Friday, February 15, 2013

How BlackBerry recreated the mobile user experience with Z10

15 tablet apps for ditching dead trees

DIY Cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

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February 15, 2013
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How BlackBerry recreated the mobile user experience with Z10

With the release of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, the company once known as Research in Motion has staked its future on an ambitious bet: that it could craft a new "mobile user experience" that would, by itself, prove a strong attraction for buyers.

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1. 15 tablet apps for ditching dead trees

2. DIY Cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

3. INSIDER How to get started with MySQL

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5. Tim Cook never wanted to sue Samsung

6. Does Surface Pro's low 'repairability' rating even matter?

7. SUSE Studio: The lazy way to set up new system installs

8. Buffalo sets February launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive

9. Opera acquires Skyfire Labs for faster mobile video delivery

10. B is for browser: An homage to 12 Web greats

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Optimizing Hybrid Networks for SaaS

With the delay and packet loss associated with the Internet and private WANs, SaaS-based applications tend to exhibit erratic performance that can become a barrier to SaaS adoption. Learn more.

15 tablet apps for ditching dead trees

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DIY Cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

Amazon Web Services, seen by many as the market-leading infrastructure cloud computing provider, has a pretty full shelf of virtual machine (VM) image sizes for customers to spin up in its cloud -- 17 separate instance VM sizes are listed on the company's website, in fact. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: AccelOps

BYOD Monitoring Strategies solution brief

This solution brief highlights how AccelOps' integrated security, performance and availability monitoring software allows you to confidently and securely support mobile device access to sensitive corporate IT resources. Read Now

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How to get started with MySQL

An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MySQL database server, along with phpMyAdmin, on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: F5

Top Considerations When Choosing an ADC

Because of its strategic location in the data center network, the selection of an Application Delivery Controller requires careful consideration of both functional and financial factors. This paper explores important elements to evaluate, including network performance, availability and security. Learn More.

Scientists push plan to 'evaporate' asteroids using lasers (for real)

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WHITE PAPER: Symantec

Meeting Backup Challenges

Read this whitepaper to find out how backup administrators can focus on delivering first-rate services, rather than investing time and resources making disparate components work together. Read Now!

Tim Cook never wanted to sue Samsung

As Apple and Samsung remain embroiled in a number of legal disputes around the globe, Steve Jobs' threat to go thermonuclear against Android doesn't seem to be working out in a manner he hoped to envision. Quite the contrary, Android is now more than a worthy adversary to what was once Apple's iPhone domination. And specifically, Samsung's lineup of Android-based smartphones continue to sell like hotcakes.... READ MORE

Does Surface Pro's low 'repairability' rating even matter?

Microsoft seems to have taken a page from Apple's book, and built on it. The company's new Surface Pro tablet was almost impossible to open for the traditional tear-down by iFixIt. READ MORE

SUSE Studio: The lazy way to set up new system installs

I have talked briefly, in past articles, of my laziness. This isn't mere hubris (or the lazy-man's version of hubris...which I could take two seconds to look up in the thesaurus... but... think of all those letters I'd have to type...). I truly am a lazy person. It, in large part, defines who I am as a man. This laziness applies to my computing as well. Specifically: setting up new system installs.... READ MORE

Buffalo sets February launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive

Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world's fastest transfer speed. READ MORE

Opera acquires Skyfire Labs for faster mobile video delivery

Browser developer Opera Software will acquire Skyfire Labs, which develops technology to speed video delivery over mobile networks, the companies said Friday. READ MORE

B is for browser: An homage to 12 Web greats

In honor of Mosaic's 20th birthday, join us for an alphabetical appreciation of 12 of history's great windows on the Web. READ MORE

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Here are 12 security products that you can buy for your hybrid cloud whether they run on premise, in the cloud or a little of both.

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