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10 Web Services That Make Your Life Easier
There are thousands of apps and Web services out there. New ones are hitting the Internet as you read this. Here are 10 bona fide tools that can actually improve your life. Read More
WEBCAST: HP
Meg Whitman presents Unlocking IT with Big Data
Today, the industry is at an inflection point - driven by a triple storm of Big Data, cloud, and mobility; and in this new environment, security is paramount. The New Style of IT is about how businesses and IT leverage this rapid change for enterprise growth. Learn More
WEBCAST: VMware | IBM
Virtualization Infrastructure With IBM and Vmware
For over a decade, IBM and VMware have collaborated to deliver integrated virtualization solutions to tens of thousands of customers around the globe. Learn More
Thin, light, wire free -- Intel's vision for your next PC
Intel wants your future laptop to be thinner than an iPad and, like the iconic tablet, to be wire free. And it should cost less too.The company is developing chips and wireless technologies to meet those goals, with the first fruits of that development available starting this coming year-end holiday said, said CEO Brian Krzanich on an earnings call this week in which he discussed the company's vision of future PCs. About 600 million PCs worldwide are more than four years old and due for upgrades, so the development efforts come at a fortuitous time.Tablets thinner and lighter than the iPad that could be used as full PC replacements will be on store shelves by the end of this year, Krzanich said. Laptops and desktops with the faster and more power-efficient Broadwell processor will be widely available in the first quarter next year. Further in the future, Intel sees Chromebooks with mobile broadband connectivity and PCs that are wire free.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
You better not shout, you better not cry, 'cause you can't leave Comcast without telling 'em why
Ryan Block, the former head of Engadget and founder of GDGT and who is now at AOL, just wanted to cancel his Comcast service. But when he called Comcast the rep wasn't about to let him off easily unless Block explained exactly why he wanted to cancel his account. A Mexican stand-off ensued with the rep aggressively and repeatedly demanding an explanation and Block, with what I can only classify as superhuman restraint (I would have been spitting teeth after a couple of minutes of this BS), politely declining to answer every time.Fortunately for us, ten minutes after the start of the call when it became clear this was no ordinary customer service call, Block had the presence of mind to record the exchange which went on for another 8 minutes:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Mapping broadband everywhere
The Internet Society and Aalto University of Finland have rolled out a free service/phone app dubbed Netradar designed to show who the broadband haves and have nots are around the world.Smartphone users are encouraged to download the app, which works on iPhones, Android, Windows, BlackBerry and other devices, so that measurements of their Internet access (bandwidth and latency) can be consolidated anonymously with those of others to provide a big global picture. Netradar.org Color-coded Netradar map of Internet access diversity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Polycom Showcases Video Collaboration Advances
During a recent visit to Polycom's executive briefing center in San Jose, we got to see some cool demos that are helping Polycom continue to differentiate its service. Polycom has been well known for its high-end video conferencing and collaboration room systems for some time, but we were reminded during the visit that the company also has a wide range of systems that are compatible with less-structured environments. Read More
Developing a smart approach to SMAC security
Few security executives at global enterprises—or even at smaller organizations—have not had to deal with issues related to social media, mobile technology, big data/analytics, or cloud computing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
Pennsylvania, a 'Fortune 20' state, consolidates IT
Pennsylvania has signed a deal with Unisys to consolidate its data centers and create an on-demand, cloud computing environment. The just-announced seven-year deal was valued at $681 million by Unisys.Pennsylvania, which describes itself as "the equivalent of a Fortune 20 organization," plans to consolidate seven data centers into two. Its current data center operation is described in planning documents as decentralized and lacking standard processes.The state now has more than 53,000 square feet of raised data center floor space, some 6,000 servers and 2,700 TB of storage, according to request-for-proposals documents. The state's largest data center is 24,000 square feet; the smallest is 1,000 square feet.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Open user group specs out SDN expectations
The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) this week established working groups to address what it sees as the biggest pain points in networking and issued a white paper describing the current challenges and future needs.The group, which includes some of the biggest end user IT organizations in the industry, is looking to persuade network vendors to meet its requirements for greater multivendor interoperability and diversity, and relieve the bottleneck networking currently presents in moving IT operations forward. And ONUG will vote on the best remedy with its dollars.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Military robot one step closer to the battlefield
The robotic mule, which was developed by Boston Dynamics for $2 million can traverse rugged terrain while carrying much of the Marines' load. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb Read More
Senate passes bill allowing mobile phone owners to unlock devices
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would allow mobile phone customers to unlock their devices for the purposes of switching carriers.The Senate, late Tuesday, approved the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act by unanimous consent.The bill would overturn a January 2013 decision by the Library of Congress that removed legal protections for mobile phone unlocking. The library had previously allowed phone unlocking as an exception to the security circumvention provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA gives the Library of Congress rule-making authority over the anti-circumvention provisions in the law.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Would Jobs have made IBM deal? Not in '95
How might Steve Jobs have viewed the major enterprise partnership announced yesterday by Apple and IBM? A clip for a 1995 interview indicates he might not have been enthusiastic, at least back then. Read More
Cisco customers are brutally consolidating too
CEO Chambers says only 1/3 of large enterprises will be around in 20 years Read More
Yahoo, you're dead! 8 services in Yahoo's graveyard
More casualties of Yahoo's attempts to narrow the focus Read More
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