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	RFID: Befuddled by FUD Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has shown promise as a way to monitor the movement and even the condition of all sorts of objects. 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 6 best desktop PCs of 2012 Dell's acquisitions not yet paying dividends Who's next? Facebook outage follows Gmail outage on Monday INSIDER How IT can become a driver of business growth Survey: 1 in 3 'mission-critical' applications now in cloud Is the cloud the right place for your data warehouse? 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The 6 best desktop PCs of 2012 Some of the features that set these PCs apart are speed, upgrade flexibility, and performance Read More Dell's acquisitions not yet paying dividends Dell's effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy and tries to weave together acquisitions in a coherent manner. Read More Who's next? Facebook outage follows Gmail outage on Monday Just hours after the web exploded with complaints about Gmail being down, Facebook users got their turn to complain late this afternoon. Twitter and other social media sites started popping with posts from Facebook users asking whether the site was down after 5pm eastern time. #Facebook down was trending high on Twitter late Monday afternoon. Read More INSIDER How IT can become a driver of business growth IT departments don't live up to business-driving potential. 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Read More Apple's iMac on the road to irrelevance Sales of Apple's iMac, the computer often credited with saving the company, have peaked and by the end of 2014 will account for approximately 2% of the firm's revenues, analysts now say. Read More Joke Twitter account will tickle Seinfeld fans After a decade-long run that those who agree with me consider the funniest in sitcom history, Seinfeld aired its last episode on May 14, 1998. But what if it hadn't? What if it was still on the air today? Well, that's the premise of a funny new novelty Twitter account called Moden Seinfeld. It's less than 24 hours old and has already attracted more than 28,000 followers. Here's a sample: Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Understanding the Options to Find the Right Fit Wondering which cloud collaboration solution is best for your business? Learn the four key factors you must consider when choosing a supplier--and find the right solution that will enable faster time to market. Read Now Consultancy launches DIY cloud, OpenStack-style Cloud consultancy Mirantis today released a series of support options to help customers launch test or full-scale deployments of OpenStack-powered clouds. Read More The 3 biggest threats to your cloud data Any horror movie fan can tell you the scariest threats are the ones you don't see coming, and the same is true when it comes to threats to cloud data. IT has decades of experience protecting on-premise resources. Virtually no one has even one decade of experience running major SaaS applications, so we should be prepared for some surprises. Read More Criticize Stallman and suffer the wrath of the internet I think we can all agree that Free Software is a glorious thing. The Free Software movement has had an overall extremely positive impact on the tech sector. And one of the chief architects behind this movement, Richard M. Stallman (known as RMS), deserves one heck of a high-five for the work he has put into it over the years. 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