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TOP STORIES - June 15, 2011 • IBM's Top Divestitures and Spinoffs • U.S. Funds Projects to Bypass Internet Censorship, Government Control • Microsoft's Losing Battle With i4i Will Alter Patent Cases • AT&T and T-Mobile Slam Critics in FCC Motion • Smart-City-in-a-Box Aids Timely Decision-Making SPOTLIGHT IBM at 100: Biggest Hits and Misses From its delivery of a fine-tuned punched card to Watson, IBM has a lot to brag about. But it's also had its fair share of duds. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Mac OS X 'Lion,' iOS 5 Converge in iCloud • Microsoft Offers Windows 8 First Look • iCloud Gives Amazon, Google Competition • Apps That Harness Dual Touch Screens FEATURED VIDEO Healthy Dose of Analytics A Texas hospital slashed patient readmissions by 22% using analytics software. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Why Google Wallet Will Fail to Cash In • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Top-Paying Technology Companies • Apple's iOS Stats Put Android's to Shame IN THIS ISSUE IBM's Top Divestitures and Spinoffs Known more recently for its acquisitions, IBM also has a reputation for spinning off commodity businesses. But IBM was built on big bets and it has continued to make calculated wagers on which technologies to keep in its fold and which ones to spin off and yet retain relationships with. READ MORE >> U.S. Funds Projects to Bypass Internet Censorship, Government Control The United States is pushing ahead with its vision of an Internet with no government censorship by funding projects to create stealth networks free of authoritarian government control. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM Work smarter to get the maximum out of your ideas at smartertechnology.com. News, information, and resources for your IT needs. Learn more ADVERTISEMENT Microsoft's Losing Battle With i4i Will Alter Patent Cases Microsoft's defeat before the U.S. Supreme Court in its long-running i4i case has the potential to affect the conduct of future patent-infringement lawsuits. READ MORE >> AT&T and T-Mobile Slam Critics in FCC Motion In a filing with the FCC, officials with AT&T and T-Mobile shot back at critics of AT&T's proposed $39 billion takeover bid, saying a combined company would not hurt consumers. The companies claim that a merger of the two would reduce dropped calls, improve service, ease the transition to 4G LTE and meet demand for data services. READ MORE >> Smart-City-in-a-Box Aids Timely Decision-Making The IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities gives cities of any size a grand view of decision-making information across city departments and agencies. Leveraging built-in analytics, managers can then better anticipate problems, respond to crises and manage resources. 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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