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TOP STORIES - June 1, 2011 • Google Wallet Service Offers Easy Mobile Payments • Why Intel's Ultrabooks Are a Bad Idea • Should Microsoft CEO Ballmer Should Step Down? • Microsoft Reportedly Prepping Windows 8 Glimpse • Android No Threat to Apple in Paid Apps SPOTLIGHT Galaxy Tab 10.1: Fine iPad Alternative Expected to launch in June to challenge the iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 could restore faith in Android tablets. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Droid X2: Best of the Old with the New • Mango Update Sweetens Windows Phone • 10 Biggest Data Breaches of 2011 So Far • Smarter eEyes Focus on Cure for Blind FEATURED VIDEO Time to Work from Home Laptops, tablets, and smart devices help blur the line between office and home. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Galaxy Tab Poses Major Threat to iPad • 9 Summer Smartphones Worth the Wait • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • How to Recognize Phishing Attacks IN THIS ISSUE Google Wallet Service Offers Easy Mobile Payments After months of rumor, Google has introduced its Google Wallet mobile-payment service. The free service includes an application that users can download to tap their phone and pay for goods from participating merchants, such as RadioShack. Google is partnering with the likes of Samsung, MasterCard, Citigroup and Sprint on the initiative. READ MORE >> Why Intel's Ultrabooks Are a Bad Idea News Analysis: Intel is trying to add a new notebook category to the personal computer market. But the company should know that its plans are a bad idea. It’s trying to create a narrow product niche that may fail to win buyer support. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Symantec Examine the factors driving interest in desktop virtualization and the seven keys to selecting the right storage architecture for enterprise VDI deployments. See how Symantec VirtualStore satisfies these seven key requirements. Click here ADVERTISEMENT Should Microsoft CEO Ballmer Should Step Down? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a polarizing figure, with some outsiders claiming he should step down for the good of the company after well-publicized missteps. READ MORE >> Microsoft Reportedly Prepping Windows 8 Glimpse Microsoft will offer a glimpse of Windows 8 on tablets, according to a report. And yet Microsoft is still pushing back against CEO Ballmer's own Windows 8 revelations. READ MORE >> Android No Threat to Apple in Paid Apps Google's Android Market only has one-third the number of paid applications as Apple's App Store. Moreover, most Android developers aren't making much money from their work, says Distimo. 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 >> Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backups to the Cloud Jun 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) To resolve this conflict some businesses have embraced legacy agent and tape-based approaches that over time become too costly to manage and can fail to meet service level requirements. For many organizations new approaches such as backup and archive to cloud storage solves the dilemma. REGISTER >> What Can Identity Management Do for You? Jun 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Register today for this online event to hear industry experts compare and contrast different architectures such as synchronization-based and event-based models. Executives will discuss the common problems most enterprises face when they address identity management, and give you valuable insight into how identity management can become the center of most, if not all, of your IT-management policies. REGISTER >>

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