[TechRepublic] The next Wintel: Android plus NVIDIA

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The next Wintel: Android plus NVIDIA Microsoft and Intel won't be the same powerhouses in mobile that they were in PCs. The new leaders of the computing world will be Google Android and NVIDIA. Learn why. Read more Resource of the day Desktop Virtualization: Analysis & Piloting Analysts and experts are saying companies are moving fast to test drive desktop virtualization. Join this TechRepublic Webcast to learn more about the importance of a Desktop Virtualization pilot for your organization More from TechRepublic   Five items all IT consultancies must stock IT consultancies can reduce clients' downtime by having some inventory on hand. Basic desktop computers and routers are just two of the items your consultancy should stock. Read more Help your IT organization succeed by thinking big While you will rarely get blamed for small thinking, and the mentality that causes big ideas to fall victim to "that can't be done," thinking big can make a massive impact on your organization. Read more Talent management will be tricky in 2011 All indications say that hiring will increase in 2011. With this increase, however, will come some challenges for hiring managers. Read more TechRepublic FAQ: Voting One of the changes of TechRepublic's 2011 upgrade is the ability to vote on individual comments in both the Discussions and Questions forums. This video offers a quick look at TechRepublic's voting system and how you can use it benefit the TR community. Read more News from ZDNet   Intel's fixed chipsets to ship as early as next week A week after Intel announced a design flaw in a support chipset used in its second-generation Intel Core processor, widely known as Sandy Bridge, the company said today that it would resume... Read more Intel to resume shipment of flawed Sandy Bridge chipset motherboards - Watch out for potential upgrade headaches Intel is to resume shipment of flawed Sandy Bridge chipset motherboards - but only to OEMs that promise to use them responsibly. Read more Nasdaq confirms servers hacked via web-facing application The company that owns the Nasdaq stock market today confirmed that servers in the U.S. were hijacked as part of a hacking attack but made it clear the breach was "unrelated to our trading systems." Read more Verizon iPhone 4 orders start popping up in mailboxes Have you ordered an iPhone 4 tied to a Verizon Wireless contract? If so, check your mailbox - it might be there already! Read more Not all iPhone apps work on the Verizon iPhone -- fragmentation looming? Today may be remembered as the day the iOS platform began fragmenting like Android. The Verizon iPhone will not run all apps written for the original model. Read more Apple's secret iPad advantage: The supply chain How is it that Apple is able to beat every single tablet vendor on price? Their secret sauce: The supply chain. Read more Sprint unveils dual-screen, Android-based Echo smartphone As previously rumored, Sprint did indeed reveal a dual-screen smartphone running on Android 2.2 at a special event in New York City this evening. Read more Nokia's conundrum: How much pain ahead for an OS switch? Nokia is widely expected to announce some sort of new mobile operating system strategy and plans to build Android and/or Windows Phone 7 devices. The big question is how long Nokia will have to... Read more HP announces new TouchSmart all-in-ones Long before the iPad came along HP was trying to make touch work better on Windows. Today HP announced new versions of its touchscreen all-in-one PCs and an update to its TouchSmart software. Read more Firefox 4 and 7 to be released before 2011: Too much, too soon? Mozilla will attempt, according to a draft roadmap, to bring out Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 by the end of this year. Is Mozilla really aiming to bring out four major browser versions or is it just... 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[TechRepublic] Internet kill switch; Linux shakedown; Hack the $250 Nook Color into a full Android tablet

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