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	Microsoft: Don't hate on IE 10 Microsoft says its latest version of Internet Explorer clears out a lot of clutter and creates a more immersive browser experience when paired with Windows 8's touch environment, and that it can be navigated by mouse and keyboard as well, although from the sounds of it not as elegantly. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Gaining Total Messaging System Visibility Your company's multi-platform messaging systems are its lifeblood – so maximizing performance and keeping uptime high is critical. In this Quest business brief, see how your real-time communication systems can operate under the highest performance levels while staying healthy, available and secure. Read Now! In this Issue Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Ultrabooks in Pictures: The Newest, Thinnest, Lightest Laptops Apple's stock has jumped 50% since Steve Jobs died Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand Live blogging Xconomy's "Next-gen consumer apps" panel Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE or bust in 2012 Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer weigh 129 pounds Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure It's just a phone, let it go Cisco Rolls out its Next Generation Fabric Computing FTC goes after deceptive online car loan payoff promises BYOD: Making Sense of the Work-Personal Device Blur WHITE PAPER: APC Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision. We show that it is both easy and inexpensive for any data center, large or small, new or old, to get started allocating costs and carbon, but the expense and complexity escalate and ROI declines when excessive precision is specified. Learn More Alcatel-Lucent switch pushes Cisco, HP at the edge Alcatel-Lucent, enterprise campus edge, multimedia networking, application fluency, Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches, HP, 40G Ethernet Read More Ultrabooks in Pictures: The Newest, Thinnest, Lightest Laptops Ultrabooks, a term coined by Intel, give name to the increasingly thin, light, fast and (relatively) cheap Windows laptops popping up over the last year in reaction to the Apple MacBook Air and the iPad-led tablet craze. Read More Apple's stock has jumped 50% since Steve Jobs died Mashable's Todd Wasserman did the math and reported the results in this blog post: At Tuesday's close, Apple's stock price was around $575.64, a 52% jump since Oct. 5, the day Jobs died and Apple's stock was selling for $378.25. Of course, there are reasons for the optimism. Apple's reported blowout numbers in its fiscal first quarter with revenues of $43 billion and a profit of $13 billion. Poor Tim... Read More Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand The number of job postings in the cloud computing industry is growing so rapidly that there aren't enough qualified workers available to fill the positions, according to an analysis of hiring trends by Wanted Analytics. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Gartner recommends up to 300% more Wi-Fi to support iPads! Tablets, like the iPad, are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise. Execs, doctors, teachers, and sales people are demanding more access to corp. apps and resources over their mobile devices. According to Gartner, the limited networking capabilities of the iPad will force IT departments to increase Wi-Fi capacity by 300%. Learn More Live blogging Xconomy's "Next-gen consumer apps" panel I'm here in Cambridge, MA today watching the Xconomy panel on next-generation consumer mobile applications. The panelists today are Meredith Flynn-Ripley of HeyWire, Jeff Chow of Spring Partners, Michael Putnam of Jana and Charles Teague of LoseIt. The panel is being moderated by FitnessKeeper CEO Jason Jacobs. Read More Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE or bust in 2012 A Verizon Wireless executive has told Dow Jones Newswires that the carrier plans a huge expansion of its 4G LTE wireless network this year and plans only to roll out 4G-capable phones. Read More Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer weigh 129 pounds We had an encyclopedia set in my childhood home, although at the moment I am at a loss to recall which brand. Read More Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure Meru Networks this week unveiled virtualized versions of its wireless LAN infrastructure software, part of trend that's simplifying enterprise WLANs and eliminating hardware. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan What to Look for in Smart Card Readers Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More It's just a phone, let it go Three pieces of unsolicited advice this morning after reading this story from Dunwoody, Ga., on the Web site of the Atlanta FOX affiliate: If you should drop your phone down a trash chute, do not attempt to climb in and retrieve it, because you might get stuck and require rescue by the fire department. Read More Cisco Rolls out its Next Generation Fabric Computing Cisco as a server vendor! Ha! Read More FTC goes after deceptive online car loan payoff promises The Federal Trade Commission today said it got five car dealerships to stop running ads in which they promise to pay off a consumer's trade-in no matter what the consumer owes on the vehicle. Read More BYOD: Making Sense of the Work-Personal Device Blur The bring-your-own-device trend intersects the lines of personal and work lives, stirring up a mess of problems for enterprise IT leaders, from dealing with lost devices to keeping corporate data out of consumer cloud services. Read More
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