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At CES 2012, the ultrabook is the new tablet. Of course, there are plenty of new tablets being offered up as well, but 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the ultrabook.
So, are ultrabooks the second coming of the laptop, or just a desperate, futile attempt to fend off the tablet revolution and maintain some relevance in the mobile market for more traditional PCs? Or, are ultrabooks simply a “me too” clone of the MacBook Air because it seems to work for Apple?
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Communication is the lifeblood of productivity. Businesses need to communicate with customers, managers need to communicate with employees, and workers need to communicate with peers. Effective communication is a crucial element of getting things done.
Technology provides us with a plethora of options for communicating. You can send an email, use an instant messaging service, or text someone on a mobile phone. There are benefits and drawbacks to each, and you will communicate more effectively if you understand what they are and select the best method for your situation.
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One of the best features of the Apple iOS platform is AirPlay. AirPlay makes it simple to wirelessly stream audio and video content from an iPhone or iPad to an AirPlay-compatible device.
As great as AirPlay is in its current form, it would be even more awesome if it was available for a wider array of platforms and situations. Here is a list of four places I’d like to see integrated AirPlay functionality
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Businesses need to begin moving now to the IPv6 standard for Internet addresses from the IPv4 standard because IPv4 addresses are running out quickly, states The Internet Society (ISOC). It says while businesses that operate Web sites are more aware about the coming IPv6 standard than they were a year or so ago, they need to start planning for the transition in 2012. To accelerate the transition, the group is introducing a Web portal, called Deploy 360, to better inform companies of what they have to do to prepare.
Network Computing
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After significant growth in the solid state storage (SSD) market in 2011 that brought the total value of shipments to $ 5 billion, research firm IDC is expecting continued big growth through to 2015. Within the enterprise market, there is increasing use of SSDs, a trend the research company expects to continue as prices fall and performance increases.
Network Computing
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Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD) is reportedly in negotiations with a private equity firm for a potential acquisition, Reuters said this week. According to reports in the financial press, the storage and networking infrastructure vendor has been working with Qatalyst Partners, the boutique investment bank run by Frank P. Quattrone, to shop itself around for two years, including several failed acquisition attempts with companies such as Hewlett-Packard. However, an analyst who follows the company believes that such an acquisition, if it occurs, would have much less effect on users than would an acquisition by Oracle, which is another rumor going around.
Network Computing
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Trends in the IT industry sometimes resemble gold rushes as vendors pan for revenue “nuggets.” The use of solid state devices (SSD), most notably flash memory, is the central point of one of these but just like the real 19th century gold rushes in California and Alaska, not all prospectors (i.e., vendors) will be successful. Where the claims are staked can make all the difference in the world, and GridIron Systems is staking one with a focus on accelerating big data analyses.
Network Computing
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Microsoft’s final curtain at CES 2012 has come with some well-deserved attention for Windows Phone devices. Truth be told, though, Microsoft makes way more money from Android devices than Windows Phone, and the payday is about to get bigger thanks to a new licensing agreement with LG.
Tech patent and intellectual property analyst Florian Mueller notes in a blog post that Microsoft and LG have entered into a licensing agreement that covers LG’s Android and Chrome OS devices. The agreement is actually an extension of an existing agreement between the two that covers LG’s Linux-based embedded devices.
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When evaluating which company to buy their networking equipment from, business IT buyers say their top priorities are product reliability and performance, ahead of acquisition or operating costs and well ahead of product innovation, according to a survey of IT professionals released this week.
Network Computing
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Portable hard drives are great tools for expanding storage capacity of laptops and mobile devices, or sharing data with others, but you sacrifice speed for portability. Other World Computing (OWC) has a new series of super fast eSATA 6G drives that change all that.
According to an OWC press release, the Mercury Elite Pro mini is the industry’s first eSATA 6G and bus-powered USB 3.0 portable storage device. The eSATA 6G drives are capable of transferring data at rates comparable to internal hard drives, so you can work with the data on the portable storage device without sacrificing performance.
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