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	The wireless revolution's forgotten victim: The phone itself When an industry is dying, it gets no investment, and that's the case with standard phones. Yet the Internet-based alternatives and mobile phones aren't quite ready for prime time, both in quality and complexity of operation. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Join AWS Cloud Event in Las Vegas! AWS re:Invent is the largest gathering of developers & technical leaders from the AWS cloud community. Take advantage of 175+ sessions, training bootcamps, hands-on labs, and hackathon to gain deeper skills and knowledge of the cloud. All of this, in Las Vegas with a developer lounge and after hour parties. Walk away with everything you need to thrive in the AWS Cloud. Learn more and register today! In this Issue Whose self-driving car will you trust: Google or the automakers? IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers New 3D printing DRM copies Netflix's moves to blockade physical pirates Canonical looking to team with Dell on Chinese version of Ubuntu OS WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds Network Management Costs Overshoot User Needs Enterprise IT network management tools are difficult to use, expensive and do not address the realities of today's real-world IT management challenges, according to the results of an IDG Research Services survey. Learn More Whose self-driving car will you trust: Google or the automakers? Driverless cars are coming, and Google wants to do more than design its software -- it wants to build the cars too. Read More IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers Following through on a policy change announced in 2012, IBM has started restricting availability of hardware patches to paying customers, spurring at least one advocacy group to accuse the company of anticompetitive practices. Read More New 3D printing DRM copies Netflix's moves to blockade physical pirates Once 3D printing becomes mainstream, manufacturing companies fear that open season will basically be declared for piracy of physical goods. Why purchase that fancy new iPhone case, after all, when you can just grab the digital CAD file for free from a website and print it at home for just the cost of some plastic filament? Read More Canonical looking to team with Dell on Chinese version of Ubuntu OS Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market. Read More
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