Meet Ophelia, Dell's $50 plug-in, cloud-based PC challenger

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	Meet Ophelia, Dell's $50 plug-in, cloud-based PC challenger Amid the glitzy tablets and glamorous smartphones and ridiculous electronic forks at this year's CES, it was easy to overlook Dell's announcement of an innocuous-looking little device resembling a slightly oversized USB thumb-drive. While not much to look at, this "ultra-compact, multimedia-capable device" dubbed "Project Ophelia" -- really a thin client in USB clothing -- could prove a game changer, both for struggling Dell and perhaps the PC market Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services New! Run Windows Server 2012 on Amazon Web Services Cloud Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on the high-performance, cost-effective AWS cloud computing platform. Start running instances in minutes with AWS pre-configured Windows Server virtual machine images. Get started now for free with the AWS Free Tier. Get Started for Free with Windows Server on the AWS Cloud! The AWS Free Usage Tier includes Amazon EC2 instances running Windows Server 2012. Use up to 750 hours of Windows Micro Instances each month for one year – free! In this Issue Microsoft to Windows 8 downgraders: The bits stop here 5 new smartphone OSes bet on HTML5 and improved UIs U.S. Attorney Ortiz defends prosecution of Aaron Swartz Facebook pushes a new model for buying servers WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Hadoop: A Platform for the Big Data Era As big data becomes big business, IT has the opportunity to add value by finding new insights in unstructured data. Read Now! Microsoft to Windows 8 downgraders: The bits stop here Earlier this week I posted detailed instructions on how to "downgrade" (I use the term advisedly) a Windows 8 Pro machine to Windows 7 Professional. Microsoft explicitly gives permission for this downgrade. The steps are lengthy, but not particularly difficult for an experienced Windows user who's accustomed to clean installs. There is, however, one sticking point: Where do you get a "genuine" copy of the Win7 Professional bits? Read More 5 new smartphone OSes bet on HTML5 and improved UIs In the next 12 months, smartphones with five new operating systems are scheduled to go on sale, leaning on Web technologies and improved user interfaces to try and make a dent in the dominance of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. In two weeks, Research In Motion will launch the first two smartphones based on its new operating system, BlackBerry 10, hoping to turn around its ailing fortunes. Launching a new operating system and succeeding will be difficult, but that hasn't dissuaded RIM nor the other vendors coming out with smartphone OSes the year: Mozilla, Canonical, Finnish upstart Jolla, and backers of Tizen. Read More U.S. Attorney Ortiz defends prosecution of Aaron Swartz U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said Wednesday that prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Internet activist Aaron Swartz that warranted severe punishment. The U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts has been criticized for her handling of the prosecution of Swartz, who committed suicide last Friday. Read More Facebook pushes a new model for buying servers Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be adopted. The social networking company is looking to "disaggregate" the data center, meaning it wants to reduce the dependencies among computer parts and make it easier for large companies to design the systems they need to suit their own particular workloads. Read More
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