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	AMD eyes server revival with aggressive new approach To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is adopting an aggressive strategy whose goals include the introduction of new ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. Read More WEBCAST: Workday The Cloud: The Platform of Choice for the Enterprise. As cloud computing infiltrates the enterprise and transforms the business, the CIO's role is also experiencing a transformation. This webcast focuses on how cloud trends arechanging the CIO mindset and how cloud SaaS fosters a cost-effective, productive, and efficient enterprise. View Now In this Issue Woz worries about iPhone rivals One reliable prediction for 2013: BYOD still a bear for IT Michael Horowitz: How far has Microsoft fallen? Danes invest $4.4M in eye-control system for tablets, smartphones Jonny Evans: What customers think: Apple sells 2 million iPhone 5s in China SSD prices continue to plunge EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo Softbank, satellite making phone for use in earthquakes Richi Jennings: Cisco to dump failed Linksys unit, say rumor-mongers RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. Woz worries about iPhone rivals Apple co-founder talks about growing smartphone market, reflects on Apple's past Read More One reliable prediction for 2013: BYOD still a bear for IT Next year could well be the year that many IT leaders finally start to get their mobile computing management house in order. But it will be severa more before the get a handle on it, one analyst said. Read More Michael Horowitz: How far has Microsoft fallen? The Surface with Windows RT tablet has fallen off the radar screen.    Read More Danes invest $4.4M in eye-control system for tablets, smartphones Danish company The Eye Tribe is leading a new project that will make it possible to control smartphones and tablets using eye movements. Read More Jonny Evans: What customers think: Apple sells 2 million iPhone 5s in China Apple continues to suffer from unusually one-sided reporting as to its business affairs: headlines such as "Only two people wait for iPhone 5 launch at Beijing Apple Store," proliferate while the real news -- that the company sold two million iPhones on that product's first three days on sale seem masked by the spin. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud - Learn How! This white paper discusses how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, & run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Learn More! SSD prices continue to plunge Solid-state drive pricing has dropped about 30% this year, reaching what researchers call the magic price point of $1-per-gigabyte of capacity, according to information from IHS iSupply and Dynamite Data Read More EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X In its Project X initiative, EMC is developing flash storage for use throughout data centers and is developing software to tie all of an enterprise's flash equipment together. Read More Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). Read More Softbank, satellite making phone for use in earthquakes Softbank will soon offer a new satellite phone for use in earthquakes and other natural disasters. Read More Richi Jennings: Cisco to dump failed Linksys unit, say rumor-mongers People with (ahem) "knowledge of the situation" say that Cisco is about to sell its Linksys business unit. Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) bought Linksys almost ten years ago, as part of a strategy to move into consumer and small-business products. Sadly for Cisco CEO John Chambers (pictured), that strategy has lost money; this sale will be the latest in a line of closures and divestitures of Cisco's low-end businesses. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shed few tears for the purveyor of shoddy products that Linksys has become. Read More
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