HP's Apotheker changes his tune on mobility

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	HP's Apotheker changes his tune on mobility Six months after laying out his "strategic vision" for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realize it. And abandoned the mobile computing space. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xsigo Systems Guide: Converged Infrastructure for the Private Cloud This guide discusses the infrastructure challenges of the next-gen private cloud. Traditional networks limit flexibility and increase your workload. Read this 24-page guide to learn about new fabric architectures that virtualize connectivity to increase efficiency and accelerate management by 100X. Read now! In this Issue HP Should Open Source WebOS iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Aug. 19 Security rundown for week ending Aug. 19 3G cellular network-in-a-box provides service to disaster zones and remote locations Cisco adds wireless-only endpoint security option NASA is NOT predicting an alien invasion Android apps double Web use AT&T-T-Mobile merger will hurt wireless market, says Yankee Group US surges to near global lead in mobile data AT&T to kill $10/month texting plan WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More HP Should Open Source WebOS After paying almost Two Billion Dollars for Palm and its WebOS, HP announced that it is exiting the mobile phone and tablet business yesterday. After dumping who knows how many more millions of dollars in developing and marketing their still new WebOs tablet. What a colossal waste of time, money and resources. Read More iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Aug. 19 This week in rumors, there was a warming trend in the iOSsphere with renewed hope that iPhone 5 might actually have LTE radios after all, along with a magnetic power connector, and with speculation the iPhone was delayed because of either an HTC patent complaint or Steve Jobs' upcoming biography. Read More Security rundown for week ending Aug. 19 Some older assumptions about security -- such as firewalls are needed for perimeter defense, and we'll all make do with reusable passwords and browser-based SSL connections provide great security -- were once again ripped apart as we heard this week from several individuals who say they simply don't agree. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Managing Service Quality Across the Infrastructure With zero tolerance for latency of web applications and a near total dependence on technology in the workplace as the norm, an unpredictable and unreliable infrastructure is too big a risk for today's speed of business. View Now 3G cellular network-in-a-box provides service to disaster zones and remote locations We've all cursed our cell service providers when the signal peters out. But what if there's no signal at all because you are so remote or the network has been knocked offline by a disaster? Now there's a turnkey 3G cellular network-in-a-box that emergency agencies and commercial businesses are using to bring a signal to where none exists. Read More Cisco adds wireless-only endpoint security option Remember back in April, when Cisco overhauled its network management strategy and announced the Cisco Enterprise Prime product portfolio? The company has now decided to offer at least one component of the suite -- the Identity Services Engine (ISE) -- as a stand-alone, wireless-only module. Read More NASA is NOT predicting an alien invasion There has been a bit of a dust-up in the space information world this week as a number of press outlets seized on what at first blush was reported to be NASA study saying alien armies might destroy Earth because of our greenhouse gas issues. Thing is the report is real and interesting mind you but it isn't NASA's. Which has NASA concerned because a number of sites have headlines like this: Read More WEBCAST: BMC Simplify, Improve, and Save with Dynamic Workload Management Join us in our conversation with John McKenny, BMC vice president of Worldwide Marketing for Mainframe Service Management (MSM), as we uncover the advantages of dynamic workload management. Learn More! Android apps double Web use The question of whether Android users really value mobile applications has been answered in the affirmative, according to a new Nielsen report. Read More AT&T-T-Mobile merger will hurt wireless market, says Yankee Group T-Mobile customers who expect to get better prices from the proposed AT&T merger should think again, according to a new Yankee Group report. Read More US surges to near global lead in mobile data U.S. consumers are among the world's most voracious consumers of mobile data, motivated by the country's homegrown technology industry, according to analyst Chetan Sharma. Read More AT&T to kill $10/month texting plan AT&T confirmed today that it will dump its $10 per month texting plan next week. Read More
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