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Today's Top Picks   BlackBerry CEO Heins: Focus on enterprise mobility over device sales Thorsten Heins, CEO of BlackBerry, tried to recast the company narrative around enterprise mobility management instead of devices. READ FULL STORY | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Recommended Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms and Branch Offices This paper discusses realistic improvements you can make to power, cooling, racks, physical security, monitoring, and lighting in small server rooms and branch offices. GUIs: The computing revolution that turned us into cranky idiots Change is never easy for users to accept, even if you are introducing new technologies that are supposed to make lives easier or the computing experience simpler. READ FULL STORY | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Microsoft developer directions: One Windows core doesn't mean one store Does a common Windows core across phone, PC/tablet and entertainment console mean there also will be a single store across these platforms? Not yet, if ever. READ FULL STORY | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff: A cloud bromance for the ages The Ellison and Benioff show was a great example of how competition turns to co-opetition and then true love once there are enough enterprise dollars at stake. READ FULL STORY | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Microsoft's mobile strategy: Where Android, iOS and Windows 8.1 fit in Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 aren't doing well, but Microsoft can still make out with some help from Intel and Windows 8.1 If its great ARM experiment doesn't work out, supporting Microsoft's key applications on Android and iOS won't hurt. READ FULL STORY | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Hot Topic Spotlight   Is multi-factor authentication the solution for identity theft? How many sites and services can you login to using your Facebook or Twitter account? What if, instead, we used a secure method of login? Would our identities be more secure? Yes, they would. READ FULL STORY  | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Special Feature   M2M and the Internet of Things: A guide The Internet of Things will consist primarily of machines talking to one another, with computer-connected humans observing, analysing and acting upon the resulting 'big data' explosion. Here's how the next internet revolution is shaping up. READ FULL STORY | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Featured Photo Gallery   Hands-on with the Windows 8.1 preview It's not just a service pack. Windows 8.1 is filled with dozens of significant improvements, large and small, that improve its usability. The built-in apps also get some major upgrades and additions. Is this enough to silence the skeptics? VIEW THE GALLERY  | SHARE ON FACEBOOK More photo galleries: Top Android apps for summer Featured Review   Samsung Galaxy Note 8 review The 8-inch Galaxy Note 8 is reasonably comfortable to hold one-handed in portrait mode to make jottings with its pressure-sensitive pen, and is a delight to use. Still, you'll need to really want the added features that pen input brings to the device, because it's relatively expensive. READ FULL REVIEW  | SHARE ON FACEBOOK	Latest News   BlackBerry Q1: Recovery, turnaround not going so well   Firefox 23 beta introduces better security and sharing   Google's Blogger to delete all 'adult' blogs with ads in three days   Workday CEO: Cloud costs and future expansion plans   Microsoft's Outlook RT preview: Which features are (and aren't) supported   Report: Google developing a smart watch to challenge Apple   Microsoft makes Azure Mobile Services, Web Sites generally available   Cisco fixes Web, email, content security appliance vulnerabilities   Read more News >> Connect with ZDNet   Become a fan on Facebook   Follow us on Twitter   Watch us on YouTube Small Business Center   MasterCard taps open source tech for new SMB e-commerce tool Based on several new big data and e-commerce products that have debuted in the last six months, using open standards has become a critical requirement. READ FULL STORY  | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Featured Video   Asia firms still uncertain about BYOD support Companies in the region are unsure if, and how, they should support the use of personal devices in the office as questions dealing with data and support remain tough to resolve, note participants in ZDNet roundtable. WATCH VIDEO  | SHARE ON FACEBOOK Watch more Videos >>   Recommended Downloads Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution Check out this article to learn more about the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures. Performance Tools for C, C++, and Fortran Developers Intel's Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Cluster Studio XE 2013 can help you increase your application performance and reliability, whether you're creating an innovative app or an HPC cluster. Download a free trial today! 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