10 PC products that look like science fiction

	Help desk, rebooted: Social, mobile remake tech support | Raw video: Baumgartner jumps from edge of space while eight million watch live
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	10 PC products that look like science fiction Think of them as PC peripherals on the cutting edge of industrial design Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue Help desk, rebooted: Social, mobile remake tech support Raw video: Baumgartner jumps from edge of space while eight million watch live ISS captures SpaceX Dragon capsule Microsoft alleges Google, Motorola's Android phones infringe its mapping patent Nokia Nearby app adds location services to smartphones Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 rejected by consumers post-Mapgate... Survey says? Force-sensing touchpad to reach ultrabooks next year Asus' dual-screen Taichi tablet-laptop hybrid on sale for $1299 U.S. Mac sales join industry tailspin RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Help desk, rebooted: Social, mobile remake tech support At least one analyst is predicting social, mobile and cloud technologies will spell the end of the corporate help desk. Not so fast, say corporate IT leaders. Read More Raw video: Baumgartner jumps from edge of space while eight million watch live Daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumped from 128,097 feet Sunday, shattering a record that has stood for more than 50 years. He reached an estimated speed of 834 miles per hour (1,342.8 km/h) or Mach 1.24. Read More ISS captures SpaceX Dragon capsule Dragon being captured by Space Station, SpaceX Mission Control during capture and Dragon hatch door opening by astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide Read More Microsoft alleges Google, Motorola's Android phones infringe its mapping patent Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties meet each other in court on Thursday, the regional court of Munich said. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. Nokia Nearby app adds location services to smartphones Nokia's Nearby location app has exited beta testing, and is now available in the phone maker's app store, as it continues to push location services across its range of phones. Read More Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 rejected by consumers post-Mapgate... Survey says? The iPhone 5 / iOS 6 Maps features are terrible, say pundit after pundit. So it must be affecting sales, right? Not according to a new survey; it seems Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) can't make the shiny things fast enough. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers run the numbers from ChangeWave/451's survey. Read More Force-sensing touchpad to reach ultrabooks next year Researchers at the User Interface Software Technology conference this week demonstrated unique projects that took advantage of a new, pressure-sensitive "forcepad" that could debut in ultrabooks as soon as next year. Read More Asus' dual-screen Taichi tablet-laptop hybrid on sale for $1299 Asustek's innovative laptop-tablet hybrid called Taichi is now on sale in the U.S. starting at $1,299. Read More U.S. Mac sales join industry tailspin Even Apple has been hit by the computer sales tailspin in the U.S., research firms IDC and Gartner said yesterday. Read More
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