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	2 Windows 8 touchscreen laptops for tight budgets Windows 8 is workable with a normal display, but better with a touchscreen. If you don't want to spend much on a new laptop, try one of these low-cost systems. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More In this Issue JR Raphael: The new Nexus 7 revisited: 3 weeks with Google's latest tablet Jonny Evans: Why Apple iPads in your schools are essential learning tools Windows Phone's solid growth in danger because of a big app gap with Android, iOS Samsung ships curved OLED TV in US for about $9,000 Intel revives OLPC rivalry with new Android tablet design Windows 8 comes to open-source PCs with GizmoSphere board Lawyers sue Microsoft over Surface RT 'unmitigated disaster' The Xerox character-substitution bug is worse than first thought Michael Horowitz: Shopping for a Chromebook WHITE PAPER: IBM 4 Keys to Optimizing Long-Term Loyalty and Revenue Today, implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) application may not be enough to remain competitive. To gain market share and grow revenue, many companies complement a CRM application with other technologies. Business analytics, predictive analytics, collaboration and data integration can give you more insights about your customers. Read Now JR Raphael: The new Nexus 7 revisited: 3 weeks with Google's latest tablet Is Google's new Nexus 7 tablet actually worth buying? Some updated thoughts after three weeks of living with the device. Read More   Jonny Evans: Why Apple iPads in your schools are essential learning tools Today I feel like taking on a stalking horse, so here goes: iPads in schools are not luxury items, they are essential to boosting your child's educational achievements, and if your children don't have access to these things then they will be at a disadvantage in contrast to those kids who do, and here's why. Read More   Windows Phone's solid growth in danger because of a big app gap with Android, iOS Another report confirms that Windows Phone's solid growth puts it at No. 3 worldwide, but also warns there is danger ahead. In order to maintain that growth, it says, Microsoft needs to get serious about closing the app gap between Windows Phone and Android and iOS. Read More   Samsung ships curved OLED TV in US for about $9,000 Samsung Electronics America has started shipping its first curved OLED TV, pricing it at $8,999.99 and making it available through specialty retailers in the U.S. Read More   WHITE PAPER: VCE First Real Look at the Integrated Systems Market The word is out that the market for integrated systems is a key growth area for data center hardware infrastructure. This Gartner report sizes the market and profiles early leaders in this important and emerging area in three segments. Learn More. Learn More. Intel revives OLPC rivalry with new Android tablet design Intel's 10-inch and 7-inch Android tablet designs are now available to manufacturers, and the resulting products could rekindle a long rivalry in the education market with One Laptop Per Child, whose first Android tablet became available in July. Read More   Windows 8 comes to open-source PCs with GizmoSphere board The market for x86 open-source PCs is now a two-horse race, with GizmoSphere releasing schematics and design documents for hobbyists to build from scratch a Windows 8 computer based on open design. Read More   Lawyers sue Microsoft over Surface RT 'unmitigated disaster' Several law firms joined forces to sue Microsoft, accusing the company of misleading shareholders about sales of the Surface RT tablet and calling its entry into the market an "unmitigated disaster." Read More   The Xerox character-substitution bug is worse than first thought A software bug that caused some characters to be substituted for others in scans by some Xerox machines is more serious than previously thought. Read More   Michael Horowitz: Shopping for a Chromebook If you have decided to buy a Chromebook, here are a couple pointers that may help you pick a specific model. Read More
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