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	Video: Top Gadgets of 2012 In another video news report from the IDG News Service, Nick Barber provides us with a year-in-review look at the top gadgets from 2012. What was your favorite gadget of the year? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial In this Issue The 12 days of IT 10 killer PC upgrades for less than $250 Buying Guide: 2012 Macs Smartphones out-rate laptops for young adults Microsoft puts SkyDrive app on Xbox360 WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Managing Application Performance and Availability A review of virtualized application performance characteristics and three ways to deploy the capabilities of a Coyote Point an Equalizer ADC to significantly enhance the availability and performance of virtualized applications. View Now The 12 days of IT Gibbs puts an IT spin on the 12 days of Christmas 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! 10 killer PC upgrades for less than $250 The holidays present an excellent opportunity toA trick out your laptop or desktop PC, especially ifA Santa, your boss, or your favorite gift-giver directs a sudden influx of cash your way. And even if your holiday haul was heavy on sugarplums and light on spending money, you still don't have to break the bank to add some meaningful system upgrades. These days, you can stretch your PC upgrading dollar farther than ever before--as the items on our list clearly demonstrate. Here are ten meaningful hardware upgrades with a ceiling of roughly $250 (and in some cases a lot less) each. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Transforming Enterprise Application Deployment This white paper reviews the capabilities of HP's scale-up family of ProLiant Servers and shows how legacy IBM Power System customers can move their applications to HP ProLiant Servers to reduce expenses – without compromising application scalability, performance or reliability. Learn More Buying Guide: 2012 Macs It's the holiday shopping season, and if you're reading this article, you're thinking about buying a new Mac and in need of a little guidance. Fortunately, we've tested (almost) every standard-configuration Mac model currently in Apple's lineup. We're quite familiar with Apple's Macs, and we're happy to help you choose the right Mac for you. Read More Smartphones out-rate laptops for young adults Smartphones are more important to young adults in the U.S. and three other countries than laptops, desktops or tablets, according to a survey of 1,800 18- to 30-year-old users in 18 countries. Read More Microsoft puts SkyDrive app on Xbox360 A new SkyDrive app for Microsoft's Xbox 360 allows users to upload content to Microsoft's cloud storage service from PCs and mobile devices, and then view it on the game console. Read More
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