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What BlackBerry CEO Heins actually said about tablets

10 Cloud Storage and Backup Services for Your Small Business

IBM premiers world's smallest movie - starring 10,000 atoms

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May 01, 2013
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What BlackBerry CEO Heins actually said about tablets

BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins mentioned in a Bloomberg interview Tuesday that he thought that "In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore." He was quickly denounced for ignoring the iPad, not owning up to the failure of BlackBerry's own PlayBook tablet, and in general for "trashtalking" tablets and "being hopelessly out of touch."

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1. 10 Cloud Storage and Backup Services for Your Small Business

2. IBM premiers world's smallest movie - starring 10,000 atoms

3. Microsoft boosts its Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy rating

4. INSIDER Hot hotspot gateways

5. The 7 elements of a successful security awareness program

6. From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born

7. 8 Tips for Retaining Top IT Talent

8. MIT entrepreneur automates e-commerce ordering process

9. Tibco sharpens mobile apps for its Tibbr enterprise social software

10. Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017, Gartner says

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Evaluating Managed File Transfer in the Cloud

Although most organizations today use email, FTP, scripting, cloud-based document repositories and other tools to send files, these modes of file transport suffer from a number of problems, including a lack of auditability of the sent files, a lack of reporting capabilities, and no visibility into the transfer process. Learn More

10 Cloud Storage and Backup Services for Your Small Business

Growing acceptance of the bring your own device (BYOD) trend and increasing maturity of cloud services has opened the door for businesses to store data online. Of course, not every cloud service is optimized for multiple platforms or supports important capabilities that small businesses and highly savvy power users require. To help you navigate the rapidly changing cloudscape, we outline 10 cloud storage and backup services worth exploring for your business. READ MORE

IBM premiers world's smallest movie - starring 10,000 atoms

Not that it's going to give the next Daniel Day Lewis movie a run for Oscar gold, but IBM today said it had created the world's smallest movie made from thousands of precisely placed atoms on nearly 250 frames of stop motion action. READ MORE

Microsoft boosts its Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy rating

Microsoft is winning praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for taking stronger stands to protect the privacy of customers' data that it stores in its cloud data centers. In its annual "Who's Got Your Back?" report the EFF singles out Microsoft for praise twice – for publishing the number of times it provided data to the government and for requiring warrants before turning over private... READ MORE

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Hot hotspot gateways

Offering Wi-Fi can be a good way to increase return customers and boost revenue in retail stores, hotels, cafes, etc. And it provides convenience for contractors and associates working in corporate offices and conference rooms. Though visitors might have 4G mobile devices or laptops, Wi-Fi can provide a faster, higher quality connection. READ MORE

The 7 elements of a successful security awareness program

A list of action items for CSOs looking to bolster their security awareness programs. READ MORE

From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born

Scarcely two weeks after announcing that it would be shutting its doors later this year, the Fuduntu Linux team on Sunday announced that they have decided instead to end the project immediately. READ MORE

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Advanced WLAN Architectures for BYOD and Beyond

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8 Tips for Retaining Top IT Talent

How do you retain top IT talent in a competitive market? Is it money? Flexibility? Something else? IT recruiters and executives share their top eight suggestions for how you can keep developers, engineers and IT staff happy. READ MORE

MIT entrepreneur automates e-commerce ordering process

Doug Feigelson is a true entrepreneur, one who has built a successful business out of a custom solution he designed as part of another venture. He says he'd rather "fail completely" than sell his company, and, as a third-year computer science student at MIT, he regularly turns down job offers so he can focus on his startup. READ MORE

Tibco sharpens mobile apps for its Tibbr enterprise social software

Tibco is revamping and extending the mobile access to its Tibbr enterprise social networking software, adding support for more smartphones and tablets, and upgrading its mobile user interfaces and functionality. READ MORE

Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017, Gartner says

About half of the world's companies will enact BYOD (bring your own device) programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. READ MORE

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Tackling Peak Traffic Demands in Today's Data Center

As demands on data center infrastructure increase, both IT professionals and their tools will need to adapt. Learn how application delivery controllers (ADCs) can accommodate enterprise needs for performance and scalability while providing a unified platform for application services. Download the report today. Download Now

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