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	Why I'm keeping my Windows XP machine Microsoft can throw its Windows XP retirement party, if it wants, but I won't count myself among the celebrants. Like millions (more likely many hundreds of millions) of people around the world, I have very good reasons for keeping Windows XP alive and kicking. Read More WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. Making Voice a Successful Part of Your UC Rollout You've thought long and hard about the investment you're making in Unified Communications. We've compiled ten steps to streamline the audio aspect of your UC deployment. Putting an audio strategy in place now can help you plan, deploy and eventually drive higher adoption rates. Download our workbook now! Read Now! In this Issue Salesforce touts new mobile tools for developers Flash breakthrough promises faster storage, terabytes of memory Dell's Project Ophelia could be more bad news for PCs Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off WHITE PAPER: FICO (Fair Isaac) Deliver Customer Value with Big Data Analytics Big Data requires that companies adopt a different method in understanding today's consumer. Read this white paper to learn why Big Data is not just another passing trend. Learn more. Salesforce touts new mobile tools for developers As the BYOD movement takes hold in the enterprise, end-users expect access to their business apps all the time regardless of what type of device they're on, where their data is stored (locally or in the cloud), and even whether they're connected to the Internet. That's a tall order, and it puts a lot of pressure on app dev teams to support those scenarios. Read More Flash breakthrough promises faster storage, terabytes of memory In the ongoing quest for faster access to data, Diablo Technologies has taken what could be a significant next step. Diablo's Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture, expected to show up in servers shipping later this year, allows flash storage components to plug into the super-fast channel now used to connect CPUs with memory. That will slash data-access delays even more than current flash caching products that use the PCI Express bus, according to Kevin Wagner, Diablo's vice president of marketing. Read More Dell's Project Ophelia could be more bad news for PCs Dell is shipping Project Ophelia devices to early beta testers. PC sales are already suffering at the hands of mobile devices, and now Dell's Android PC-on-a-stick threatens the relevance of traditional PCs from a different angle. Read More Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days. The project sits just above the $7 million mark at the time of this writing a large sum by the standards of crowd-funded projects, to be sure, but the $32 million goal is still a long way off. Read More
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