7 cool consumer technologies coming soon to a cubicle near you

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	7 cool consumer technologies coming soon to a cubicle near you 3D printing, gamification, digital assistants. The list is long of consumer technologies poised to remake the enterprise. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Showcase Your Company's Leadership Share your story and gain recognition for your leadership. Nominations are now being accepted for the first annual VMware Innovation Awards, produced by Computerworld. Categories include: Cloud, Mobility, Software-Defined Data Center, Transforming the Workforce with New Tech. Learn more. In this Issue 'Dual personality' could morph into Jekyll and Hyde for Samsung and BlackBerry To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics Jonny Evans: Apple's $17b debt product launch: is it ethical? Andrew Litt: The power of information in the new consumer health insurance market Novell offers mobile file sharing for the enterprise Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone Amazon Web Services launches new certification program 10gen expands MongoDB with storage service Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition Richi Jennings: IBM makes feeble movie about a boy #MadeWithAtoms WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation Scalable Performance to Enterprise Applications The growing disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualized, and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application performance. Read Now! 'Dual personality' could morph into Jekyll and Hyde for Samsung and BlackBerry BlackBerry and Samsung have separately launched security and management software with dual-personality features for their latest Z10 and Galaxy S4 smartphones, both designed to meet the demands of a growing BYOD marketplace. Read More To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering $17 billion in bonds, the biggest non-bank bond offering in history, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Read More Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday. Read More Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's $17b debt product launch: is it ethical? It's legal of course, don't get me wrong, but is it really ethical? That's the question I just cannot resolve as I consider Apple and its record $17 billion bond sale. But is it a sale or an attempt to limit tax liability? I'll allow someone cleverer at this sort of financial stuff than I to explain. Read More Andrew Litt: The power of information in the new consumer health insurance market Reducing individual risk in the new health insurance market will require an effective partnership among consumers, providers and health insurers. And a free flow of information, more than just claims data, will be at the heart of that partnership. Read More WHITE PAPER: serVelocity Is Your Services Organization Leaving Money on the Table? Fully adopting today's service automation technology provides executives the visibility they require to increase profitability at a time when it is sorely needed. Visibility enables actions that optimize key Services margin levers where even small improvements equate to significant bottom line and strategic impact for the company. Learn more. Novell offers mobile file sharing for the enterprise In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Google Drive. Read More Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the U.S. can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets. Read More Amazon Web Services launches new certification program Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers to get proof of their cloud know-how. Read More 10gen expands MongoDB with storage service Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store. Read More Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majority stake in the company, according to reports. Read More Richi Jennings: IBM makes feeble movie about a boy #MadeWithAtoms Atom manipulation makes for world record. IBM produces the worst animated movie I've ever seen. Terrible production values, laughable plot, and awful soundtrack. At least it's mercifully short. Two thumbs down. Still, it does at least show what's possible when you manipulate and photograph individual atoms. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers think and make Heisenberg gags. Read More
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