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 WHITE PAPER: VCE Rompetrol Case Study Vblock Systems enable operational excellence and the birth of a new business. Learn More. In this Issue Oracle lands $100M ERP project covering 34 colleges Softbank won't raise its offer for Sprint, CEO rips Dish's bid AU Optronics exec sentenced in LCD price-fixing case HP creates Converged Systems unit, realigns server ops BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job WHITE PAPER: Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What? One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized datacenters. Read the Report Oracle lands $100M ERP project covering 34 colleges Oracle has won a US$100 million ERP project that will replace legacy systems at 34 colleges in Washington state, in a deal that highlights the continued relevance of its PeopleSoft product as it tries to convince customers to adopt its next-generation Fusion Applications. Read More Softbank won't raise its offer for Sprint, CEO rips Dish's bid Softbank's CEO, in a battle with Dish Network to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel, slammed Dish's $25.5 billion offer, saying it is based on "imaginary" numbers and would create a company with "insane" amounts of debt. Read More WEBCAST: HOSTING How The Cloud Threatens Midsize Enterprises A recent study showed 92% of IT pros recognize that moving to the cloud provides a competitive edge, but only 20% plan to get there. The failure to close that Cloud gap poses a serious threat. Learn More AU Optronics exec sentenced in LCD price-fixing case A former executive with AU Optronics was sentenced Monday to serve two years in prison and pay a $50,000 fine for participating in a worldwide LCD screen price-fixing conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Read More HP creates Converged Systems unit, realigns server ops Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it has created a business unit that will deal in purpose-built systems based on specific applications and usage models, and also announced the reorganization of its server unit. Read More BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes. Read More
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