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	Cisco reportedly shopping Linksys division Cisco is reportedly looking to unload Linsys, the maker of wireless routers for consumers that the company acquired almost a decade ago. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems Save on Servers with Cisco SmartPlay Offer of the month! For a limited time only, save up to $1,215 instantly on a pre-configured Cisco UCS C22 M3 Rack Server featuring two Intel® Xeon® processors, 32GB of memory, one LSI MegaRAID 9265CV-8i w/ 1 GB data cache, Super Cap RAID card, and two 300GB SAS HDDs. Click to continue In this Issue The irrepressible evolution of the PC mouse INSIDER Single sign-on moves to the cloud EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X Enterprise IT is on the losing end of Microsoft's CAL price hike Want an iPhone 5? You might get tasered first. Ray Kurzweil joining Google Leveraging Microsoft's SkyDrive for Cloud-based Storage Windows XP's retirement is in doubt, say some experts Nexus 10 review: The so-so Android tablet 16 most anticipated tech products of 2013 Video: Emerging Technology highlights of 2012 Cbeyond launches TotalCloud Phone System 'The Hobbit 2.0' -- How mobile technology would improve J. R. R. Tolkien's famous work WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. The irrepressible evolution of the PC mouse The computer mouse has come a long way -- take a look at a few of its most notable historical milestones Read More INSIDER Single sign-on moves to the cloud We are awash in passwords, and as the number of Web services increases, things are only going to get worse. Trying to manage all these individual passwords is a major problem for enterprise security. Many end users cope by re-using their passwords, which exposes all sorts of security holes. Read More EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X In its Project X initiative, EMC is developing flash storage for use throughout data centers and is developing software to tie all of an enterprise's flash equipment together. Read More Enterprise IT is on the losing end of Microsoft's CAL price hike Microsoft's recent increase in the price of its user client-access licenses (CAL) is a 'lose-lose' deal for enterprise customers but will likely yield a major revenue boost for the vendor. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Want an iPhone 5? You might get tasered first. The demand for iPhone 5s is amazing and the dangers of overseas grey markets appear to have got a Chinese woman from Massachusetts tasered. Really. Read More Ray Kurzweil joining Google Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google. Read More Leveraging Microsoft's SkyDrive for Cloud-based Storage How often do you attach a picture to an email, send it to someone, only to later to want to dig up that same picture to attach and share with someone else? Of course there's Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, etc that all work great for photo sharing. But then for work, you need to share a Word document, PowerPoint presentation, PDF files, and the like which aren't well shared by the Facebook, Instagram,... Read More Windows XP's retirement is in doubt, say some experts Some security researchers wonder if Microsoft will indeed retire Windows XP on April 8, 2014. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Financial Analytics: How IT Leaders Can Help CFOs CFOs rely on their IT leaders to guide them to the tools that help them keep up with the pace of today's business - tools that help them plan, report, measure and analyze data so they can make smarter decisions and drive more predictable business outcomes. Learn More Nexus 10 review: The so-so Android tablet Google's Samsung-made 'pure' Android tablet simply doesn't match up in quality or experience to Samsung's own Note 10.1 Read More 16 most anticipated tech products of 2013 We're not sure some of them are even on the drawing board, but they'd be great to see Read More Video: Emerging Technology highlights of 2012 Read More Cbeyond launches TotalCloud Phone System Cbeyond has announced general availability of its TotalCloud Phone System in the United States. Designed specifically for single or multi-location businesses, the service prioritizes and routes voice traffic over Cbeyond's private IP network to a secure data center. General availability follows a controlled introduction of the TotalCloud Phone System in July 2012. Read More 'The Hobbit 2.0' -- How mobile technology would improve J. R. R. Tolkien's famous work "The Hobbit," J.R.R. Tolkien's famous story of which the movie version opens Dec. 14, was first published in 1937. The world of Middle Earth was set in an indeterminate time, but looked remarkably like an idealized early 19th-century England, though well-stocked with wizards, dwarfs, elves, dragons, trolls, goblins and of course hobbits. But techwise, it was, and is, the Stone Age of Middle Dearth. Read More
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