Do you have a tablet? If so, you are part of a small, but growing population. A new survey from the Pew Research Center claims that 11 percent of adults now own a tablet of some sort, and reveals some interesting facts and trends related to tablet usage.
Nokia Lumia Smartphones Are Disappointing
When you show up late to a party, you should at least bring a bottle of wine (or a case of beer depending on the party). Nokia’s highly-anticipated launch of Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” smartphones comes fairly late in the game, and doesn’t seem to add anything to make it worth the wait.
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The Problem With Android
Android is the leading smartphone platform with a diverse array of devices available from a variety of manufacturers, and from virtually every wireless carrier. As capable as the Android OS might be, though, its diversity is also one of its greatest handicaps.
Google recently unveiled the next major release of Android: Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. The latest iteration of Android combines the features and capabilities of the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” OS for smartphones, and Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” OS for tablets into an integrated OS that serves both types of devices simultaneously.
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Pros and Cons of Google+ for Google Apps
Businesses using Google Apps can finally join the Google+ party. The Google+ social network now lets users join using Gmail addresses associated with Google Apps accounts, and Google has added some features that add value for these business users as well.
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Federal CIO Unveils Initiatives To Push XML, virtualization, Agile In IT Planning
The chief information officer of the U.S. government unveiled in Silicon Valley this week an initiative called “Future First”, in which Washington would embrace some of the newest approaches to developing information technology to run federal agencies.
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Quantum Announces Two Data Deduplication And Disaster Recovery Products For SMB
In whats turning out to be a busy month for Quantum Corp., the company is announcing two data deduplication and disaster recovery products intended for the small business market. The Quantum NDX-8 NAS appliance includes 8 terabytes of network-attached storage with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, while the RDX 8000 removable disk library also includes 8 TB of capacity, but with removable cartridges that means an organization can store them offsite for disaster recovery protection.
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Cisco Secures, Supercharges ISR G2s With Hardware-Accelerated VPNs
Customers looking for more performance and security in their branch operations should find the plug-and-play Cisco VPN Internal Service Module for the ISR G2 family very attractive, especially for the public sector, say company officials. The compact VPN blade provides up to 3X better throughput for IPsec VPN encrypted traffic, as well as support for the latest encryption standards, including stronger NSA regulated encryption algorithms such as Suite-B, which has been selected by the U.S. government.
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Facebook’s Open Compute Summit Pushes Open Hardware For The High End
At the Open Compute Summit this week in New York City, Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s Director of Hardware Design and Supply Chain, opened the proceedings by saying, “Open source is not just something that you can use to describe software, but also to describe the hardware space.” That is the goal for the Open Compute Project, which aims to spur the development of cheaper servers and more efficient data centers.
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Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development
In terms of performance and business agility, private cloud is the foreign import compared to your family sedan data center of today. And when you migrate to that cloud, if you bring along your old ways of thinking and silo application development mindset, you’ll miss out on the benefits the platform provides. You need to ensure your services and applications are developed in a way that harnesses the full potential of the architecture.
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The Challenge Of Making Business Intelligence And Analytics Work
Introducing “smart” systems and business analytics into an organization is an IT challenge. Historically, IT has supported online transaction processing for internal operations and customer-facing systems, and then used batch processing to wrap up all of the activities at the end of a processing period. But increasingly, businesses are beginning to incorporate “smart” systems that go beyond isolated enclaves of automation built into computers and networks and tap directly into the critical thinking behind mission-critical business processes.
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