Amazon Cloud Drive, Player Hit the Right Notes; Google's April Fools' Antics: Teleportation, Chromercise

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TOP STORIES - April 2, 2011 • Amazon Cloud Drive, Player Hit the Right Notes • Google's April Fools' Antics: Teleportation, Chromercise • IBM's Watson Goes to College • Adding Color to Google or Apple's Gray Social Clouds • Google Slide Unit Creates Disco Group Messaging App SPOTLIGHT iPad 2 vs. Xoom: Tablet Face-Off We hit the local Best Buy to bring you a quick-and-dirty comparison of the look, feel and performance of the two tablets. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • 10 Groundbreaking IBM Patents • 10 Women Cracking Tech's Glass Ceiling • Features That Would Polish Apple iOS 5 • Uncertainties, Risks of Solar Generation FEATURED VIDEO Making Cities Smarter Location-based analytics helps cities realize more efficient operations. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Greatest Google April Fools' Gags • Why AT&T, T-Mobile Deal Is Bad News • Samsung Shows Off SSDs, Optical Drives • Verizon Unveils HTC Thunderbolt 4G IN THIS ISSUE Amazon Cloud Drive, Player Hit the Right Notes Amazon.com recently launched a heavy salvo against Google and Apple in the digital-music wars with its cloud-based service that lets users upload and play their tunes. But Amazon's pay structure could be a turnoff to some. However, for those who want easy-to-use storage bound to a stripped-down, no-frills streaming-music player, Amazon could be offering the service for you. READ MORE >> Google's April Fools' Antics: Teleportation, Chromercise Google April 1 continued its decade-plus-long tradition of April Fools' Day gags and goofs in 2011, seemingly toning it down a bit from previous years with fewer jokes and a lot less effort put into them. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard How LinkedIn is Helping SMBs Find New Business Find out the best ways to leverage LinkedIn for small and medium sized business with LinkedIn expert, Chuck Hester. Watch the Video! ADVERTISEMENT IBM's Watson Goes to College IBM takes its Watson supercomputer to college to play the "Jeopardy!" quiz game against students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. READ MORE >> Adding Color to Google or Apple's Gray Social Clouds Color could be the type of mobile-meets-social-meets-local application Google and Apple have been searching for. Unless Facebook gets there first. READ MORE >> Google Slide Unit Creates Disco Group Messaging App Google's Slide social application unit has launched Disco, a group messaging app for Apple's iPhone. No version is yet available for Google's Android platform. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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