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	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 WEBCAST: Red Hat The Five Must-Haves of Big Data Storage Join this webinar to learn four distinct factors contributing to the challenge of storing big data including volume, variety, scale, and portability. We'll also cover the five elements a storage system must have in order to meet these challenges. View Now In this Issue Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost Think tablets are popular? Shipments explode in first quarter Long-distance CPR: NASA revives Mars rover Opportunity Think different: Apple's $17B debt offers stark contrast to 1996's junk bonds MediaTek aims to boost low-cost Android smartphone performance AMD creates new custom chip business unit to look beyond PCs Seagate's Central hits a home run in the NAS game Action! Big Blue enters film biz with atomic movie 7 cool consumer technologies coming soon to a cubicle near you WHITE PAPER: 8x8 Virtual Office Pro VoIP and Unified Communications Solution Download the results of an extensive, independent evaluation of 8x8 Virtual Office cloud communications solution recently completed by industry analyst firm Wainhouse Research. Read now! Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance. Read More Think tablets are popular? Shipments explode in first quarter Tablet shipments exploded by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said. Read More Long-distance CPR: NASA revives Mars rover Opportunity NASA engineers have brought a long-running Mars rover out of stand-by mode after the robot ran into trouble last month. Read More Think different: Apple's $17B debt offers stark contrast to 1996's junk bonds Apple's record-setting $17 billion bond offer this week stood in stark contrast to the company's darkest days, when in 1996 its millions in notes were rated as junk because investors wondered if the company would survive a thrashing by Microsoft Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS Reimagining the Possible with Data Analytics On the cusp of an analytics revolution, it highlights the findings of a two-year global study, detailing the success factors required to excel in analytics and offers a framework to show other organizations how to maximize the use of analytics. Learn More MediaTek aims to boost low-cost Android smartphone performance Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip, the MT6572. Read More AMD creates new custom chip business unit to look beyond PCs Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. Read More Seagate's Central hits a home run in the NAS game Shaw reviews the Seagate Central network-attached hard drive. Read More Action! Big Blue enters film biz with atomic movie IBM enters Guinness Book with world's smallest stop-motion movie made with atoms. Read More 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
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