Microsoft slates Windows 8 beta for late February 2012

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	Microsoft slates Windows 8 beta for late February 2012 Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will release a public beta of Windows 8 in late February, 2012. The company broke the news at a San Francisco developers event Tuesday, where Antoine Leblond, vice president of Windows Web services, touted Windows Store, the app market that will be the sole distribution channel for applications designed to run in Windows 8's new "Metro" interface. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sprint Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN Easily connect new branch locations using a wireless network that is quick and affordable. It doesn't matter if it's one location or one hundred; a flexible WAN solution will help get you up and running faster. Together, we can help you grow as big as you want to be. Click to continue In this Issue Stocking Stuffers: 15 Great Tech Gifts Under $50 65% of hiring managers plan to add IT staff in 2012 8 Reasons Why CIOs Shouldn't Race to Windows 8 RIM renames BBX as BlackBerry 10 after trademark dispute Alec Baldwin kicked off flight for playing "Words With Friends" on his iPhone IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets Cisco flying into the clouds CNET Accused of Wrapping Malware in Windows Installer for Nmap Security Tool Blazemeter Brings Load and Performance Testing To The Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise: Risks and Rewards 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 Stocking Stuffers: 15 Great Tech Gifts Under $50 Are you holiday shopping for a tech lover or geek, but staying on a budget? We have 15 great suggestions ranging from LED belt buckles to remote-controlled zombies. Read More 65% of hiring managers plan to add IT staff in 2012 Demand for tech professionals is expected to grow in 2012, according to new data from Dice.com. The IT jobs site surveyed 1,200 IT hiring managers and recruiters in November, and 65% said their companies or clients plan to add tech pros to their staff in the first half of 2012. Among those in hiring mode, 27% said they plan to expand headcount by more than 20%. Tech pros with six to 10 years of experience... Read More 8 Reasons Why CIOs Shouldn't Race to Windows 8 Windows 8 touts many new features, but there are a number of things such as cost, testing, compatibility, and training that CIOs need to consider before racing to migrate. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Scaling Out Query Performance with Sybase IQ 15.3 This paper is meant to provide a holistic perspective and introduce the technical concepts behind DQP in general and Sybase® IQ 15.3's DQP implementation through the PlexQ Distributed Query Platform. Read now. RIM renames BBX as BlackBerry 10 after trademark dispute Research In Motion has rebranded its next generation mobile platform as BlackBerry 10, after its use of the BBX brand ran into a trademark dispute in the U.S. Read More Alec Baldwin kicked off flight for playing "Words With Friends" on his iPhone All kinds of folks are getting kicked off planes these days. Days after two RIM employees were kicked off of a plane for creating a drunken raucous, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin was removed from an American Airlines flight himself on Tuesday at LAX. Now Baldwin is no stranger to going on tirades himself, both political and otherwise, and it appears that the critically acclaimed actor was booted off of... Read More IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Learn More! Cisco flying into the clouds So Cisco has made two recent moves to aggressively go after as much cloudshare as it can get. The first was naming CIO Rebecca Jacoby to head up its new Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group, which is an amalgamation of three previously separate business units chartered to increase the company's presence in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS markets. Read More CNET Accused of Wrapping Malware in Windows Installer for Nmap Security Tool Some in the security community are currently ticked, at least disgusted, in regard to the pen-testing Network Mapping tool Nmap after Gordon Lyon, better known as Fyodor, announced on Seclists that C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware! Read More Blazemeter Brings Load and Performance Testing To The Cloud The Internet was a huge disruptor to many industries. The travel and stockbroker markets to name just two. The Cloud promises to be perhaps even more disruptive as it continues to gain scale. One area where I would welcome its disruption is in the QA testing market. Alon Girmonsky and the folks at Blazemeter are hoping to do just that. Read More Tablets in the Enterprise: Risks and Rewards Tablets like the iPad can set your workforce free, but with benefits come risks and tradeoffs, from securing and supporting tablets to budgeting for them. Read More
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