• Phoenix Suns deploy Galaxy Tab 10.1 for use on and off the court

  The Phoenix Suns have deployed more than 100 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets over Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network for use by the team's business personnel, players and managers in the current basketball season.

• U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems

  In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing center that will one day house exascale systems.

• India builds a mega data center

  IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world.

• AMD execs tout firm's tablet plans

  With new CEO Rory Read at the helm for about six months, Advanced Micro Devices has turned its attention to the lucrative and burgeoning tablet market.

• RIM says 'Be Bold' cartoon is not a new BlackBerry ad campaign

  Research in Motion said its Be Bold cartoon superheroes unveiled in a recent blog infographic were always "intended to be a bit of fun" and are not a new ad campaign.

• In crowded tablet market, brand identity will matter

  When it comes to the bevy of new tablet computers coming to market, a tablet maker's brand will take on more significance than ever.

• A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

  Kristine Harper and her father, Tom, both work on mainframe computers. BOSTON - Kristine Harper was about 12-years-old when her father took her to his office to take part of a "take your daughter to work day." Tom Harper said his daughter was less than enthusiastic about his profession that day.

Whitepapers about hardware

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  Case Study: BNP Paribas Deploys Oracle Exadata to Accelerate Information Processing - The Hardware Perspective

  Datacenters are an aggregate of very heterogeneous elements interacting with each other and incurring a complex chain of dependencies, particularly around the point of contact between hardware and software. Against this backdrop, IDC is observing a great push from suppliers and end users alike toward a consumption model based on pre-integrated blocks of optimized hardware and software that IT departments need only to fine-tune, as opposed to build out of a collection of different components. Read on.

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  A Whitepaper on Cloud Computing

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  NEWS AND VIEWS ON REAL-TIME UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

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  SHOULD UNIFIED MESSAGING STILL BE A KEY PART OF YOUR UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY?