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Microsoft makes a play for the living room with Xbox One
Microsoft is making a big play for the living room with a new Xbox console that marries games with live TV, Internet browsing, music and Skype. Read More

WHITE PAPER: CDW

Software Asset Management: Practices for Success
This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now

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WHITE PAPER: IBM

Using Services to Support a New Generation of ERP
Top organizations are looking for a new generation of ERP that supports multi-tiered businesses, is easy to use, flexible, and powerful enough to support a growing organization. Learn More. Learn More.

Microsoft may be scanning your Skype messages
If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them. Read More

Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day
A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. Read More

AMD willing to embrace Android
Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x
According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now!

Microsoft's Windows release schedule is in need of a change
Microsoft made a lot changes following the Vista fiasco. One of them was the promise to release a new operating system every three years. The gap between XP and Vista was six years, and in that time technology advanced significantly. Read More

Privacy and penny-pinching points of view about Xbox One
Meet Xbox One, which some fans are saying will be a killer; others are underwhelmed and saying it's a disaster. It goes after the TV watchers as well as gamers. Besides gaming, the Xbox One system "will allow users to watch live TV, make group video calls on the TV via Skype, and search the Web." Microsoft boasted, "This is the beginning of truly intelligent TV." Read More

HP's Envy Rove 20-inch 'tablet' tackles Windows 8 desktop PC woes
Windows 8 has not found wide adoption among desktop users, so HP has announced a new portable all-in-one and lowered the price of touch PCs so users can take advantage of the operating system. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP

6 Steps to Application Performance Optimization
Poor application performance can cost more than you think. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates reports that it can exceed $1 million per hour in large enterprises. Read Now!

Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network
Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show. Read More

Citrix links cloud-based storage to SharePoint and Azure
Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure. Read More

Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers in two regions
Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face of natural disasters. Read More

Dell replays Windows 8 blame card as PC sales slide
Dell last week again blamed Windows 8 for contributing to a decline in PC sales revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. Read More

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