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	10 things we love/hate about the Lenovo ThinkServer Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers looks at vendors responding to the challenge of "any channel" customer engagement. Follow the leaders and find out why more than 100,000 customers worldwide rely on Salesforce CRM applications to transform their businesses. Read More! In this Issue Microsoft takes urgent step today to patch stubborn Internet Explorer flaw Oracle releases emergency Java patch; experts warn flaws may take 2 years to fix Gartner: Tablets are crushing PC sales Cisco at CES: Videoscape + NDS = Unity Apple reportedly cuts Q1 2013 iPhone orders in half Prepare for the Windows 8 app onslaught Bring back the landline phone Smart TVs impress at CES U.S. could fall behind China in R&D spending by 2023 HP heads to court as Austin IT staffers jump ship and move to GM HP appoints networking expert to lead cloud unit in exec shakeup WHITE PAPER: Polycom The Art of Teleworking Read this Polycom whitepaper to learn how successful teleworking is about overcoming the distance between teleworkers and the organization. Video technology advancements have improved the quality of experience for teleworkers and enables efficient collaboration between the team. Read Now Microsoft takes urgent step today to patch stubborn Internet Explorer flaw Look today for a Microsoft patch that repairs a vulnerability in old versions of Internet Explorer that have been exploited in the wild and that persisted despite a Fix It tool issued last month. Read More Oracle releases emergency Java patch; experts warn flaws may take 2 years to fix After the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT warned users to disable Java to stop hackers from taking control of users' machines, Oracle issued an emergency patch on Sunday. Read More Gartner: Tablets are crushing PC sales People are buying tablets to replace old PCs, which explains why PC sales were so dismal over the holidays, according to Gartner. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan, Inc Remote Management and Control for Business Continuity Data centers are susceptible to a variety of disasters, attributable to human error, system breakdowns and other factors. Secure remote access and control are essential to minimizing fallout. This white paper focuses on solutions that allow quick access and recovery of virtually any server. Learn more. Cisco at CES: Videoscape + NDS = Unity Late last year, Cisco unveiled its "Internet of Everything" vision, complete with TV commercials and a whole bunch of marketing activity. The vision of "IoE" is simple. When you live in a world where everything is connected, it significantly changes the way we "work, live, learn and play" (to quote Chambers). The transition to the Internet of Everything will be the biggest change we've seen... Read More Apple reportedly cuts Q1 2013 iPhone orders in half Late on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that Apple recently cut its component orders for the iPhone in half due to weaker than expected demand. Read More Prepare for the Windows 8 app onslaught Over the last few weeks, I've watched numerous people try to analyze what little solid information is available regarding Windows 8's initial sales. Microsoft made an announcement a few weeks back claiming that it sold 40 million licenses in the operating system's first month, and that first-month sales were better than Windows 7's during its launch. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation The Best Path to SaaS Cloud computing is here to stay. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is particularly popular because it can lower cost while enabling business agility. But not all applications are suited to SaaS. In this Webcast you will learn the best applications for SaaS deployment and how to avoid SaaS pitfalls and cost overruns. Learn More. Bring back the landline phone Not too long ago, I documented my decision to shift smartphones. It's rather amazing that I can get mileage out of such a basic decision. Sometimes my job amuses me. On a rather serious note, everything is not smooth sailing. I'm going to depart briefly from the Microsoft talk for this post. Read More Smart TVs impress at CES Television manufacturers had two immersive themes at CES this week. One theme was new, bigger and more brilliant televisions. Some boasted pixel resolution as rich as 4096×2160, so rich it can't be conveyed with words or pictures, one must just see it to understand how immersive the experience is. The others included apps that enhance and improve viewing content and create a more digitally immersive... Read More U.S. could fall behind China in R&D spending by 2023 A new study predicts that 2023 may be the year that America loses its global R&D leadership role. Read More HP heads to court as Austin IT staffers jump ship and move to GM After seeing 18 key IT staffers suddenly quit to take new jobs at General Motors, Hewlett-Packard has asked a Texas court for permission to depose two former managers to find out if employment contracts were violated. Read More HP appoints networking expert to lead cloud unit in exec shakeup Attempting to solidify its cloud computing strategy, and perhaps offering a preview of the future development efforts, Hewlett-Packard has appointed its former cloud networking CTO to lead the company's Converged Cloud business unit. Read More
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