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	Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype It's well established that Apple's iPhone was in the works for a good 2 years before it became a household name at Macworld 2007, and interestingly enough, the idea to develop a phone in the first place was borne out of Apple's previous work on tablet prototypes in the early 2000s. Steve Jobs admitted as much to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher during an appearance at the 2010 All Things D conference.... Read More WHITE PAPER: EVault (formerly i365) 12 Best Practices for Data Backup and Recovery When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. With tapes you never really know if your data is usable until you try to restore it, at which point it's too late. View Now In this Issue Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really 9 itsy-bitsy, teeny-weenie computers 15 amazing tech feats and world records IT groups petition Apple to "fix" Bonjour protocol Victim of half-million-dollar cybercrime tells tale of fighting back Cloud platform comparison: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director and OpenStack Hey Sprint LTE phone owners: Carrier now has a 4G network for some of you Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social and cloud Microsoft raises the bar with SQL Server 2012 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant remote support with LogMeIn Rescue With LogMeIn Rescue, you can start a support session in just 60 seconds. Connect 24/7 to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. You'll get in, solve the problem and save the day without ever leaving your desk. Try it free today. Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really Some chucklehead working for Microsoft thought it would be funny to slip a thinly camouflaged sexist remark -- "big boobs" -- into software code that connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft's HyperV virtualization product. Read More 9 itsy-bitsy, teeny-weenie computers There's a "tiny" revolution unfolding in the personal computer industry led by the Raspberry Pi, which has become so popular that it's difficult to buy one right now. The idea of small computers is being driven by hardware hackers and hobbyists. Here are eight products, and a project in development, that are leading the effort to make PCs small enough to slip into your pocket. Read More 15 amazing tech feats and world records Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer's Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks For the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure Aruba positioned in the Leaders quadrant, in Gartner's new Magic Quadrant report. A vendor in the Leaders quadrant demonstrates completeness of vision and the ability to execute. "Enterprises must choose infrastructure vendors that support network services, including security & management, and can integrate wired and wireless networking products." Learn more. IT groups petition Apple to "fix" Bonjour protocol Apple's Bonjour and AirPlay technologies make networking with peripherals a snap for individual consumers but it poses an array of challenges on enterprise networks. Enough is enough, say a group of higher ed IT managers, who say Apple needs to make some changes. Read More Victim of half-million-dollar cybercrime tells tale of fighting back It started out as an ordinary workday for Michelle Marsico, who runs a business based in Redondo Breach, Calif., handling escrow funds for clients in real estate. But when she went online to check the funds-transfer activity in her commercial bank account, she found to her horror that it had been cleaned out by cybercrooks to the tune of almost half a million dollars. Read More Cloud platform comparison: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director and OpenStack Cloud computing remains one of the hottest topics in IT today given the promise of greatly improved efficiencies, significant cost savings, scalable infrastructure and high performance and secured data storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch File Transfer Best Practices for Business Class File Sharing Solutions Learn what's driving the need for improvements in business class file sharing & why IT needs to manage file sharing for the organization. Learn More. Hey Sprint LTE phone owners: Carrier now has a 4G network for some of you Sprint, which has been building up its LTE smartphone lineup this year, Monday finally turned on a 4G LTE network in 15 cities to support those devices. Read More Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social and cloud To hear Oracle President Mark Hurd tell it, the $37.1 billion hardware and software company is well ahead of competitors on any number of fronts, from transitioning customers to SaaS and the cloud, to incorporating social technology into its products. Exuding supreme confidence in Oracle's emerging cloud services, hardware/software combos such as exabyte storage and its latest buyouts, Hurd said in a recent interview with IDG Enterprise that the main thing keeping him awake at night is "customers making decisions and we're not there. We've got to make sure we're there." 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