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	Google says, 'Talk to me!' with voice-powered search Google is adding the voice recognition tools that have been found in Google Now to Google Search. If information you're looking for is in your Gmail, Google Calendar or Google+ account, you'll be able to ask Google Search to find it for you. Read More WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. Making Voice a Successful Part of Your UC Rollout You've thought long and hard about the investment you're making in Unified Communications. We've compiled ten steps to streamline the audio aspect of your UC deployment. Putting an audio strategy in place now can help you plan, deploy and eventually drive higher adoption rates. Download our workbook now! Read Now! In this Issue Facebook's Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map YouTube founders take on Vine, Instagram with leap back into video Twitter tracks users' tweets to measure advertisers' offline sales Salesforce.com adds premium 'Performance Edition' bundle So what's wrong with being tracked by advertisers? Google Maps gets more ads Facebook goes after Twitter with its own Trending Topics 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 Facebook's Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map Move over Hadoop, there is another highly scalable data processing powerhouse in town: Apache Giraph. Facebook is using the technology to bring a new style of search to its billion users. Read More YouTube founders take on Vine, Instagram with leap back into video YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen launched the Mixbit.com website and app that together enable users to shoot, edit and stitch together videos that can be uploaded to the site and remixed. Read More Twitter tracks users' tweets to measure advertisers' offline sales Twitter has announced a new program to analyze some users' activity on the site to give marketers better information about how companies' tweets impact sales in physical stores. Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware Your IT Journey - Your Way Faced with unrelenting pressure to do more with less, IT leaders are implementing virtualization, mobility and cloud computing in their enterprises. In this Knowledge Vault Exchange you'll find a plethora of valuable information, including videos, on-demand Webcasts, white papers and Twitter chats. View Now! Salesforce.com adds premium 'Performance Edition' bundle Salesforce.com has rolled out a new product bundle that includes even more applications than its high-end Unlimited Edition, albeit at a higher price. Read More So what's wrong with being tracked by advertisers? Companies are getting more aggressive about using your phone to track you and then send you location-based mobile ads. So what? Read More Google Maps gets more ads Users of the Google Maps app will soon start seeing more ways to interact with paid content within the app, the company recently announced. Read More Facebook goes after Twitter with its own Trending Topics Taking a page from Twitter, Facebook is testing Trending Topics, which tracks what topics users are talking about most on the social network. Read More
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