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	JR Raphael: Chrome OS reviewed: The final verdict on Google's cloud platform To Chrome OS or not to Chrome OS? After two weeks with Google's new Chromebook and Chromebox, JR Raphael reaches some final conclusions about the cloud platform and its updated hardware. 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 Preston Gralla: Will Windows 7 be the new XP? Richi Jennings: dot-WOW: 'Greedy' ICANN $352M TLD landgrab windfall Leigh Jasper: Five collaboration tasks that mobile access has accelerated Josh Stephens: Back to basics: Duplex and symmetry Jonny Evans: WWDC 2012: Apple's iPhone and the iRobot supply chain Shark Tank: Thoroughly tested RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Final Week to Register! IT Roadmap only comes to Denver once a year so don't miss this opportunity to join hundreds of local colleagues who will gain a year's worth of enterprise-ready ideas, answers, best practices, and key contacts all in one day – in one place. Attend Free. IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 - Colorado Convention Center. Preston Gralla: Will Windows 7 be the new XP? Windows XP was one of Microsoft's greatest successes and greatest failures: A success because it was so rock-solid, a failure because it was so good that many people didn't want to upgrade to Windows Vista. Based on initial looks at Windows 8, Windows 7 may well be the new XP. Read More Richi Jennings: dot-WOW: 'Greedy' ICANN $352M TLD landgrab windfall ICANN can now allocate new top-level domain names (TLDs). It's announced the list of new "Internet suffixes" applied for in its much-delayed process. And there are some surprising entries. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle at ICANN's $352 million application fee windfall. Read More Leigh Jasper: Five collaboration tasks that mobile access has accelerated With 4G speeds coming of age, with new public cloud services coming online seemingly every day, and with the movement of even mission-critical applications to secure cloud services, how mobile workers accomplish their tasks is changing dramatically. Here are five collaboration areas where mobile access is dramatically simplifying and accelerating tasks... 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 Josh Stephens: Back to basics: Duplex and symmetry Over the past few weeks I've been onsite helping some customers update their network architectures and network management strategies. During these discussions I was reminded that there can sometimes be a few gaps in the technical knowledge of network administrators. Read More Jonny Evans: WWDC 2012: Apple's iPhone and the iRobot supply chain "It's hard for me to get emotional as you can see my emotion sensors haven't been programmed yet," said Siri at the beginning of Apple's [AAPL] WWDC event this week. But Siri isn't the only robot inside Cupertino: in future, Apple and its manufacturers will be where the robots live. We're way beyond The Jetsons, here. Read More Shark Tank: Thoroughly tested This pilot fish is responsible for maintaining an application for a big software vendor, and after a recompile discovers a problem in the compiled code. But wasn't this compiler tested? Read More
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