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	Steve Ballmer: There are four ways to make money in high tech Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says there are basically four ways to make money in the technology business -- consumers, telcos, enterprise IT, and enterprise marketing departments -- and Microsoft is successful at three of them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Five9 Selecting a Contact Center Infrastructure Solution Choosing a new contact center infrastructure is one of the most crucial decisions your business can make. But with so many premise- and cloud-based solutions available, the selection process can be daunting. This whitepaper by industry analyst Donna Fluss provides a roadmap that will get you to the best option for your business. Learn more. In this Issue Online holiday shopping at work may be huge suck on time, bandwidth Google in talks with Dish to build wireless network, report says Five reasons Microsoft Lync 2013 matters Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly double WHITE PAPER: FalconStor Confronting the Data Backup Challenge IDG Research Services surveyed 215 IT managers at enterprise and SMB organizations for some answers to these questions and to find out their plans as they look to their future storage needs. Read this paper to learn more about the key findings. Learn More Online holiday shopping at work may be huge suck on time, bandwidth With Black Friday just a week away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, the question is how much online buying will actually be done at work? Read More Google in talks with Dish to build wireless network, report says Google already sells phones and tablets, provides a wealth of online services and has been laying high-speed fiber to people's homes. Now it is apparently considering a wireless network service as well. Google has been in talks with satellite TV provider Dish Network over a possible partnership to build out a wireless service that would rival those from carriers such as AT&T and Sprint, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Read More Five reasons Microsoft Lync 2013 matters Lync 2013 has a variety of benefits that businesses can take advantage of to make internal and external communications more effective and efficient. Read More Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly double Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter, after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. Shipments of the tablet in the third quarter reached 2.07 million units, up from 1.15 million in the previous quarter, according to Dickie Chang, an analyst with research firm IDC. He attributed the shipment growth to Apple finally gaining ownership of the iPad trademark in China, which cleared the way for sales of the new product. Read More
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