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Has the economy suddenly picked up? This week we got our hands on the fantastic 60-inch, 3D-capable and Smart TV-enabled UE60D8000 from Samsung, which doesn't come cheap at £4,300, and then the £1,000+ Asus MARS II Limited Edition graphics card landed on our desk.</div>
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At the other end of the spectrum we were impressed with the Samsung PL120, which can be picked up for under £100 and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro, which is both small in price and size.</div>
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Samsung UE60D8000 review</div>
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When Samsung gave us exclusive access to its brand new flagship LCD TV, we were excited. It's hard not to be excited by these new Samsungs - just look at them. There's almost no bezel at all, which means the picture goes right to the very edge of the TV. The gorgeous looks are backed up by an equally gorgeous watching experience.</div>
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Both 2D and 3D pictures are handled excellently and once you've experienced its mind-blowing big screen images, mesmerising design and class-leading smart functionality you'll be hunting around for £4,300 so you can own one. And if you can't raise that much cash, you can always check out the 55-inch or 46-inch versions.</div>
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Asus MARS II Limited Edition review</div>
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Combining two Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 chips on one card, the Asus MARS II is by some distance the fastest and most powerful graphics card in existence. It weighs the same as six elephants, is bigger than a double decker bus and is probably worth more than your car. In certain benchmarks, the MARS II is 20 per cent quicker than any other card, although at times two GTX 580s in SLI come close.</div>
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It's not just the performance that impresses us, it's the temperature management and build quality. With a three-figure price tag it was never going to be a consumer's champion, but there's a lot on offer here for overclockers and modders beyond simply raw performance.</div>
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BlackBerry Torch 9860 review</div>
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When is a BlackBerry not a BlackBerry? How about when the BlackBerry in question has no physical keyboard and is in fact RIM's first proper touchscreen smartphone? Yep, the BlackBerry Torch 9860 marks RIM's first foray into pure touchscreen control, without any of the SurePress shenanigans of the Storm 2 or the slide-out keyboard of the Torch 9800 and 9810.</div>
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With the improvements of BlackBerry OS 7 and better specs across the board, the result is largely a success. It's a slick package from afar, but using the BlackBerry Torch 9860 after the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Sensation or iPhone 4 feels like going back to 2009.</div>
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro review</div>
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So, just as Sony Ericsson accompanied its X10 Mini with the X10 Mini Pro in 2010, this year's excellent new Xperia Mini is now accompanied by a heavier, sturdier model of the same size, the Xperia Mini Pro. The new smartphone also has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for those of you still stubbornly refusing to go 100% touchscreen</div>
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Samsung PL120 review</div>
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For £100, this is a camera that you'll get a lot of use out of, from holidays to updating your profile picture on Facebook. The tiny size means that it'll simply fit into a pocket when it's not being used and the price means if it does get broken, it doesn't cost the earth to replace.</div>
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Samsung ST95 review</div>
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Smart Witness Smart-i review</div>
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Cooler Master Hyper 612S review</div>
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Cooler Master Hyper 612S review</div>
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Dino PC MediaJoy 3850 review</div>
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Philips DS9010 review</div>
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Zoostorm 3390-2012/A review</div>
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Patriot Gamer 2 AMD Black Edition review</div>
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Patriot Gamer 2 AMD Black Edition review</div>
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Microsoft Touch Mouse review</div>
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Three MiFi Huawei Wireless Modem E586 review</div>
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iiyama ProLite X2472HD review</div>
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LG D2342P Cinema 3D Monitor review</div>
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Zotac Z68-ITX Wi-Fi review</div>
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Zotac Z68-ITX Wi-Fi review</div>
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Asus MARS II Limited Edition review</div>
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Promise Pegasus RAID R6 review</div>
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Q2 Internet Radio review</div>
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Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD review</div>
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ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro review</div>
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iLuv iCK826 review</div>
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<P align=center><img alt="" border="1" hspace="4" src="http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8347/thecore03312011.jpg" vspace="4"></P>This particular "journey" may not involve any humans descending into the Earth, but that doesn't mean it isn't still plenty ambitious -- a pair of scientists are now proposing to drill to the Earth's mantle and bring back some samples, effectively picking up where the first attempt to do so left off some fifty years ago. Of course, the key word here is "proposing," but the scientists, Damon Teagle and Benoît Ildefonse, say that we now have the technology and knowledge necessary to do so, and that drilling could begin by 2020 if everything goes as planned. They're looking to get things underway well before that, however, and are already planning an expedition in the Pacific as soon as next month where they say they will "bore further into the oceanic crust than ever before."Scientists propose a 'journey to the mantle of the Earth' <br /><P><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/01/scientists-propose-a-journey-to-the-mantle-of-the-earth/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</A></P>

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You might be aware that a few days ago some students from the University of California teamed up with Google Engineers to send a Nexus S into space. What you might not know is there’s super cute video to go with – and what went into space with the handset? At least one cute little vinyl plastic Android toy – Hooray! Check out the full video of this fun team jamming payloads 100,000 ft above the earth, handsets running Google Maps for Mobile 5.0, Google Sky Map, Latitude, and the teams own custom sensor logging app.<br />
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Google Engineers worked with UCSC student Greg Klein of a crew of students to prep each foam cooler encased payload. On each rig is a nylon load line attached to the cooler and to a radar reflector, a parachute, and a weather balloon. Each rig also has an APRS transmitter attached to a GPS and batteries for power. After that, each rig was different. Some had digital cameras for taking pics and some had video cameras mounted at different angles (up, down, and at the horizon.)<br />
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<i><b>Google Maps for Mobile 5.0</b></i> with offline data to see what was directly below the balloon.<br />
<i><b>Google Sky Map</b></i> to see if they could identify the real stars in the backdrop.<br />
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What did they find? LOTS! Each of the boxes collected a pack of data, several of them reached pretty freaking high altitudes. The highest altitude one of these packages reached was 107,375 ft., over 20 miles high, “or over three times the height of an average commercial jet.” The fastest one of these packs went was 139 mph. Additional data is thus (straight from the Google mouth):<br />
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After analyzing the data they collected, the group found the speed and altitude of the jet stream: approximately 130mph and 35,000 ft! After each of the packages reached their top height, they of course came crashing down – but every single package was recovered (including one they sent up last week as a test.) Good job!<br />
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<br />		<p>Many business executives are probably wondering why their IT staff has such a sudden interest in the weather. On a sunny afternoon, they're equally perplexed by all the references to clouds. In this perspective, we'll help you decipher what they're talking about, why you should care, and how you should proceed.</p><p>What is the Cloud?</p><p>First the "Cloud" is not a thing; it's a method of delivering IT computing services. There is no new device called the "Cloud". But, a cloud delivered solution does have a physical presence; it sits on hardware and runs software just like the servers sitting in your data center today. The difference is how it's done as much as where it's done.</p><p>Cloud computing relies on the virtualization of servers (taking a physical server and subdividing it into a number of virtual servers which each operate independently on the same physical device), storage virtualization through SAN's (storage area networks), and networking (internet, VPN, LAN, WAN). These technologies are combined and engineered to then provide a solution that provides the experience of independent, physical infrastructure.</p><p>Second, while there are a variety of experts and providers talking about Cloud Computing, you're not going to find a single definition. One man's cloud is another's hosted server farm. We're not going to claim our definitions are the final answer, but they are consistent with what you will find in the marketplace today and where it is likely to be moving toward.</p><p>In our view, Cloud computing comes in a few flavors; Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Multi-tenant Clouds.</p><p>Public Clouds have been with us for a while. If you use Gmail, Google Applications, Hotmail, or host your website with Microsoft (as UPi does), you're using Cloud computing. The hardware and applications are residing someplace else and you're sharing those resources with a lot of other people. You connect (typically over the internet) and make use of these services at dramatically lower cost than you could ever hope to duplicate them yourself. Think if we all had to run our own Exchange servers for email or keep technicians on staff to support a small business website, not practical.</p><p>Private Clouds are the other end of the spectrum. A business has a group of servers and business applications that its various departments, operating units and sites all connect to. These connections can be over the internet, VPN, local area networks, or wide area networks, it doesn't matter. The computing resources are centralized and everybody in that business is using them. It also doesn't matter where these servers are, they can be in a company's data center, at a co-location data center owned by somebody else, or even running on hardware provided by a 3rd party in that company's data center. What makes the Cloud the Cloud in this case, versus just a central data center, is the nuances of how the servers, storage and networks are configured and interconnected to achieve the benefits of Cloud computing.</p><p>Multi-tenant Clouds are the hybrid answer and where we will truly start so see something radically different from how we've traditionally thought of IT. In this Multi-tenant environment, you're sharing resources, but think of it more as a car pool than a public bus. The Multi-tenant Cloud provider subdivides the Cloud resources amongst its customers. This subdivision method varies by provider and is a key consideration when a business goes looking for these services. All the customers on the Cloud are sharing the big pool of resources but with "fences" and "swim lanes" and other methods of security and control, customer data and processing is separated and protected.</p><p>Lastly, you may also hear talk of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Cloud computing is one type of IaaS. A hosted server model in which the provider owns the equipment, hosts it at their data center, and provides the services to manage the infrastructure would also fall under the IaaS umbrella. The pricing model, availability, and flexibility would be different than a Cloud, but its still infrastructure provided as a service vs. physically delivered and owned or leased by you.</p><p>Why do I care?</p><p>Now that we've confused you and you're reaching for the aspirin bottle, let's take a second to say why a business should care about this. The answer is three fold: Availability, Flexibility and Cost.</p><p>A properly engineered Cloud solution is highly available. Individual servers share the load with other servers and if one fails the other one picks up the slack. In theory, you would never experience any down time due to server failure so long as the Cloud itself still exists (remember the Cloud does reside on physical devices and can be destroyed or incapacitated just like any physical thing). Similarly, data storage is configured using RAID (not the bug spray) technologies that allow for redundancy of the data so that a single hardware failure on the storage device won't bring your business to a halt. This is really cool, but really complicated stuff that requires very experienced technical engineers to design, configure, build and maintain. In other words, don't try this at home unless you have a very talented staff.</p><p>Now, we just said the Cloud is highly available unless something happens to the Cloud. This is not meant to be an oxymoron. The Cloud lives on servers and sits in a data center some place. That data center could become unusable; fire, weather destruction, extended power loss, loss of connectivity. If that occurs, your highly available Cloud isn't so available. In this case, you either need a traditional disaster recovery solution, or a provider who offers a more robust solution such as data replication to a second Cloud in a second (distant) data center. With a replicated solution, you could quickly (think an hour or less not days) bring your systems back up on the second Cloud with limited data loss from the point the first Cloud went puff.</p><p>Along with Availability, Cloud computing can provide a high degree of Flexibility. Since the Cloud is a pool of resources, a business could spin up new servers in minutes not days. No need to go acquire a new piece of server hardware, wait for delivery, install it in a rack, connect it to your network, and load your system. In a Cloud environment, you should be able to just create the new server environment on the already existing physical infrastructure in a matter of minutes. Similarly, if you only need the environment for a short period of time, say a test environment for some project, when you're done you can just turn it off and go back to using what you need without having an expensive asset sitting there unused. For businesses with wide swings in processing demands due to seasonality, new product launch or other business drivers, this flexibility can be very effective. Turn on the new servers for the peak holiday season, then turn them off in January and quit carrying that cost.</p><p>This then leads us to the third benefit, Cost. We already talked about the cost saving from not having to have infrastructure sitting around for peak seasonal demand, but even without a seasonal demand driver, studies have shown that as much as 80% of available server capacity sits idol at any point in time. That means that on average your business has a huge amount of capacity (and investment) doing nothing most of the day/week/month/year.</p><p>With virtualization technologies, you can squeeze some of this excess capacity out by simply sharing the servers among your own applications. A Private Cloud would achieve the same result except that you would have a 3rd party providing the platform to your business with possibly greater efficiency and effectiveness than you might be able to achieve with a limited in-house IT organization. Multi-tenant Cloud computing takes it one step further by allowing that sharing to be among multiple enterprises.</p><p>Ultimately, the true nirvana state will be when you pay for only what you use, a "Utility" model. The industry isn't quite there yet so any Cloud you get today will have some excess built into it, but the direction is clear.</p><p>The end result is lower capital cost, lower software and maintenance costs, and lower operating costs. Add these direct cost savings to the intangible savings associated with high availability and less business disruption from unplanned outages, and the business case for moving to a Cloud environment can be compelling.</p><p>How do I get there?</p><p>At the beginning of this Perspective, we said that there wasn't a single definition of the Cloud. One man's Cloud is another's hosted solution. Therefore the trick in moving to the Cloud is really determining if that's what you're getting or is it just a more sophisticated hosted services solution. Not to say the latter is bad, just that the key thing to understand is what you're buying.</p><p>Therefore, ask these key questions:</p><p>1. What is/are the unit(s) of measure that I would be billed for?<br /><br>2. How do you determine how many I need to start with?<br /><br>3. How do you/I determine if the amount is sufficient for my needs now and as time goes on and my business changes?<br /><br>4. In what increments can I obtain additional capacity as my business grows?<br /><br>5. How often can I add/subtract capacity and what is the lead time?<br /><br>6. What redundancy for the Cloud is offered and how do I assess what's right for my business?</p><p>The answers to these questions will help you quickly identify if you're looking at a Cloud.</p><p>In addition to determining the real service being offered, you'll need to do the same due diligence as any traditional hosting services contract; review the providers processes for managing the service, visit the data centers and ensure they are adequately configured/secured, review the providers service level agreements, and check references closely. Because of the shared nature of the Cloud, you'll also need to delve a little deeper into a few areas; security and data protection, roles and responsibilities for management of the various layers of technology, and technology refresh and advancement approach and commitment. Finally, since you'll be moving from where you are to a new environment, you'll need a good explanation and understanding of the migration process; approach, checks and balances, time frames, your labor commitment, and costs. To move an enterprise of any size is going to be a complex undertaking, make sure you and your provider have a firm understanding of what's entailed.</p><p>Summary:</p><p>To recap, in this Perspective we provided a definition for the Cloud and outlined three types (Public, Private and Multi-tenant). We talked about the advantages of moving to a Cloud environment and the key things to consider in moving in that direction.</p><p>As we said, the concept of the Cloud is really quite simple but the underlying technologies and their integration is quite complex. To create a truly Multi-tenant environment with all of the protections and security found on independent servers and the assurances of performance, availability, and redundancy required is a very complex undertaking. Selecting the right provider with the expertise to do this is ultimately the key to achieving the promised benefits of the Cloud.</p>	<br />	<br />		<br />			<br />				<br />					<br /><br />						<p>Mr. Urban is the Founder and Managing Partner of UPi> Urban Partners, Inc. UPi is dedicated to maximizing the success of all involved parties by creating and utilizing a collaborative environment between our team members and clients and within our communities. Leveraging the experience of our team in the service of our clients, we bring to mid-size businesses and organizations the deep business and IT knowledge and experience typically only available to much larger enterprises. We provide the level of experience that can be found in the large consulting firms to the small and midsized organization. UPi's mission is to provide senior executive level experience on, and only on, an as needed basis to its clients and make its charges proportional to the value delivered. With over 25 years of business management experience, Gary has delivered high value to his broad range of companies across multiple industries. He has held executive positions with global consulting organizations (Accenture and Capgemini) and multi-national corporations, including the position of VP IT for Ryder Transportation Services. In addition, he has established UPi and been a partner in another startup business that was later sold to a global company. During his career he has worked with companies in a variety of industries. His experience includes work on strategic business planning, IT management, outsource services management and delivery, business process design, operations strategy, and general project management. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Florida.</p>					<br />

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