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	Microsoft posts record quarter but says tablets have "cannibalized" netbooks Despite weak consumer demand for PCs, Microsoft posted a record first quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the period that ended Sept. 30. This beat analysts expected sales of $17.2 billion. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Taking Business Relationships to the Next Level Want to make your IT department a business influencer and game changer? Here directly from a panel of Houston CIOs how to transcend your "service provider" relationship with stakeholders and become a trusted business peer and partner at CIO Perspectives Houston! Register today! In this Issue 20 high-tech toilets Is Microsoft gunning for Yahoo again? Book Review: Alex Hills' Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio WiGig: Making the (Surprising) Case for 60 GHz. Cisco to acquire video delivery startup BNI Researchers customize Android for sophisticated smartphone lockdown With lions on the loose, that Twitter limit can bite Feces-powered motorcycle? B.S. Steve Jobs criticizes Obama, Bill Gates, and loathes Android in newly released excerpts from upcoming biography Windows XP: Happy 10th Anniversary, Now Die Already RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Alcatel-Lucent Discover the new currency for the networked-community age Alcatel-Lucent's Allison Cerra and Christina James spent a year pursuing the essence of identity in the virtual world and beyond. With Identity Shift, they examine how technology, identity and expectations intersect, offering a compelling look at how we present and protect ourselves, build trust, and find value in the networked-community age. Click to continue 20 high-tech toilets Lights, music, action! Today's tricked-out toilets have it all. Read More Is Microsoft gunning for Yahoo again? The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Microsoft is preparing a new bid to buy struggling Yahoo, which has prompted widespread speculation in the blogosphere. Read More Book Review: Alex Hills' Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio I first spoke with Alex Hills back in the very early 1990s, when he was building the first campus-scale WaveLAN installation ever, at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More WiGig: Making the (Surprising) Case for 60 GHz. I spoke yesterday with a representative of the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance to get an update on their plans. The Alliance is sponsoring a Plugfest (which I really think should be called an "UnPlugFest") next week in California, during which they expect more than ten participants to test interoperability of some number of 60-GHz. products. Read More Cisco to acquire video delivery startup BNI Cisco Systems plans to acquire BNI Video, a privately held provider of video delivery software for service providers, for about US$99 million. Read More Researchers customize Android for sophisticated smartphone lockdown Virginia Tech researchers for the past month and a half have been working to customize Google's Android software to lock down smartphones so that sensitive data isn't exposed once a user leaves approved locations. They're hopeful the technology – part of a project dubbed GhostBox -- will be production-ready by year-end. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Proactive Performance Management for Enterprise Databases In this Quest Software white paper, read about the inherent challenges of proactive database management, and the what to look for when choosing the right management tool for your company. Read it today. Read now! With lions on the loose, that Twitter limit can bite Modern lawmen use the Internet to inform the public during emergencies, so it was no surprise yesterday when Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz took to Twitter after four dozen dangerous animals - including lions, tigers, wolves and bears - escaped from an Ohio reserve. Read More Feces-powered motorcycle? B.S. A three-wheeled motorbike that runs on the rider's feces? It sounded much too unsanitary to be true. Sure enough, the Toilet Bike Neo isn't powered by waste generated by its rider. It's an operational bike, though, and it's being powered by biogas fuel as it makes its way across Japan. Read More Steve Jobs criticizes Obama, Bill Gates, and loathes Android in newly released excerpts from upcoming biography Steve Jobs first authorized biography, written by acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson, is scheduled to hit stores this Monday. Read More Windows XP: Happy 10th Anniversary, Now Die Already Windows XP is turning 10 years old this month. But shouldn't this former rock star be six feet under by now? Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 2011 tech industry graveyard Fortunately for the tech industry, there's a lot more living than dying, with 2011 seeing the birth of everything from Apple's iPad 2 to the Google+ social network. But inevitably, 2011 has also seen its share of dead, killed, murdered, offed, obliterated companies, technologies and ideas as well. Here's your chance to pay last respects, and who knows, maybe a few of these will sprout back to life. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES Cheap power: An overnight revolution 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO Android smartphone smackdown: Droid Razr vs. Galaxy Nexus Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012 Gartner: 10 key IT trends for 2012 SQL injection attack has compromised nearly 200,000 ASP.Net sites Day 1: Giving up Windows 7 for Ubuntu 11.10 for two weeks OpenFlow and SDN: Networking's future? BlackBerry losing sway in enterprise, study finds
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