Windows Phone: Down but not out in fight with Android

	Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results | AMD launches Trinity APUs to take on Intel's Ivy Bridge
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	Windows Phone: Down but not out in fight with Android Android is sitting pretty atop the smartphone market, accounting for more than 56 percent of the 144.4 million smartphones sold worldwide this past quarter, according to Gartner. Yet despite Android's marketshare swelling from 36.4 percent to 56.1 percent year over year, the platform's continued dominance is by no ways guaranteed, according to Gartner: The smartphone market has become highly commoditized and differentiation is becoming a challenge for manufacturers -- particularly for smartphones based on the Android OS. Read More WEBCAST: HP How to overcome challenges with database solutions. Your business is growing. How is your IT handling increased business transactions, stringent SLAs and increasing budget pressures? Join Richard Winter, President at WinterCorp, and Ajaya Gummadi, HP NonStop WW Database Product Manager, as they discuss the challenges enterprises face with database solutions, and how to overcome them with HP. Learn more. In this Issue Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results AMD launches Trinity APUs to take on Intel's Ivy Bridge Cisco bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix gets an update Startup claims hard drive prices for its all-flash arrays WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results Google will begin in the next few days to incorporate the "knowledge graph" it has been building for two years into its search results. The new search format will deliver context-sensitive information about the people and things users search for to the right of the conventional list of links to Web pages, said Johanna Wright, Google's director of product management. Read More AMD launches Trinity APUs to take on Intel's Ivy Bridge AMD has announced its second generation "Trinity" Accelerated Processing Units. The A-Series APUs are aimed at laptops, PCs, and embedded hardware. AMD's latest processors will come in dual and quad-core variations and go toe-to-toe with Intel's third generation Ivy Bridge Core chips. Read More Cisco bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop Cisco has announced three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility. The new Smart Solutions packages are by themselves not new at all: they're formed of existing Cisco hardware and software, third-party partnerships, and consulting services from Cisco or its partners. But Cisco says they represent a shift in the company's thinking about how to deploy mobile technology for businesses. Read More Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix gets an update When Canonical launched its Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix back in February, it was based on Ubuntu Linux 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot," which was then the most current stable version of the free and open source operating system. Since then Ubuntu has received a major update to version 12.04, however, and now Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix has been refreshed accordingly with the new "Precise Pangolin." Read More Startup claims hard drive prices for its all-flash arrays Flash array startup Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, has announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration. Read More
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