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Submission + - VMware unveils Workplace Suite and NVIDIA partnership for Chromebooks (citeworld.com)

Gamoid writes: At VMworld today, VMware introduced the Workplace Suite, a platform for securely delivering applications and content across desktops and mobile devices from the cloud. The really cool part, though, is a partnership with Google and NVIDIA to deliver even graphics-intensive Windows applications on a Chromebook. I was on the scene.

Submission + - Your mobile app sucks (citeworld.com)

Gamoid writes: Building a mobile app is easy. But you need to measure and monitor performance and quickly build to improve it or users are going to ditch it and go back to Dropbox and Gmail.

Submission + - Despite bolstering its offerings, BlackBerry is still stuck in the past (citeworld.com)

mattydread23 writes: The BlackBerry Security Summit gave the company a chance to announce its acquisition of Secusmart and affirm its commitment to delivering and expanding highly secure devices and services. While there were high points, it also demonstrated that BlackBerry is still out of touch in some key areas.

Submission + - The cloud price wars will hurt everybody (reddit.com) 1

Gamoid writes: I had some thoughts on how Amazon Web Services' willingness to cut into its own profit margins to squeeze out the competition is a Walmart-like move that's going to hurt the entire industry.

Submission + - It's now possible to print computer memory on paper (citeworld.com)

Caleb Garling writes: Paper is cheap, flexible, and widespread, making it a good candidate as a substrate, but one of the issues with printing conductive materials to paper is one of the reasons paper works so well for ink: absorption. Being porous and uneven is an unwanted quality when trying to lay down the very precise structures necessary for electronics.

To get around this, principal researcher Der-Hsien Lien and team first coated the paper in a layer of carbon. Their aim was to make a type of resistive random access memory (RRAM), where a voltage is applied across a layer of insulator via an electrode. Each "bit" on the paper would be an insulator sandwiched by two electrodes with a state of 1 or 0.

Submission + - How the Coachella school district handled rolling out 20,000 iPads (citeworld.com)

Gamoid writes: This past school year, the Coachella Valley Unified School District gave out 20,000 iPads to every single student. The good news is that kids love them, and only 6 of them got stolen or went missing. The bad news is, these iPads are sucking so much bandwidth that it's keeping neighboring school districts from getting online. Here's why the CVUSD is considering becoming its own ISP.

Submission + - There's no such thing as a free lunch in tech (citeworld.com)

Gamoid writes: With all the talk about unlimited cloud storage and free cloud resources, it's a good time to go over the concept of a "loss leader" and remember that nothing in the tech market ever really comes free.

Submission + - The Microsoft layoffs are about culture not money (citeworld.com)

Copy that 2 writes: Mary Branscombe talks to a source about how the culture at Microsoft will change. The people who will be building Microsoft products will have a different attitude with a broader range of skills and better tools, and they'll be working inside a company that's organized differently, that collaborates and shares more internally and that spends its money on things that matter to developers.

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