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	Programmer and 'bionic leg' ace 103-story test Software engineer using mind-controlled prosthetic limb scales Chicago tower Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Reasons UC Rollouts Can Fail Complexity, integration issues and user resistance can all raise the cost of a unified communications deployment. This TCO chart from the Aberdeen Group summarizes the true costs of solutions from Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya and ShoreTel. See how they compare to build your budget. Learn more. In this Issue DARPA seeks smart camera that would blend visible, infrared images into a single shot Five Dropbox-savvy apps for iOS Gartner upbeat on big data jobs Election 2012 Live Blog: The technology angle 'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud Products of the week 11.5.12 Review: Apple's iPad Mini 'tailor made' for those who think light 7 free Election Day apps for political junkies Adobe makes a funny video that someone there didn't watch iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Nov. 2 Should wireless carriers use home Internet connections for backhaul? WHITE PAPER: Riverbed CIO's Guide to Advanced Consolidation Consolidating IT infrastructures is a continuing trend, particularly in an uncertain economy with organizations looking to reduce costs. Learn more. DARPA seeks smart camera that would blend visible, infrared images into a single shot Researchers with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to build a clip-on or helmet mounted smart camera system that can meld visible, near infrared, and infrared images into a single shot under all weather and visibility conditions. Read More Five Dropbox-savvy apps for iOS By all accounts, Dropbox rocks. It ranks up there with sliced bread and chocolate fountains, offering simple cloud storage that syncs across your various devices. Read More Gartner upbeat on big data jobs The economic picture that Gartner's head of research painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference was upbeat in a surprising way. Read More Election 2012 Live Blog: The technology angle [View the story "Election 2012 Live Blog: The technology angle" on Storify] Read More 'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud Originally billed as the world's largest telecommunications purchase, the U.S. government's Networx contract is turning out to be chump change for the five carriers involved in the deal. Halfway through its 10-year term, the contract has driven around $2 billion in revenue compared to projections as high as $34 billion for this stage of the program. Read More Products of the week 11.5.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Quest and Symantec Read More Review: Apple's iPad Mini 'tailor made' for those who think light Apple's new iPad Mini delivers a full-fledged iPad experience in a smaller package, making it an ideal option for those who have been wanting a more diminutive Apple tablet, says Michael deAgonia. Read More 7 free Election Day apps for political junkies iOS and Android users alike can get their horse-race fix with these mobile apps. Read More Adobe makes a funny video that someone there didn't watch The video is called "BS detector" and makes fun of marketing buzzwords by ... well, watch: I found the video amusing. Almost as amusing as the fact that it was produced to support something called the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Read More iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Nov. 2 Apple has just begun selling iPhone 5, which it just announced, and yet speculation mounts or possibly leaps, soars, explodes, skyrockets, mushrooms ... well, you get the idea: Everybody is talking about The Date for iPhone 6. Read More Should wireless carriers use home Internet connections for backhaul? In a thought-provoking article on GigaOM, Prakash Sangam of Qualcomm writes that cellular network capacity could be boosted up to a thousand times if households deploy "small cells" (i.e., femtocell technology) to shunt cellular traffic to consumers' DSL and cable Internet connections. Although a boon to cellular capacity, what happens when your neighbor watches the football game on his Android tabled... Read More
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