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	Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Axeda Corporation Axeda Platform Technical Overview This paper discusses the core components of an IoT platform and architecture. It summarizes the major features and explains how they simplify and speed the process of developing and deploying IoT/M2M solutions while minimizing infrastructure and development costs. Learn More In this Issue Top 12 tech hoaxes of all time Crowdsourcing with OpenStreetMap to drive new version of Scout app Review: Dell WYSE delivers Android-on-a-stick Why are Xiaomi phones so cheap? SanDisk and Toshiba team up to create 3D SSDs JR Raphael: The 2 things that hold the Chromebook 2 back from midrange glory Hands-on: OS X 10.9.3 delivers Improved 4K display support Richi Jennings: The next patent fight 'twixt Apple and Samsung: Graphene WHITE PAPER: Polycom The New Business Case for Video Conferencing This white paper provides insight into the value of video conferencing in today's business environment, and real-world examples of how organizations--large and small--are leveraging visual collaboration to find new clients, serve existing clients better, and improve their bottom line. Learn more >> Top 12 tech hoaxes of all time Social media pranks and viral videos have nothing on these truly historical technical hoaxes Read More Crowdsourcing with OpenStreetMap to drive new version of Scout app Scout for iPhone, a free turn-by-turn navigation app, will be automatically updated this week with map data that can be altered and improved by the app's users through the OpenStreetMap community. Read More Review: Dell WYSE delivers Android-on-a-stick Thin clients aren't very exciting, and for a reason: they're designed to allow remote access to servers, usually with a Citrix, Microsoft, or VMware client. The folks at Dell WYSE have spiced up the category by building a thin client on top of Android, and getting it down to a form factor only slightly larger than a USB memory stick. Read More Why are Xiaomi phones so cheap? Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi has made a name for itself by selling iPhone-like gear for almost a third of the price of Apple products. It may sound too good to be true, but the company is managing to sell millions of phones and is already kicking off a global expansion. So how does it pull it off? Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM IDC Brief: Cloud Computing in the Midmarket Read this analyst brief from IDC to learn about public, private and hybrid cloud models and how your organization can take advantage of them. The paper also looks at how you can integrate cloud solutions into existing IT and offers some principles for measuring the success of your cloud solutions. Learn More SanDisk and Toshiba team up to create 3D SSDs Toshiba plans to demolish its No. 2 flash memory plant in Japan and replace it with a new facility where it and SanDisk will produce 3D NAND. Read More JR Raphael: The 2 things that hold the Chromebook 2 back from midrange glory Samsung's Chromebook 2 comes so close to being the first midrange Chromebook. Add in these two elements, and we'd have the laptop we've been waiting to see. Read More Hands-on: OS X 10.9.3 delivers Improved 4K display support The new 10.9.3 update to Mavericks offers improved support for 4K displays. Before the update, Retina MacBook Pros and the new Mac Pro were able to drive 4K displays, but using any resolutions below the monitor's native resolution would result in soft, slightly blurry-looking screen elements and jaggy text. The new resolution options and system optimizations in 10.9.3 make scaled resolutions look much, much better. Read More Richi Jennings: The next patent fight 'twixt Apple and Samsung: Graphene Invisible wonder-material is next IP battleground. Apple and Samsung may be squaring up for another patent fight. Or so the news agenda would have you believe. Our two favorite protagonists are amassing patents about graphene in sheet form. Ain't the future brilliant? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers rub their crystal balls. Read More
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