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	Preston Gralla: Can a Microsoft-built tablet jump-start Windows 8? Microsoft is rumored to be building its own Windows 8 tablets, to be announced this coming Monday. Will that be enough to jump start the company's mobile Windows 8 strategy? Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Evolve Customer Care with Collaboration Using collaboration technology to improve customer service gives your company an opportunity to evolve beyond traditional service models to create better customer relationships. While the telephone will always be an option, many customers want experiences where chat, social media, video and self-service are also part of the norm. Download a new white paper from ZK Research to learn how using collaboration technology can help your organization improve customer responsiveness and provide customers with self-service offerings, leading to greater loyalty. In this Issue Richi Jennings: Phew! U.S. regains #1 supercomputer spot in Top500 Sound Off: Worst places to work Shark Tank: You're welcome WHITE PAPER: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Richi Jennings: Phew! U.S. regains #1 supercomputer spot in Top500 There's relief at hand for nationalistic HPC-watchers. The latest Top500 list shows the U.S. back at #1, after trailing various Asian supercomputers. IBM's latest installation for the mushroom-cloud-computing folks at Lawrence Livermore is to blame, but Intel vows to catch up soon. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask if it can run Crysis. Not to mention: How to retrofy your Mac ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Get the Strategic Partner Advantage Why are infrastructure and operations personnel embracing strategic business partnership models over those that offer cheaper wares? Learn why Forrester Research, Inc. found that dual-sourcing your network may result in a low-cost, low-value infrastructure. Read Report Sound Off: Worst places to work Computerworld's annual Best Places to Work special is out. But here, of course, we want the alternative survey -- the worst places to work! Read More Shark Tank: You're welcome Going through his email, this IT pilot fish sees that he's been BCC'd on a message from a user to her bosses about her group's monthly stats -- and it includes a nice little 'attaboy' for saving users hours of work. Read More
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