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Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM Devices

Called WOA, this special version of the OS will come bundled with its own version of the Office suite Full Story »
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Windows 8: Assessing IT Risks of a Consumer-Driven Wave

Microsoft is betting big on Windows 8. But will the immense promotional efforts the software giant is putting behind the latest Windows OS pay off? CIO.com's Rob Enderle handicaps the high-stakes game Redmond is playing.

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Buyers Lining Up for Raspberry Pi's $25 PC

Raspberry Pi Foundation's US$25 PC will become available by the end of this month, and buyers hope it could fill in as a low-power desktop, while being an alternative to the more expensive open-source hardware.

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Acer Sues Former CEO Lanci for Breach of Contract

Acer has sued its former CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci in Italian courts for allegedly violating a non-compete clause, the company said Tuesday.

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iPad 3: Predictions and Challenges

iFixit's Kyle Wiens has a darn good track record when it comes to Apple predictions. Here, he opines about the next iPad, foresees broken iPads everywhere, and even hints where post-Steve Jobs innovation might be headed next.

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Lenovo Ordered to Pay €1920 for Making French Laptop Buyer Pay for Windows Too

The court based its judgment on a European Union directive, which campaigners hope will make the ruling applicable elsewhere

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Apple's Dramatic Rise in the Enterprise Tests CIOs

One in five information workers now uses an Apple product for work, says Forrester. Is Microsoft's dominance at an end? One thing is for certain: CIOs must deal with the Apple impact.

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Order to Decrypt Laptop Does Not Violate Defendant's Fifth Amendment, Judge Rules

A federal judge in Colorado ordered a defendant to decrypt her laptop, denying her claim that being forced to so violates her Fifth Amendment rights. The defendant, Ramona Fricosu. claims that being ordered to release the contents of the drive would be essentially testifying against herself in this criminal case of bank fraud.

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Desktop PC Killers: Past, Present, and Future

Is the desktop PC dead? Here are 10 desktop "killers" from the past, present, and future.

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Apple has Become Biggest Buyer of Semiconductors, Gartner Says

Rising sales of smartphones, tablets and laptops pushed up Apple's semiconductor spending

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Wall Street Beat: Enterprise Spending Helps Mixed Quarter for Tech

Google's revenue fell short of analysts' high expectations, but sales of enterprise IT boost results for IBM, Intel and Microsoft.

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Buyers Hang on for Cheaper, Faster Windows 8 Ultrabooks

Ultrabooks are attracting admirers at the Consumer Electronics Show, but some attendees are waiting to buy the thin laptops until prices drop and Windows 8 is released later this year.

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5 Useful Laptop Accessories Spotted At CES 2012

Road warriors can find handy add-ons ranging from bags with built-in chargers to docking stations and tiny mice (or anti-mice).

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A Closer Look At Lenovo's Enterprise and Hybrid Ultrabooks

Cashing in on the ultrabook excitement at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Lenovo has rolled out four of its own slimmed-down models, including one geared specifically for the enterprise.

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AMD Hopes to Take Down Intel's Ultrabooks on Price

Thin-and-light laptops based on the company's upcoming Trinity chips could start at US$500

 
Images captured from conventional surveillance systems are often very poor. But recent advances in digital imaging technology, computers, and networking hardware make it possible to usher in a new level of performance. With a system that leverages the latest technologies and that is designed from end-to-end with the goal of capturing and preserving image quality, the Avigilon High Definition Surveillance System achieves unmatched performance.
Everybody's heard the cliché, "the network is your business." But that's not going to help you choose the best wide area networking service to meet your diverse needs
Learn how your answer to this question compares to your peers by taking this quick poll. See how your peers are dealing with the challenge of ensuring a highly capable server infrastructure as technological shifts impact the application server platform.
With increasing data growth, comes increased need for data security.  The existing DLP model, with a focus on compliance/enforcement is not sufficient as the data discovery and classification capabilities are not granular enough.  Read this paper to find how you can efficiently and accurately manage your risk by rapidly inventorying and classifying your data and then developing remediation workflows that support business needs. 
This paper breaks down attack sources into four categories: external, malicious insiders, accidental insiders, and unknown.
The rapid growth of data and technology is creating challenges for organizations as this digital data is considered to be business communications and must be preserved according the same industry-specific regulations governing the retention and discovery of emails and more traditional forms of electronic communications. This paper examines the role that Data Loss Prevention ("DLP") technology can play in helping organizations address the challenges of locating information in response to electronic discovery.
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.
A simple, cost-effective disaster-recovery solution for virtual environments is high on the agenda for IT organizations as they virtualize more business-critical applications with VMware. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager-the market-leading disaster-recovery product-ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides centralized management of recovery plans, enables nondisruptive testing and automates site-failover processes.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive, complex and unreliable to meet business requirements. As a result, IT departments are hesitant to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications, largely because they are uncertain whether the quality of the protection is really worth its cost. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5 is the market-leading disaster recovery product that addresses this situation for organizations of all kinds. It complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications.
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