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5 Reasons You Can Finally Ditch BlackBerry
BlackBerry 10 smartphone sales have been disappointing, and last week the company announced that it's essentially up for sale. Bad news aside, five key industry trends suggest that BlackBerry's purported advantages no longer matter. Read More

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Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences
Whether you are in retail, hospitality, healthcare, transportation, or another industry, keeping and attracting customers is crucial to the success of your organization. Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences can help you improve customer loyalty and increase revenue. Learn more.

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WEBCAST: IBM and Intel

IBM Delivers Innovation On New x86 Systems and Solutions
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:00 PM EDT You need an IT infrastructure that provides scalability, performance and efficiency tailored to the specific goals of your business. Join us on September 10 to learn more about IBM's new innovation designed to provide the performance and efficiency required for today's workloads. Learn More

Products of the week 8.19.13
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as CA and HP. Read More

Microsoft dumps ad agency touting Windows 8, Surface
As Windows 8 struggles to take off, Microsoft has decided to hire a new ad agency to handle the digital promotion of both the operating system and Microsoft Surface tablets. Read More

When will software testing be truly mobile?
As I'm sure you already know, a monumental shift from desktop to mobile is upon us. Not only have consumer applications started leaving the desktop behind, but B2B applications are also starting their migration – like a flock of elderly pelicans, they spread their wings to follow the younger seafowl. Read More

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2013 Cloud Computing Survey Results
We surveyed more than 500 organizations to uncover what they are looking for in a cloud solution, what their top concerns are, and how they respond to the risks associated with this trend. Download this report and begin your journey to the cloud today. Read Now

Droid Ultra deep-dive review: Bigger, but not necessarily better
Verizon's Motorola Droid Ultra has a larger display and a couple of other features, but that doesn't put it ahead of its smaller cousin, the Moto X. Read More

Smartphone interference tackled by Kansas startup
Future smartphones could gain numerous benefits from algorithms to fight interference, developed by a little-known startup in Lawrence, Kansas, that last week drew closer to implementing the technology in devices. Read More

Google pushes Glass release date back to 2014
Google sources have backed away from earlier projections that the company's Glass wearable computer would ship later this year. Read More

WEBCAST: Egnyte

The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing
Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now!

The dangers of QR codes for security
A large number of end-user computers are mobile devices and the lion's share of those are smartphones. APTs are increasingly targeting the mobile market. Read More

Pricing a low-cost iPhone: How 'cheap' is cheap?
Though still unsubstantiated, a low-cost iPhone is now widely seen as a possible product announcement in early September, along with a new high-end phone. And it's finally possible to create a coherent explanation of why such a move makes sense for Apple in 2013. Read More

INSIDER

VMware CEO talks software-defined data centers, OpenStack and dueling Amazon
As a top executive at Intel and EMC, Pat Gelsinger helped build the data centers of today. Now, as CEO of VMware, he's promising to deliver the data centers of tomorrow. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Gelsinger spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant and Network World Senior Writer Brandon Butler about what he's accomplished one year into his tenure, and why the company is uniquely positioned to deliver on the vision of software-defined data centers. Gelsinger detailed the company's plans for its upcoming infrastructure-as-a-service offerings and how it will out-duel early leader Amazon in that market. He also discussed VMware's plans to simplify mobility and explained how, rather than threatening the company, OpenStack is widening VMware's market. (Oh, one other thing about OpenStack: He doesn't see it gaining traction in the enterprise.) Gelsinger also shared thoughts on VMware's competitors and discussed how he'll work with former VMware CEO Paul Maritz's new Pivotal spin off. Read More

Microsoft products you may not know were acquisitions
Microsoft usually makes small purchases, but occasionally those small purchases pay off huge. Read More

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Celebrating Unix heroes

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