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	The 'text-friendly' office chair in pictures Gesture, a flexible desk chair from Steelcase, caters to the texting, swiping crowd Read More   WEBCAST: HP & Intel®   Cloud Knowledge Vault According to market research, more than 60 percent of enterprises will have adopted some form of cloud computing by 2013. Learn how your organization can benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and performance that the cloud offers through the short videos and other resources in this HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault. View Now In this Issue Introducing the smart chair designed for mobile workers Apple cuts prices on Macs, takes a jab at PCs First look: Apple iPad Air & more Juniper targets big new switch directly at Cisco Nexus 6000 Firefox community roiled by Java crackdown Why you should indulge your power users' lust for a Mac Pro Ghost of Red Sox past haunts Fenway Park subway stop Office 2003 is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google Docs FBI busts man for pointing laser at Jet Blue, United Airlines jets WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More Introducing the smart chair designed for mobile workers Do you cocoon when you're texting? Or strunch when you're laptop gazing? Does your back ache from hunching over small electronic devices and tapping at tiny keypads? Read More   Apple cuts prices on Macs, takes a jab at PCs Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,299, while the 15-inch model starts at $1,999 Read More   First look: Apple iPad Air & more Apple's hotly anticipated updates for the iPad family were rolled out today at the company's usual stage show in San Francisco, grafting the newest-generation hardware that debuted with the iPhone 5S last month onto the larger form factor. Here's a brief look at the two brand-new tablet models. Read More   Juniper targets big new switch directly at Cisco Nexus 6000 Juniper Networks is expected to soon announce a new QFabric switch for top-of-rack applications that supports Broadcom's Trident II silicon for dense 10/40G Ethernet capabilities and competes directly with Cisco's Nexus 6000. Read More   Firefox community roiled by Java crackdown The Firefox web browser will, henceforth, require users to manually activate Java objects on sites that they visit, Mozilla has confirmed. The change is aimed at improving security and moving away from a dependence on proprietary plug-ins, but critics say it will cause untold headaches for developers, admins and less-technical end-users. Read More   Why you should indulge your power users' lust for a Mac Pro   Most of the fuss at today's big Apple announcement concerned the company's new iPad tablets (a much bigger improvement than the iPhone 5s, IMHO). But I was more interested in the news regarding Apple only remaining desktop computer -- the super-high-powered and super-expensive Mac Pro. Read More   Ghost of Red Sox past haunts Fenway Park subway stop A fellow who plays in my fantasy baseball league flagged this admittedly minor indignity ... and while it's far afield from typical Buzzblog fare, I can't help but share as we anxiously await the beginning of the World Series tomorrow night. Read More   Office 2003 is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google Docs   Market research firm Forrester Research has just published a report that shows Microsoft has little to fear from the free office application suites gunning for Office's dominion, though the company will also have a devil of a time uprooting Office 2003. Forrester surveyed 155 clients about their currently deployed productivity suites in their offices. The survey found Office 2010 is used by nearly... Read More   FBI busts man for pointing laser at Jet Blue, United Airlines jets The FBI says it arrested a man in Portland, Ore., for allegedly pointing a green laser at a JetBlue and United Airlines flight in October. Read More
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