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	Spam doesn't lie: American consumers desert PCs for most mundane chore Traditional PCs were used at historically low rates last quarter to open emails, another sign that a long-time task of those notebooks and desktops has been hijacked by mobile devices, an email-centric firm said today. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Premier 100 IT Leadership Conference How are the top IT 100 leaders transforming their companies? Learn how the most innovative IT leaders are retooling their organizations for today's business models. Go beyond theories, gaining practical strategies you can use to reinvent yourself and your enterprise for what's ahead. Get hands-on, developing actionable innovation and leadership plans in "Transformation Studio" sessions led by top CIOs. Join us for this premier, two-day event at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona. Register now for just $595 and SAVE $600. In this Issue Toshiba has bought OCZ Storage 14 steps to a better, faster Windows laptop ASUS Transformer T100 Read this before you buy another hard drive Lenovo agrees to buy IBM server business for $2.3 billion Ford enlists MIT, Stanford to drive automated cars IBM updates all-flash storage array to complement X6 servers AMD slows new Opteron 6300 chips to match workloads JR Raphael: Android Power's 3 favorite things for January 2014 MIT develops heads-up display technology for windows, eyeglasses Intel expects to reduce workforce by 5% this year INSIDER Salt keeps server automation simple WEBCAST: HP and Intel®   A Secure Cloud for Development and Testing Environments This video shows the benefits of hosting your development and testing environments in the Enterprise Cloud Services - Virtual Private Cloud. Learn More Toshiba has bought OCZ Storage Toshiba has completed its acquisition of OCZ Storage Solutions, a failed Silicon Valley maker of solid-state drives, the company said Tuesday. Read More   14 steps to a better, faster Windows laptop After a couple of years, most laptops fall seriously behind the times. Here are several ways to upgrade your legacy laptop to meet today's standards. Read More   ASUS Transformer T100 If the price of the Surface Pro and other similarly equipped tablets has been preventing you from buying a Windows 8 tablet then the recent update to the Intel Atom processor may be your cue to make your move. Read More   Read this before you buy another hard drive It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even more valuable. Read More   Lenovo agrees to buy IBM server business for $2.3 billion Lenovo Group has agreed to buy IBM's x86 server hardware business and related maintenance services for $2.3 billion, it announced Thursday. Read More   Ford enlists MIT, Stanford to drive automated cars Ford is enlisting top U.S. universities to make self-driving cars a reality, announcing that it hopes researchers at MIT can come up with advanced algorithms to help vehicles learn where pedestrians and other automobiles will be located. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Onboarding 2013 - A New Look at New Hires This study of 230 organizations, conducted in January and February 2013, will explore the best practices organizations use to transform basic new hire orientations into strategic initiatives and how they leverage world-class technology to boost productivity, engagement, and retention. Learn More IBM updates all-flash storage array to complement X6 servers As IBM accelerates its sixth-generation X Series servers with memory-channel flash storage, it's also offering to boost data-center performance with a new all-flash SAN array. Read More   AMD slows new Opteron 6300 chips to match workloads Vendors don't normally brag about slower products but Advanced Micro Devices is making an exception for its latest Opteron 6300 processors, which have a slower clock speed than their predecessors to reduce power consumption. Read More   JR Raphael: Android Power's 3 favorite things for January 2014 Whether big or small, lots of great things get lost in the shuffle of our day-to-day Android discussion. Time to start shining the light on a few Android Power favorites. Read More   MIT develops heads-up display technology for windows, eyeglasses MIT scientists said they used nanotechnology to develop a thin plastic coating that can be applied to glass and used to display navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield of a car or plane, or to project video onto a window or a pair of eyeglasses. Read More   Intel expects to reduce workforce by 5% this year Intel expects that its workforce will decline by 5% as it heads into a year in which revenue is likely to be flat. Read More     INSIDER Salt keeps server automation simple Salt brings simplicity, flexibility, and high scalability to Linux and Unix server infrastructure management -- it does Windows too Read More
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