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ReviewPad: workflow for creatives
One of the many remarkable ways that Web technologies have changed how business is done is Web-based "workflow," an online system that manages the sequence of steps required to perform a business process. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA

Exceptional Application Experience
To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper

Defragmentation in Virtualized Environments
Performance corrupting file fragmentation is severely compounded on virtual platforms and threatens to undo most of its efficiency benefits. Coordinating defrag resources between VMs was an insurmountable barrier until recent innovations eliminated conflicts. Learn More

8 must-have Android security apps
Last week's revelation that Google had to remove around 50 malware-infected applications from its Android Market highlighted the downside of the company's "free love" approach to publishing applications where it will let anyone put their app on the market and will only take it down if alerted by a third-party user. Read More

Look-at-me women flocking to Facebook
Women who base their self-worth heavily on appearance are likely to be more promiscuous about sharing photos and friending people online, according to new research from the University at Buffalo about online behavior on social network sites. Read More

'Food porn' at its best: Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook
The $625 'Modernist Cuisine' cookbook is laden with spectacular photography that captures cooking techniques and chemical reactions such as the Leidenfrost effect. Read More


WHITE PAPER: VMware

Key Considerations for Virtual Desktop Deployment
Full optimization of virtualized desktops can provide a huge cost savings. Read these key considerations with regard to storage and learn how NetApp can make more efficient use of disk space via thin provisioning, improve storage utilization by eliminating VM redundancies, and maintain RAID 10 protection with half the disk normally required. Learn more!

Killing e-mail: How one company plans its demise
As fewer people rely on e-mail, one IT services company plans to eradicate e-mail over three years, in favor of social business tools. Read More

Microsoft boosts kill-IE6 campaign with new countdown site
"Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer 6," Microsoft said this week in launching a new site that tracks the progress of pushing IE6 market share below 1%. "10 years ago a browser was born," Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 Countdown site says. "It's name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we're in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it's time to say goodbye." Read More

Your CEO called about CRM: Now what?
The CEO has called and asked for some training on the CRM system. A great opportunity...but there are a hundred things you could train him on. Where do you start, and where do you place your bets? Read More


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Why the Cisco and Citrix Alliance Changes the Game
This live webinar is for you whether you have a desktop virtualization project underway, or you're simply looking for a better understanding of what it takes to successfully design and deploy virtual desktops. Register Now

Big Data mining: Who owns your social network data?
An attractive application of Hadoop and other Big Data technologies is to analyze users' social activities, sometimes without their express knowledge. Read More

5 new ways to build apps for iPhone, Android and Web browsers
Five start-ups unveiled services for building mobile applications and Web services at DEMO Spring 2011, bringing application development capabilities to the masses - or, at least, to people who lack traditional programming and mobile development skills. Read More

Cisco coalition chief says consumers are driving IT
The probability that cloud will be the foundation for all IT in the next 3 to 5 years is 100%, says Michael Capellas, chairman and CEO of Virtual Computing Environment, the company formally known as Acadia. Read More

Microsoft says Windows Phone apps growing
While it sounds miniscule next to Apple's App Store and its more than 350,000 apps, the Windows Phone Marketplace now offers 9,000 apps and games and is growing by an average of 100 apps a day. Read More

Massive data volumes making Hadoop hot
Rapidly growing sores of structured and unstructured data are prompting IT executives to turn to open source Hadoop technology for storage and analysis efforts. Read More



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20 awesome tech products at DEMO
Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011.

Top 10 Chrome OS extensions
Though Google is pitching it as an operating system for netbooks and lightweight notebooks, Chrome OS is essentially the Chrome Web browser bolted on top of a bare minimum version of Linux. The following extensions can improve the user experience of Chrome (OS or browser) to give you some of the functionality found in a traditional operating system.

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