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	7 mobile hard drives: More portable and more powerful   If you want to back up and carry all your data with you, these lightweight hard drives let you do it easily and with style. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware? Using VMware NIC Teaming? Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised) Get this essential FREE white paper now. 11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff. Click to continue In this Issue Surface channel distribution tempo shows Microsoft lacks Plan B after sales debacle Update: Microsoft restores Outlook.com after three-day outage How about a solar-powered, submersible laptop for $350? What wearable computing is really all about Facebook fixes timeline bug, cites language trouble in delay Dell drops $299 Windows RT tablet; cheapest deal is now $479 Facebook eyes mesh networks to connect users and businesses Researchers send data without battery, transmitter Windows malware finds its way to Android SAP creates LAVA 'design language' to heat up analytics Richi Jennings: 'Confirmed': iPhone 5S will be vulgar, gaudy, tacky, nasty, tawdry, ugly, emetic WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More. Surface channel distribution tempo shows Microsoft lacks Plan B after sales debacle Microsoft's slow expansion of commercial sales of its struggling Surface line is proof that the company had no backup plan after completely misreading the market, an analyst said today. Read More   Update: Microsoft restores Outlook.com after three-day outage Microsoft on Saturday apologized for a three-day partial outage of Outlook.com and said the email service was back up and running, only to note hours later that problems still plagued some customers. Read More   How about a solar-powered, submersible laptop for $350? A Canadian company plans to unveil a solar-powered laptop in Ghana next week and the device could find its way to North America, perhaps as a Chromebook, by the end of the year. Read More   What wearable computing is really all about Wearable computing gadgets aren't toys for lazy geeks or harbingers of a dystopian future. Here's why you're going to love wearable computing. Read More   Facebook fixes timeline bug, cites language trouble in delay A Facebook engineer blamed language difficulties and documentation issues for a delay in fixing a bug that let a security researcher post directly to founder Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline, which is restricted if two users aren't friends. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. eBook: Why Voice is Critical for your UC Deployment The ability for your team members to have all points of communication brought together in one platform is compelling. And allowing team members to collaborate from virtually anywhere should be appealing. Read Now! Dell drops $299 Windows RT tablet; cheapest deal is now $479 Shoppers who tried to buy a Windows RT tablet at Dell's website Friday morning would have seen one listed for US$299. By the end of the day the cheapest tablet came bundled with a keyboard for $479. Read More   Facebook eyes mesh networks to connect users and businesses Facebook has designed a system that would allow individuals and advertisers to make direct connections to those physically nearby that share similar interests or are open to receiving certain advertisements. Read More   Researchers send data without battery, transmitter University of Washington engineers have developed a way to communicate over short distances using devices that don't require batteries or transmit any signals. Read More   Windows malware finds its way to Android Criminals are modifying the tools and techniques that have served them well for breaking into Windows PCs, so they can one day have as much success with Android smartphones. Read More   SAP creates LAVA 'design language' to heat up analytics SAP's Business Objects BI (business intelligence) product line may soon begin receiving a visual overhaul based on a new "design language" or methodology called LAVA (Lightweight Applied Visual Analytics). Read More   Richi Jennings: 'Confirmed': iPhone 5S will be vulgar, gaudy, tacky, nasty, tawdry, ugly, emetic Anyone for Champagne? Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will release a gold-colored iPhone 5S. This rumor is said to be 'confirmed' by multiple sources. And, yes, there are pictures of case components. It's clearly totally believable; so that's all right then. But did anyone stop to wonder why Jony Ive would permit such a tawdry bauble? Read More
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