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	9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012 Nine networking and IT startups that could hit the big-time in 2012. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference R U ready for the consumerization of corporate IT? Social media. Mobile devices. Web apps. Desktop virtualization. They're transforming corporate computing. R U ready? Attend Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) March 4-6, 2012 in San Francisco and learn how to manage this major trend to unleash productivity, while mitigating risk and safeguarding enterprise security. Learn more. In this Issue 10 Best iPhone Apps for Healthy Living E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says Using Handsets While Driving: A Tale of Two Solutions One way the iPhone 4S dwarfs the iPhone 4 AT&T adds 11 cities to 4G LTE network Four cities getting Sprint LTE in first half of 2012 Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending Barnes & Noble may spin off Nook business When Open Source Doesn't Do It Anymore WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications Simplify Telecom Provisioning By working with a single-source provider, customers get a dedicated team of experienced telecom professionals. This relieves you of complex and confusing carrier management tasks, letting you focus on your company's top objectives and projects. Read Now! 10 Best iPhone Apps for Healthy Living Make good on your New Year's resolution to live a healthier lifestyle through diet and exercise -- and let iPhone apps help you. Here are 10 iPhone apps that s will keep you from slacking off in 2012. Read More E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says An electronic ballot scanning device set for use in this year's presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission found. Read More Using Handsets While Driving: A Tale of Two Solutions OK, I know my (consistent, by the way) support of the suggested ban on using handsets while operating a motor vehicle hasn't been popular. The counterarguments range from the federal government overstepping its bounds (I agree with that one) to the fact that there are many more potential distractions while driving (also true, but irrelevant) to the classic fallback of other-idiots-can't-handle-multitasking-but-I-can. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now One way the iPhone 4S dwarfs the iPhone 4 The iPhone 4S may bear a disappointingly familiar look to the iPhone 4 for those who had been eagerly expecting a distinctive iPhone 5 under the Christmas tree, but the 4S sure sounds different than its predecessor, and no, I'm not talking about Siri. Read More AT&T adds 11 cities to 4G LTE network AT&T announced Thursday it has rolled out 4G LTE services to 11 more markets, including New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Read More Four cities getting Sprint LTE in first half of 2012 Attention residents of Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas: You will soon have three LTE carriers to choose from. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Enterprises Falling Short with Analytics Tools This paper examines the use of analytics and reporting, and offers best practices for integrating solutions for improved business decision-making. Learn More Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending Gartner has lowered its IT spending forecast for 2012 down to 3.7% from 4.6%, meaning companies like Cisco and its competitors will be fighting harder for fewer bucks. Gartner says that growth rates in computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services and telecom equipment and services, will slow this year due to a series of factors. Read More Barnes & Noble may spin off Nook business Bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook digital business to help it grow, following strong growth in sales of the Nook reader and tablet and digital content in the nine-week holiday period ending Dec. 31. Read More When Open Source Doesn't Do It Anymore CouchDB and CouchOne founder Damien Katz has created a stir with his announcement that he and most of his team will be moving away from continuing to develop the Apache CouchDB NoSQL database and focusing extensively on the more commercially suited Couchbase Server 2.0. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 10 essential data center appliances With all of the noise in data center networking focused on switches, fabrics and lossless Ethernet standards, appliances like WAN optimizers and application accelerators are often overlooked. But they are important components of the data center/cloud infrastructure, especially as organizations virtualize desktop applications for remote sites. Here's a listing of 10 of the top players, and their products, in data center appliances. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES IPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 3 iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 Cisco dumps the UMI personal telepresence very quietly IT pros lament: Low pay, no perks 2 days for amateur hacker to hack smart meter, fake readings Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 Tips from IT professionals Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 The future is now: CES 2012 video sneak peek
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