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Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid

The 3.8-pound IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is an 11.6-inch laptop with a retractable multitouch screen. When the screen is locked into its upright position in the laptop’s chassis, it’s powered by a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. What makes this new model interesting is that when the screen [...]

Google Apps in Los Angeles: A Closer Look

Google Apps in Los Angeles

RedEye turns your iPhone and iPod touch into bona fide universal remote (video)

By Darren Murph posted Dec 2nd 2009 2:27PM

 
Apple’s ‘Remote‘ application was a good start, but we’ve known for some time now that the platform was capable of far, far more. ThinkFlood is stepping up today and proving our assumptions right, as the RedEye universal remote control system effectively converts your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote for [...]

Top data center challenges include social networks, rising energy costs

Data growth will hit 650% over next half-decade, Gartner says

By Jon Brodkin , Network World , 12/01/2009

Enterprise data needs will grow a staggering 650% over the next five years, and that’s just one of numerous challenges IT leaders have to start preparing for today, analysts said as the annual Gartner Data Center Conference kicked off in Las Vegas [...]

Successful virtualization: The “Central Vac” versus the “Dust Buster”

 

12 November, 2009 By Joanne Moretti, SVP Product Marketing & Analyst Relations, CA, Inc.

 
Data center virtualization is here to stay, as enterprises seek to lower IT, energy and real estate costs while also improving their ability to support changing business demands. One estimate from Forrester Research is that 31 percent of [new server] operating [...]

How Safe is Your Data?

Data thieves today are hustling to position sniffers inside retailers, financial firms and health care companies, in particular. “Anyone who keeps sensitive information on their networks is actively being targeted,”

Multitouch Mice On The Horizon

Originally posted at Engadget

Rather odd timing, given some recent
developments in the Apple camp, but Microsoft Research has just surfaced some of its incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes. Each one uses a different touch detection method, and at first glance all five seem to fly in the face of regular ergonomics. The craziest two are probably [...]

Disruptive Change Predicted for Health IT Market

By: Roy Mark
2009-09-11
While the Obama administration’s drive to dramatically increase health IT spending portends a financial bonanza for vendors, the boom will not come without risks, says Input.
The U.S. health IT market is set for disruptive change, predicts a report by Input released Sept. 10. The key drivers of the change will occur “as the [...]

Dentrix Image 5.0 Released

Dentrix Image 5.0 is officially available for installation/upgrades. This is the first version upgrade to their imaging product in several years and makes a lot of ‘under the hood’ improvments, including the ability to enable hardware acceleration.
Dentrix Image Features
100% compatible with DENTRIX
Store digital images in compressed formats TIFF, BMP, JPEG, PCD, and TGA (even internet images)
Attach images, [...]

Gmail and Google Apps Mail Web Access is Down

Currently Google reports problems with the front end of both their Gmail and Google Apps Mail webmail systems. Mail flow over POP, SMTP, and IMAP is unaffected as of now (meaning if you use outlook, thunderbird, entourage, etc., you can still send/receive mail).
Please check back for updates… or if you can’t wait, this link will [...]

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