock, paper, scissors forever Perhaps in an effort to create a robot that would win every battle for the last slice of pizza or the front seat of a car on a long road trip, University of Tokyo scientists have built a robot that cannot lose to a human at rock, paper, scissors. Read More Five years ago they said the iPhone would be a flop ... Now? Pundits who got it wrong explain why ... or deny that they did Read More Does Google's $199 tablet target $499 iPad or Kindle Fire? As Google prepares to unveil a highly anticipated 7-in. tablet for $199 at Google I/O today, a big question lingers: Is the new Nexus 7 intended to take on the $199 Kindle Fire, or the highly popular $499 iPad? Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers. Learn more. For such a nice tablet, Microsoft is doing a lot of things wrong Now that the dust is settling on the Microsoft Surface tablet, all of the details are coming out, and it looks like this whole tablet adventure is turning into one big boondoggle, and given the shaky state of things, Microsoft can't afford any missteps. For more than 20 years, Microsoft has been in a very select hardware business. It limited itself to input devices – keyboards and mice – along... Read More Drobo Mini offers big storage in tiny form factor At the Digital Experience event in New York, Drobo CEO Tom Buiocchi shows off the Drobo Mini, a new storage unit that can hold smaller hard drives (including SSD units) for maximum storage capacity. Read More Buffalo shows off hybrid Thunderbolt / USB 3.0 external drive At Pepcom's Digital Experience event in New York, Brian Verenkoff from Buffalo Technology shows their new MiniStation Thunderbolt, a hybrid external storage drive with Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connections. Read More Lenovo M92p Tiny desktop offers tower alternative for businesses At Pepcom's Digital Experience event in New York, Bill Dominici from Lenovo shows off the new M92p Tiny desktop, which can attach to the back of a monitor and acts as an alternative to desktop tower computers for businesses. Read More
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