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	Supercomputing needs to deliver 'real-life value,' senator says At the Argonne National Lab on Monday, a dedication ceremony was held for the Mira supercomputer, where it was duly noted that it is the world's fifth-fastest system. You cannot mention the world's fifth-fastest system without noting the world's number one system, which is in China. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now In this Issue We want to be surprised, CERN scientist says How Analytics Is Helping IT Vendors Sell Actual Solutions Pluto's moons named Styx and Kerberos, despite vote for Vulcan Sharky: You can pick that up and move it too Jonny Evans: Apple's victory is complete Amazon Kindle tops yearly Japan e-reader sales in five months Apple's iWatch trademark filings spotted in Taiwan, Mexico Mozilla's Firefox OS smartphones do matter -- to developers and buyers WEBCAST: IBM Leveraging SaaS to Drive Innovation and Results Learn how sales, finance, marketing, procurement, and supply chain leaders are leveraging SaaS to become more agile and serve the customer better. Learn More. We want to be surprised, CERN scientist says The Large Hadron Collider is currently undergoing some major upgrading, which will bring scientists closer than ever before to the secrets of the universe when the particle accelerator is up and running again in 2015. Read More How Analytics Is Helping IT Vendors Sell Actual Solutions For decades, IT vendors have offered small 's' solutions that were really bundles of hardware, software and services that they wanted to sell regardless of what customers actually needed. Now firms such as Dell, IBM and EMC are using analytics to help customers decide which products are best for their needs. Oracle, HP and others struggling with big 'S' solutions may get left behind. Read More Pluto's moons named Styx and Kerberos, despite vote for Vulcan The International Astronomical Union vetoed a public vote to name one of Pluto's two most recently discovered moons Vulcan and named the moons Styx and Kerberos. Read More Sharky: You can pick that up and move it too User calls IT support asking for help because she can't get up to the top of the screen with her mouse, says a pilot fish in the loop. But it turns out the usual solution isn't all that's needed. Read More WHITE PAPER: TEKsystems Attributes of Successful Mobile Outsourcing Partnerships TEKsystems commissioned IDG to survey Computerworld's audience regarding their organizations' mobility strategy, the approaches they have pursued or are pursing in implementing mobile technology within their organization and the various ways providers have addressed or plan to address select mobility obstacles. . Learn More Jonny Evans: Apple's victory is complete Apple's victory is complete. The company has set the bar for PC and mobile device design, and has influenced the design process across the entire technology industry. Apple [AAPL] has defined the technology industry. Read More Amazon Kindle tops yearly Japan e-reader sales in five months Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader has dominated the competition in Japan since its launch last year, according to new research, showing the company's low pricing and powerful brand may have overcome its late entrance into the market. Read More Apple's iWatch trademark filings spotted in Taiwan, Mexico Apple has filed for the 'iWatch' trademark in two more countries - Mexico and Taiwan, signaling that the company could be preparing to launch a smart watch. Read More Mozilla's Firefox OS smartphones do matter -- to developers and buyers Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich described keen interest shown by 8 million Web developers in the Firefox OS, and said that 20-plus smartphone makers and wireless carriers plan to sell devices running the OS to first-time buyers globally, initially in markets where low-cost phones are in demand. Read More
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