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	Samsung Chromebook review: Google's new $249 computer Google's new $249 Samsung Chromebook finally gets the price right -- so what's the cloud-centric laptop actually like to use? 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 Windows' share of Microsoft sales falls to four-year low Salesforce.com CEO: Windows 8 will mark 'the end' of the Microsoft OS FTC throws down robocall gauntlet: $50,000 for best way to stop annoying calls Tata beats rival Infosys in revenue, profit growth Ericsson lays groundwork for calls from mobile browsers with Bowser Salesforce.com boosts social analytics options in strike at Oracle Microsoft hopes to lure users away from VMware with new migration tool JR Raphael: Sony announces its Jelly Bean upgrade plans Preston Gralla: Microsoft earnings slide highlights problems with Windows 8 JR Raphael: Curious: New Samsung Chromebook doesn't support Netflix Patrick Thibodeau: Threats and technology from Iran Jonny Evans: New components and Apple's eviction of Samsung impacts iPhone 5 supply WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Virtualization and Business Continuity Learn more about Virtualization and Business Continuity using HP´s Converged Storage to develop/enhance business resiliency in VMware Environments. Read Now! Windows' share of Microsoft sales falls to four-year low The Windows division's share of Microsoft's revenue last quarter dropped to a four-year low as Windows 7 sales stalled before the launch of Windows 8, financial data released by Microsoft yesterday showed. Read More Salesforce.com CEO: Windows 8 will mark 'the end' of the Microsoft OS Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will mark "the end" of the computer industry's dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Read More FTC throws down robocall gauntlet: $50,000 for best way to stop annoying calls It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an innovative way to block illegal commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile phones. Read More Tata beats rival Infosys in revenue, profit growth Tata Consultancy Services on Friday reported strong revenue and profit growth in the third quarter, citing a pick-up in discretionary spending by customers. Read More Ericsson lays groundwork for calls from mobile browsers with Bowser Ericsson has launched the world's first WebRTC-compatible browser for mobile devices, which will allow developers to integrate voice and video communications in their Web-based applications. Read More Salesforce.com boosts social analytics options in strike at Oracle Salesforce.com said it has significantly expanded the social analytics options available to customers who use its Marketing Cloud, in its latest move in a race with Oracle to offer businesses the best tools for mining the social Web. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Protecting Enterprise Servers Learn more about the benefits of using HP StoreOnce Backup systems combined with EMC NetWorker to backup enterprise servers. This document also recommmends backup and recovery implementations. Read Now! Microsoft hopes to lure users away from VMware with new migration tool Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that today run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, Hyper-V, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Read More JR Raphael: Sony announces its Jelly Bean upgrade plans Which Sony phones will get Android 4.1, Jelly Bean -- and which will get left behind? Today, we have the answer. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft earnings slide highlights problems with Windows 8 To the surprise of the very few, Microsoft's yesterday reported declining earnings, with 22% less net income than a year ago. A closer look at the numbers shows the challenges Microsoft faces with its design choices for Windows 8. Read More JR Raphael: Curious: New Samsung Chromebook doesn't support Netflix Google's new $249 Samsung Chromebook has a lot of good things going for it, but a curious omission has come to my attention. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Threats and technology from Iran A video that takes you inside a technology and security trade show in Iran. Read More Jonny Evans: New components and Apple's eviction of Samsung impacts iPhone 5 supply Good news: The iPhone 5 is selling in record-setting quantities. Bad news: Apple, or Foxconn, appear to be facing problems raising production to meet demand, while the move to new component manufacturers to replace Samsung is also posing challenges for the iPad company. Read More
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