What you need to know about Apple's iOS 4.2; Could Windows Phone 7 succeed with IT?

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	Could Windows Phone 7 succeed with IT? Hooks to SharePoint, BizTalk, and SQL Server could appeal to Microsoft shops if security is improved Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed What's Needed for Cloud Computing Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. Read now! In this Issue iOS 4.2: What you need to know 4G Turning Into 'Meaningless' Moniker Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Supercharged Android: 12 apps to boost your smartphone Juniper Buys Trapeze: Unified Networking's Increasing Importance The well-dressed iPad: Chic accessories for an elegant tablet RIM denies reports that Indian official snooped for it Speak It for iPhone and iPad 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing Mobile broadband industry focusing on cloud iOS 4.2: Ten great features iOS 4.2: Ten features it still needs Palm preps tablet-friendly application framework Woz Bets on Android Over iPhone Long-Term Exploring WLAN Client and Infrastructure Density: Meru's 500-Client Demo Creepy RFID Tracking Coming Soon to Humans Embryos WEBCAST: MegaPath Hosted VoIP: What about Service Quality? Learn the basics on how hosted voice services work. Join Joel Thomas and get insight into small business advantages for adopting hosted voice, types of businesses that benefit most from hosted VoIP, and quality indicators for evaluating service providers. Learn More Now. iOS 4.2: What you need to know If you cast your mind back to high school physics, you might recall what's dubbed the Grand Unified Theory--an attempt to explain how three of the primary forces of the unviverse were once a single, unified force. So you might call iOS 4.2 the "grand unification" release of iOS, as it at long last brings the iPad, the iPhone, and iPod touch under the same roof. Read More 4G Turning Into 'Meaningless' Moniker The meaning of the term '4G wireless' becomes unclear as the ITU rules that WiMax and LTE don't qualify, while T-Mobile claims its current network is already 4G. Read More Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Let's look back at the IT companies, products and people who exhibited turkey-like behavior in 2010. Read More Supercharged Android: 12 apps to boost your smartphone Make your Android device run longer, run smarter, and run almost anywhere with this collection of essential apps Read More Juniper Buys Trapeze: Unified Networking's Increasing Importance The rumors are true – and unified networking continues to increase in importance. Don't count the WLAN guys not selling switches and routers out yet, though.I must say that I found the news that Juniper is buying Trapeze to be surprising, despite the fact that rumors had been flying quite literary for months. I usually don't comment on rumors, and didn't in this case. But in retrospect, this deal does make sense. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Choosing the Right Active Directory Bridge Solution for You The importance of a solid Active Directory (AD) bridge in your diverse IT environment can't be minimized. An AD bridge allows Unix, Linux and Mac systems to coexist with a Windows infrastructure. Further, it consolidates countless identities and passwords, reducing complexity and cost while improving security and productivity. Read Now The well-dressed iPad: Chic accessories for an elegant tablet Only the best for your baby Read More RIM denies reports that Indian official snooped for it Research In Motion denied reports in Indian media that it had received information from an Indian government official questioned by police Monday during an investigation into the leaking of information to telecommunications companies. Read More Speak It for iPhone and iPad A great text-to-speech engine suits every user's needs. And that's a pretty fair description of what Future Apps offers in its hybrid Speak It text-to-speech app. Read More 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky -- everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars. There are tons of iPhone apps that can help everyone who has a little (or a lot) of astronomer blood in them watch the sky with more authority. Here we take a look at a few of the free apps that can help you out. Read More Mobile broadband industry focusing on cloud The mobile broadband industry is facing a total transformation and services will be increasingly in the cloud, according to Weimin Ying, president of LTE network product line for Huawei Technologies. Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Securing the Social Web Organizations around the world are racing to take advantage of social networking and media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Along with these new resources, comes new risk as user-generated content circumvents traditional security technologies such as antivirus and URL filtering. View Now iOS 4.2: Ten great features iOS 4.2 marks the first time that all of Apple's mobile devices are sitting at the same OS table. This unification brings a handful of key new features to all three devices, but it also finally catches the iPad up with Apple's other. This is the first time that users of Apple's tablet can revel in major iOS 4 benefits like multitasking, folders, and a unified Mail inbox--features that iPhone and iPod touch users have enjoyed since June. Read More iOS 4.2: Ten features it still needs Now that iOS 4.2 is out and we've lauded its best features, it's time to take a look at its biggest omissions. (It's only fair, right?) We took an informal survey of Macworld editors to determine the most-hoped-for features that still aren't here, then whittled the list down to the top ten. Read More Palm preps tablet-friendly application framework HP has demonstrated Enyo, an upcoming Javascript framework for webOS. Read More Woz Bets on Android Over iPhone Long-Term Steve Jobs may not want to admit that Apple's iPhone will ultimately lose the market to Android, but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has no such hesitations. Read More Exploring WLAN Client and Infrastructure Density: Meru's 500-Client Demo The increasing number of clients (and their increasing volumes of all kinds of traffic) in any given physical area are driving a renewed interest in WLAN dense deployments. Meru's 500-client demo gives us an excellent opportunity to explore this important direction in more detail.I've been an advocate of the dense-deployment philosophy since I wrote my first White Paper on the topic back in 2004. The idea is simple - ignore the traditional site-survey process, deploy APs with capacity rather than coverage alone in mind, use existing wiring for AP interconnect and backhaul wherever possible (to minimize installation expense), and maintain capacity as user demands (traffic loads,... Read More Creepy RFID Tracking Coming Soon to Humans Embryos Tracking via RFID and barcodes will soon start at pre-birth stages when babies are only human embryos. Some radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses seem cool, while others seem downright creepy. We've previously seen that RFID can be used to track people from the cradle to the grave, but now there are plans to start tracking at pre-birth when babies are only embryos. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES Attachmate buying Novell for $2.2 billion The Cold War: Then and now Creepy RFID tracking coming soon to human embryos 12-year-old nails Microsoft certification 12 Ubuntu derivatives you should consider China Internet 'hijack' hugely exaggerated, says researcher Cisco co-founder now talks, lives, breathes turkey Scalpers bought tickets with CAPTCHA-busting botnet Why U.S. IT jobs aren't coming back Supercharged Android: 12 apps to boost your smartphone
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