New generation of rugged gadgets hits
When the going gets tough, the tough get rugged PCs, phones and other gadgets. Just a few years ago, there was hardly anything worth buying in this category. But now, there's a world of devices that can survive water, shock, dirt and extreme temperatures.
PC Users Speak, and Lenovo Listens
Where do your fingers fly? Where do your cracker crumbs fall? Can the Dubai office (or Grandma) hear you over your typing? Lenovo knows the pulse of the PC user, and put that knowledge to work designing the latest T Series offering.
Present at the birth: How Lenovo created the “Super-T”
Marketers know what they’d like to sell. Engineers know what they’d like to build. Sometimes it all comes together – and you get a breakthrough product like the new ThinkPad T400s. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the new powerhouse.
A Shot Across the Bow of Dell and HP
The newest, lightest, thinnest T Series ThinkPad is designed to perform – and designed to send everyone else back to the drawing board. Listen in as Lenovo’s Worldwide Competitive Analyst rates their chances.
Lower the Cost and Complexity of a Mobile Workforce through Automation
To help you manage a mobile workforce and reduce cost and complexity through automation, Dell invites you to a session with Matt Healy, IDC’s Research Manager. He will explore new and generally unaddressed challenges to IT, shortcomings of traditional methods of managing a distributed environment and factors to consider when purchasing automation.
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If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
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SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
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Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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