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	Study: 86% of top websites expose visitors to third-party tracking cookies How prevalent is the use of tracking cookies that get planted on your computer after browsing a website so it can keep track of what you're doing? Turns out that not only do the major websites like to plant their own tracking cookies on you, they're also happy to stick a lot of third-party cookies on you, too. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue Windows Server 2012 highlights Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner How to celebrate Tau Day Windows Phone 8: The new enterprise smartphone platform The original iPhone - the blueprint for the modern day smartphone CIOs Need to Evolve or Be Left in the Dust Sonus seeks to unify unified communications US Navy's high-resolution radar can see individual raindrops in a storm Google's Nexus Q: A failed Apple TV clone Cool Tools: Pivothead Video Eyewear Tablets, smartphones continue to drive growth as sales recede Cloud adoption pushes storage virtualization Red Hat unveils hybrid cloud, PaaS plans LightSquared's Falcone charged with securities fraud WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Software Overview The need for enterprise IT organizations to provide next-generation cloud features such as elastic capacity while meeting ever more demanding performance and reliability requirements is driving demand for a new approach to infrastructure. Read More! Windows Server 2012 highlights A quick visual tour of the revamped Server Manager and other great new features in Windows Server 2012 Read More Windows desktop destined for long slide to oblivion, says Gartner Microsoft will de-emphasize the Windows desktop in future releases of its operating system as usage of traditional Windows applications falls to just 10% of users' time by 2020, analysts said this week. Read More How to celebrate Tau Day There's a movement afoot in mathematics to replace pi (3.14...) with tau (6.28...) Read More Windows Phone 8: The new enterprise smartphone platform In the last few years, the smartphone market has shifted radically, thanks to the consumerization of IT. In my early days in the workforce, the idea of bringing our own hardware to work was unthinkable. That's mostly because we had better hardware at work than at home, but also because IT would never allow it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks How to Choose a Datacenter OTDR This white paper helps fiber installers and network technicians understand the key parameters for selecting an OTDR. Choosing the right device not only solves this new generation of datacenter testing requirements, but also helps professionals work efficiently, and increase the reliability and value of the enterprise fiber network. Learn More! The original iPhone - the blueprint for the modern day smartphone A famous quote from Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky reads, "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." In designing the original iPhone, you might say that Apple took this line of thinking to heart. Indeed, Steve Jobs once referenced the aforementioned Gretzky quote as being one he particularly loves. And when Steve Jobs showed off the iPhone for the first time, it was clear... Read More CIOs Need to Evolve or Be Left in the Dust The centralized IT function of old is under tremendous pressure from trends such as cloud computing, proliferation of consumer-focused mobile devices in the enterprise and Big Data analytics. According to a report by The Economist, as these trends erode the entrenched IT structure, CIOs and their teams must better align themselves with business needs or find themselves put out to pasture. Read More Sonus seeks to unify unified communications Sonus Networks is hoping to parlay its session border controllers from obscure infrastructure for carriers into the engine that lets corporate IT pros better integrate their disparate unified communications platforms, but first it needs to get service providers on board. Read More US Navy's high-resolution radar can see individual raindrops in a storm The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers said recently that a Navy very high-resolution Doppler radar can actually spot individual raindrops in a cloudburst, possibly paving the way for new weather monitoring applications that could better track or monitor weather and severe storms. In the news: Hot high-tech thingamajigs Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Proven Value with the Oracle Database Appliance This executive brief highlights the data management challenges a California-based organization faced and illustrates how their chosen solution resulted in cost savings and in better overall use of IT resources - and exceeded all expectations. Learn More! Google's Nexus Q: A failed Apple TV clone I wanted to like Google TV. The first models really don't work that well. I really wanted to like Google's Nexus Q streaming media player. It was supposed to be a new take on bring Internet video to your TV. It's not. Feh! Read More Cool Tools: Pivothead Video Eyewear Keith Shaw takes a quick look at Pivothead Video Eyewear, which lets you record HD video and take 8MP photos from a camera located between the two lenses. The $350 glasses will be available in July. Read More Tablets, smartphones continue to drive growth as sales recede Mid way through 2012, tablets continue to be hot items for consumer electronics buyers, but as market penetration increases, one Consumer Electronics Association analyst thinks that growth will slow. Google announced its Nexus 7 tablet at Google I/O. Read More Cloud adoption pushes storage virtualization Storage hypervisors are increasingly being used to virtualize storage hardware to allow for disparate infrastructures to be centrally managed. Read More Red Hat unveils hybrid cloud, PaaS plans Red Hat is planning to roll out a number of product sets for building hybrid clouds over the next few months, the company announced Wednesday at the Red Hat Summit conference in Boston. Read More LightSquared's Falcone charged with securities fraud The hedge fund that owns most of troubled mobile startup LightSquared has been rocked by securities fraud charges filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More
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