The danger of the smartphone utopia trap

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	JR Raphael: The danger of the smartphone utopia trap A highly contagious condition is circulating among Android enthusiasts. Have you fallen victim to the smartphone utopia trap? Read More WHITE PAPER: Moovweb Why Responsive Design Isn't Good Enough… And How to Fix It Mobile is changing everything for your company but do you know the keys to mobile web development that will really work for your customers and employees? Read Now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Here's why Bill Gates could be considered a visionary and Steve Jobs only a follower Richi Jennings: Google Chrome: Embraces, extends and extinguishes IE Peter Eicher: Will we ever use flash drives for enterprise backup? Sharky: This is why offshoring the help desk won't work WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Top Reasons Why More People Choose EMC Backup for Oracle It's all about choice. We are the first and only vendor to offer full DBA control of backup, recovery and replication for Oracle. This means your backup team or your DBAs can back up your Oracle environment - the choice is theirs! Learn More Preston Gralla: Here's why Bill Gates could be considered a visionary and Steve Jobs only a follower Conventional wisdom holds that Bill Gates is a heads-down, grind-it-out geek, while the true visionary of the tech era was Steve Jobs. In fact, though, there's an argument that the opposite is the case: Gates was the true visionary, while Jobs was a follower. So argues the afterword of the re-issued book "Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America," and there's a good deal of truth in it. Read More Richi Jennings: Google Chrome: Embraces, extends and extinguishes IE Also new policy controls. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is playing Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) at its old game. The new version of Chrome allows IT shops to loosen their dependency on ancient versions of Internet Explorer. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers raise an ironic eyebrow. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc The Total Cost of Email In this white paper, we'll explore the true costs of fragmented email management and uncover how to reduce those costs with a cloud-based solution for email management. Learn More. Peter Eicher: Will we ever use flash drives for enterprise backup? Is flash the answer for the storage needs of the future? Read More Sharky: This is why offshoring the help desk won't work This pilot fish has just started working in his first IT help-desk job when a user walks into his office complaining that she can't get logged on. Fish checks, then unlocks her locked account -- but the user still can't log on. Read More
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