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	Microsoft previews Windows Phone 8 Microsoft today unveiled a revamped Windows Phone mobile OS that will share key core elements with Windows 8. It also revealed a much more customizable Metro user interface, and changes designed to make the OS more acceptable to corporate IT groups. 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 Five years later: Do Apple's first iPhone ads ring a bell? Cool Summer Gadget Guide Larry Ellison to buy Hawaiian island Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in NASA revamps, looks to speed high-tech commercialization opportunities The Worst Data Breach Incidents of 2012 – So Far Surface vs. iPad: The Weight of the World on Microsoft First class of hardware accelerator designers launch robots and gadgets in San Francisco Windows Phone 7 Users Can't Upgrade to WP8 HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs When CTOs Quit, What's Next? Samsung mulls enterprise cloud services for mobile devices Hollywood's Elite Data Centers Must Deliver Star IT Performances WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 2012 WAN Optimization Magic Quadrant Limited bandwidth, long distances and poor network quality prohibit cost reductions for today's critical IT initiatives. Your IT organization needs WAN optimization that can be deployed anywhere, on any platform, and for the lowest cost. See how the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers can help. Read now. Five years later: Do Apple's first iPhone ads ring a bell? Time flies when you're becoming the world's most popular mobile phone: The iPhone turns five next week. The iPhone hit retail stores on June 29, 2007 - at the oddball hour of 6 p.m. - by which time the Apple marketing machine had generated deafening buzz. The first iPhone TV commercial aired during the Oscars ceremony Feb. 25 and featured 32 famous actors saying "hello" or some variation, followed... Read More Cool Summer Gadget Guide Read More Larry Ellison to buy Hawaiian island Larry Ellison might have a new place to dock his yacht. The billionaire CEO of Oracle has reached an agreement to buy 98 percent of Lanai, one of Hawaii's eight main islands. Read More Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in Customers of Amazon Web Services may be unknowingly locking their data and computational logic in with the popular cloud service, making it difficult to move or significantly modify those resources, the president of a competing cloud provider asserted Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola WiNG 5 Wireless LAN: Delivering Better Quality of Experience Can your wireless network infrastructure handle the growing numbers of mobile devices taking significant bandwidth bites out of your network? The good news is that with smart, cost-effective wireless infrastructure investments, not only can you scale quickly to secure the growing number of devices you serve, but also optimize their performance. Learn More. NASA revamps, looks to speed high-tech commercialization opportunities Looking to address harsh criticism from its own inspector general that has been painfully slow in getting important technologies out of the lab and into commercial applications, NASA today said it has opened a revamped Technology Transfer Portal which aims to streamline the way the space agency handles that business. Read More The Worst Data Breach Incidents of 2012 – So Far Out of 189 breaches recorded through mid-June, here are the top 15 according to Identity Theft Resource Center. Read More Surface vs. iPad: The Weight of the World on Microsoft Will Steve Ballmer risk it all in his quest to unmake the iPad? He has a chance, but Microsoft advertising must first forge a relentless attack on the iPad's weaknesses. Read More First class of hardware accelerator designers launch robots and gadgets in San Francisco Nine companies went through a 111-day mentorship and training that sent them to China, called HAXLR8R. They demonstrated their products in San Francisco. Many have fundraising pages on kickstarter to get their gadgets into production. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Tablets in the Enterprise Tablets are replacing laptops at lightning speed. Whether company-issued or part of the BYOD phenomenon, the increased use of smart devices has resulted in a dramatic shift in network traffic with an emphasis on wireless. This paper explains how to predict Wi-Fi demands and architect a best-fit wireless network strategy for your environment. Learn more. Windows Phone 7 Users Can't Upgrade to WP8 If you own a Windows phone today, you won't be able to get all the hot new features and Windows 8 integration announced today without buying a new Nokia, Huawei, Samsung, or HTC phone. Read More HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs HP today released a smaller version of its Windows NAS file server, the X5520. The new model is aimed at SMBs and addressing unstructured data growth due to trends such as bring-your-own technology. Read More When CTOs Quit, What's Next? With his announcement to quit the largest and the most popular social networking site soon via a Facebook post, Bret Taylor joins the league of some of the famous high-profiled CTOs of multi-million dollar organizations such as Microsoft, Google and NASA among others who quit to pursue other interests. Read More Samsung mulls enterprise cloud services for mobile devices Samsung is looking into the idea of hosting its own cloud services to extend the appeal of its Android-based consumer smartphones and tablets to enterprises, the company said on Wednesday. Read More Hollywood's Elite Data Centers Must Deliver Star IT Performances Some companies need data centers capable of sending and receiving petabytes' worth of data. Others require reliable connections to sites half a world away. Others still must scale up, then down, at a moment's notice. The firms that help make Hollywood blockbusters must do all three at once. Their experiences offer lessons to enterprises in all industries. Read More
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