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Today is a hot day for your Acer Windows 8-bound notebook family with not just the V5 series popping up for touchscreen laptop justice, but with the Aspire M5 Series Ultrabook as well. What we’ve got here with the M5 Ultrabook is a unit that will be sold exclusively by Best Buy stores in the United States – so don’t expect them anywhere else, basically. Here you’ll have an 8-hour battery life supporting a 14-inch Aspire M5-481PT and a 15.6-inch Aspire M5-581T. They come in different colors, too!

The smaller of the two units here comes in a lovely silver cover made of aluminum alloy while the larger model in a non-touch configuration comes in a dark gray magnesium alloy cover. The smaller rings in at 4.5 pounds while the larger is just about 5 pounds while they both work with Acer Green Instant On as well as Acer Always Connect.

The Instant On feature allows your device to wake up from sleep in less than 2 seconds and from a deep sleep in 6 seconds. Always Connect then connects to the web in 2.5 second by remembering wi-fi spots galore. AcerCloud technology is ready and willing here on the M5 series and both units work with 3rd generation Intel Core i5 processors with Turbo Boost Technology 2.0.

Both units work with two USB 3.0 ports, backlit keyboards, Dolby Home Theater v4, Acer AntiTheft, and a lovely HDMI port for HD connection to gigantic monitors. The 14-inch version of this series of computers features a 10-point multi-touch display for full Windows 8 touchscreen interaction. You’ve got a vivid HD display with “edge-to-edge” design as well as Windows 8′s full collection of touch-friendly abilities.

Best Buy will be carrying both units starting on October 26th, with prices being ever so slightly different for the two different models. The Aspire M5-481PT with full touch support begin at $799.99, while the 15.6-inch Aspire M5-581T configurations begin at $699.99. This may very well be the first time in history that a pair of notebooks were released that the larger display has the lower price – how about that!

Acer Aspire M5 Series Ultrabooks detailed with touch for Windows 8 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’re hesitant to work with your data stored in this ephemeral location called “the cloud”, you’re not alone – but AT&T and IBM have announced a team-up today that’ll send a shock through the market that’ll have masses of users converting. When you’ve got a new technology – or any technology that people may be hesitant to use in general – your best bet in making people adopt it is to prove to them that it’s reliable at the same time as it is either fun or helpful to use. To do that you need brand power and better yet, cross-brand power like AT&T and IBM are demonstrating this week.

AT&T has announced that they’ll be pushing a global network that users will be able to utilize with cloud-stored data available from anywhere they may roam. IBM is part of this deal with the actual physical data-storage facilities – that data’s gotta be somewhere, after all. These two titans will split revenue from the deal, with Andy Geisse, head of AT&T’s unit for business clients noting simply that this collaboration will be “huge.”

If you’ve got AT&T, one trusted brand, and IBM, another trusted brand, joining in on one cross-branding project, their mutual trust for one another will blossom and grow in the public eye, providing a bit of synergy, as it were. AT&T is one of several of the largest mobile data providers in the United States, each of them competing now with not just a collection of the best of the best devices, but services that work for these devices unique to the carrier as well.

With IBM on AT&T’s side, the other carriers will be forced to move forward with their own “cloud” solution. It’s not going to be easy to match up against IBM, one of the world’s best-known brands both in and out of the data storage universe.

Are you convinced of the security provided by a crossover project like this? Will you use The Cloud now that a team-up of this caliber has been made available?

AT&T’s team up with IBM is exactly the jolt “the cloud” needs is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has laid any rumors of another acquisition to rest today. Many were thinking that NetApp might be the next buyout target for Oracle, which has already purchased 8 other companies this year, but speaking to CNBC today, Ellison said that Oracle is done acquiring other companies… at least for now. Instead, Oracle will be focusing on its own “organic growth” for a while, as the company thinks it has all of the pieces in place to facilitate such growth.

“We’re not planning any major acquisitions right now,” Ellison told CNBC’s Closing Bell at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. “We are really focused on the fact that over the last seven or eight years, we’ve re-engineered all of our applications for the cloud. We think that’s a huge opportunity for organic growth.” So, it seems that a NetApp acquisition is off the table, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that Oracle won’t bite at some point in the future.

Ellison went onto say that NetApp would be a major acqusition, saying that NetApp is a good company but reiterating Oracle’s intention to focus on growth instead of new buyouts for the time being. Once Oracle has buckled down and stockpiled some cash, however, the company could pursue more acquisitions, but from Ellison’s phrasing, it seems like any big purchases are a few years down the road.

For now, Oracle has the cloud market on lock down, with Ellison saying that his company has made it very hard for any niche cloud provider to compete. Hearing that, it’s no wonder that Oracle wants to focus on its own growth and stay away from new acquisitions for a while. We’ll be watching Oracle closely in the coming months, so keep it tuned right here to SlashGear for more information.

Oracle isn’t planning NetApp acquisition, Ellison says is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Samsung Electronics has just lifted the veil on their next-generation cloud computing solution products, which are spearheaded by a trio of devices known as the B Series Cloud Base Station, the C Series Cloud Monitor, and the new X Series Cloud Box. These were developed in order to respond to increasing customer demand, and intend to further expand the company’s lineup of virtual desktop solutions. All three cloud computing solutions lets you securely store and access data on one centralized server or network, which helps consolidate servers and doing away with the fear of stolen or misplaced data.

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If you like your data local, but crave remote access, you’ve now got options like Synology’s new DiskStation DS413j — a network-attached storage (NAS) server for your own private cloud. The feature-packed box has four drive bays for a total of 16TB storage, and you can mix and match HDDs of different sizes without losing the comfort of RAID. Along with what you’d expect from NAS, its media server will stream content to your console or TV via DLNA or UPnP and push tunes to your stereo, with iOS and Android apps for couch DJing. The server will sync your files across computers if you wish, and give you access to all that data on the move via the internet or mobile apps. And, if you need more files, you can download directly using your favorite protocols — it’ll even automate them if you trust RSS feeds to make recommendations. All this can be yours for around $380, depending on the retailer, but don’t forget to budget for drives to fill those empty bays.

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