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11 hottest Windows & Android tablets unveiled at CES; Wi-Fi or cellular for indoors?

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Indoors: Wi-Fi or cellular?
You're probably still pawing through the many 4G, tablet, smartphone and other wireless news announcements pouring out of the Consumer Electronics Show. In light of all the latest gadgetry and mobile network speed one-upmanship, what's your indoor mobile strategy looking like? Read More


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Network Virtualization Planning Guide
While hypervisors can offer basic layer of switching functionality, they do nothing to provide the additional layer of security and traffic management that is required to properly manage and protect a virtual infrastructure. Read now!

The 11 hottest Windows and Android tablets unveiled at CES
Nine of these tablets run Android or Windows, and one runs both Read More

Sprint plans WiMax RIM PlayBook
Sprint Nextel will sell a WiMax version of the Research In Motion PlayBook tablet beginning this summer, the companies announced on Thursday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More

Microsoft bashes Apple at CES while previewing next-gen Windows
Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky took a shot at Apple during CES, saying users are being inconvenienced because there is no convergence across the iPhone, iPad, iPod and MacBook. Read More

Greenpeace lauds Asus, Acer, HP, Samsung for greenest consumer electronics
At CES, environmental watchdog group Greenpeace named the greenest consumer electronics products. Asus, Acer, HP and Samsung earned some of the highest marks, while Wipro and Dell earned some of the lowest. Read More

Windows Phone 7 at CES: Hellooooo? Anyone there?
A rehash, vagueries, and a commitment to setting low expecationsThe Big News for Windows Phone 7 coming out of this week's Consumer Electronics Show was captured in a single, brief blogpost at MobilityDigest: the first software update for the mobile UI will be ready in 30-60 days. For the calendarically-challenged that would be early February. Or perhaps early March. Somewhere in there. That's not much, but it was enough to trigger a spasm of vitriol in comments... Read More


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XNV Brings Virtual Lifecycle Management to the Network
Extreme Networks ® delivers a network-based, dynamic data center virtualization lifecycle management solution that delivers unprecedented visibility, control and automation of Virtual Machines (VM) to the network administrator. Read now!

Qualcomm's Atheros buy is way more than Wi-Fi
Qualcomm's $3.1 billion buy-out of chipmaker Atheros is a move from pure-play cell phone business to "communiputing" in a highly connected world. Read More

iPad competitors face rocky market, says Forrester
While the iPad was a runaway hit for consumers in 2010, Forrester analyst Ted Schadler says its competitors should temper expectations if they expect rapid adoption in the enterprise market. Read More

Analyst 'baffled' by Microsoft talk of Windows 8 on ARM
Microsoft's announcement at CES that its next version of Windows will run on the ARM chip architecture was the wrong message at the wrong place, said an industry analyst. Read More

Sprint launches third WiMax phone, HTC Evo Shift 4G
Sprint announced its third 4G WiMax smartphone on Thursday at CES 2011, the HTC Evo Shift 4G, which will sell for $149.99, the lowest price for a 4G device. Read More

Motorola Mobilty hits ground running with Android 3.0 tablet, 4G smartphones
Motorola Mobility announced at CES three new smartphones and the Xoom tablet running the new Android 3.0 OS, formerly codenamed Honeycomb -- just one day after its official spin off as a separate company. Read More


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Maximize SAN Infrastructure Performance
Although SAN has advantages in performance, reliability, availability and provisioning, it is affected by fragmentation and performance will decline unless it is addressed. Find out why this is true and how to best avoid SAN slowdowns. Read more

AT&T slashing iPhone 3GS price in half to $49 on Friday
Not that AT&T is looking over its back at Verizon or that Apple is doing likewise with Google Android, but AT&T Thursday said it is roughly halving the price of Apple iPhone 3GS smartphones to $49 from $99 come Friday. Read More

Cisco's Cius tablet coming to Verizon LTE
Verizon Wireless will introduce Cisco's Cius tablet for its fast LTE mobile broadband network in the spring of 2011, and the companies will also offer LTE interfaces for Cisco's second-generation Integrated Services Router for small and medium-size businesses. Read More

Tablets, chips share early limelight at CES
Tablets are taking center stage at CES, at least so far, but big announcements from Microsoft and buzz around chips are also in the limelight. Read More

Verizon shipping 10 LTE devices by mid-year
Several manufacturers announced plans to offer smartphones, tablets and laptops that support Verizon's LTE network by mid-2011. Read More

Netgear launches routers, home networking products at CES 2011
Netgear goodies for 2011 include HD over Wi-Fi, filling in Wi-Fi deadspots, Power Line adapters, shared 4G connections and Gigabit routers Read More

Skype unveils iPhone video calling over 3G and Wi-Fi
As expected, Skype is ringing in 2011 with the addition of video calling to its Skype for iPhone app. Read More



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