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	Salesforce.com buying ExactTarget for $2.5 billion Salesforce.com is set to deepen its reach into marketing software with the purchase of ExactTarget for about $2.5 billion. The deal, which was announced Tuesday, is scheduled to close by the end of July. Read More WHITE PAPER: Falconstor Software Deduplication Solution Overview With the proliferation of duplicate data, deduplication has become a major component of modern storage strategies. Read this overview to learn how FalconStor deduplication solutions bring immediate cost savings by allowing you to use less disk space to store backup data. Read More In this Issue Samsung, Intel tie up on streaming media from PCs to TVs New laptops and hybrids emerge as 'fatbooks' are kicked to the curb Google hopes to attract developers with cloud-based back-end kit Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps Report: President Obama to announce measures against patent trolls WHITE PAPER: VMware Don't Get Stuck on your Virtualization Journey You've virtualized a significant number of server workloads and have likely experienced significant cost savings and performance improvements so, what's next? Read this trend brief to identify which phase of virtualization you are in and where you should be headed to reap even more business benefits with expansion of your virtual environment. Read Now! Samsung, Intel tie up on streaming media from PCs to TVs Samsung TVs will be able to play movies streamed directly from PCs running Intel's latest processors by the end of this year. Intel and Samsung announced a tie-up on Tuesday under which the chip maker's Wireless Display technology will be integrated directly into Samsung's TVs. That will eliminate the need for a separate receiver to play PC content on TVs. Read More New laptops and hybrids emerge as 'fatbooks' are kicked to the curb The trusty old laptop is being kicked to the curb, with PC makers trying to spice up their offerings by pushing a variety of hybrids, tablets, and smaller-screen devices at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week. Asustek Computer, Acer, and Dell have all introduced tablets and markedly different laptop designs in an effort to revive their flagging fortunes. Many of the products use Intel's Atom chip or next-generation Core processor, called Haswell, which was also launched here. Read More Google hopes to attract developers with cloud-based back-end kit Google wants more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, and has launched Mobile Backend Starter to make it easier. Running servers on top of a hosted environment to power mobile apps can be a bit of a headache, according to Google. With the introduction of Mobile Backend Starter the company hopes to lower the bar for developers. Read More Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform. Read More Report: President Obama to announce measures against patent trolls U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce Tuesday measures directed against patent holding companies, often referred to as patent trolls, according to a newspaper report. Read More
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