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First impressions of the Motorola Xoom: Five quick insights The Motorola Xoom is more of a PC replacement than the iPad, but it still has some frayed edges that need to be evened out before most early adopters will want to jump on board. Read more Motorola Xoom: Unboxing and comparison photos Resource of the day Estimating a Data Center's Electrical Carbon Footprint Data center carbon emissions are a growing global concern. This white paper introduces a simple approach, supported by free web-based tools, for estimating the carbon footprint of a data center anywhere in the world. More from TechRepublic   10 reasons for quitting IT There are a lot of upsides to working in IT -- but depending on your situation, you might find yourself considering other career options. Jack Wallen describes a few factors that could be the last straw for some IT pros. Read more Five tips for using PowerPoint 2010 for online training PowerPoint 2010 makes it easy to deliver training via the Web. Here's a look at how to successfully broadcast a presentation. Read more Memo to wireless carriers: 5GB caps won't replace cable companies According to TR member dcolbert, if wireless broadband ISPs can't provide their services at competitive prices to wired broadband providers, without outrageously limiting caps, they're never going to compete with, let alone replace, those companies. Read more News from ZDNet   Google overhauls algorithm, content farms potentially screwed Google has changed its algorithm to favor "high-quality sites" and cut rankings for sites that "are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites" and "are just not very useful." Read more Microsoft and HP launch a series of datacenter appliances Turnkey, scalable datacenter appliances offer building blocks for quick implementation and fast business reaction times. Read more Fujitsu Stylistic Windows 7 slate: Microsoft's latest, greatest iPad competitor? There's a new Windows 7 slate coming to town (starting in April this year) that Microsoft is hoping may give the company at least a temporary answer to Apple's iPad and the various Android slates... Read more Mac OS X Lion Preview: New features, orphans first-gen Intel machines On its developer page, Apple highlights a few new features in Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion. However, in the release notes, a few more details of interest emerge, including a Recovery HD option, which... Read more Android Market starts selling e-books; Nook for Android updated A couple of pieces of Android and digital book-related news this morning. First, Google's Android Market has become a slightly more fearsome competitor for iTunes with the addition of e-book sales. Read more All tablets sold in Q3 2010 Tablet were iPads, well almost ABI Research has published a report containing tablet sales figures for the third quarter of last year, and it was an iPad quarter. Of the 4.5 million tablets sold during that period, a whopping... Read more Facebook offers new privacy policy for regular people Facebook is testing a new simplified version of its privacy policy written for regular people. Read more Wires? We don't need no stinking Wires! Gigabit Wi-Fi Sure, Intel's Thunderbolt with 10Gbps speeds and protocols that support both data transfer and displays sounds great, but why worry with wires connections at all with Gigabit Wi-Fi on its way? Read more Microsoft notes Windows Update "inconsistencies," provides fix Any time Microsoft pushes an update to a few hundred million users, you can expect some hiccups. With Windows 7 SP1, Microsoft has quietly acknowledged an "inconsistency" that might cause more... Read more Amazon Web Services launches CloudFormation: Infrastructure recipes Amazon Web Services on Friday detailed CloudFormation, an effort to make cobbling together cloud services as easy as baking a cake. Read more Salesforce.com: The enterprise, platform roads to $3 billion in revenue Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff hasn't seen his company hit $2 billion in annual revenue yet, but already sees $3 billion in sales happening. Big enterprise agreements and a platform play are the... Read more Do enterprise architects work for IT or the business or what? Enlightened EA may be hard to find, but the times they are a-changing, says one analyst. Read more T-Mobile feels pain amid Sprint, Verizon, AT&T customer gains T-Mobile on Friday said it lost 318,000 contract customers in the fourth quarter, a dismal performance relative to rivals Sprint, Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Read more Featured multimedia   Gallery: Apple beefs up MacBooks; gives peek at Lion Apple updated its MacBook Pro line with next-gen processors, graphics and I/O technology dubbed Thunderbolt. 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