Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype

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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 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue Top 10 Google Gags Microsoft, Juniper, others in coding consortium issue guidelines for safer applications Are Firewalls Dead? Free OpenStack test bed brings ARM into the cloud The cool art of vintage phone booths AT&T Introduces Shared Data Plans, Following Verizon's Lead Firefox 14 contains vulnerability patches, security-related features Office 2013: What We Still Don't Know Pentaho Wants To Make Hadoop Easy The Downside of the Microsoft Marketing Machine Android malware steals location data from mobile devices 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. Top 10 Google Gags The king of search has thrown some doozies in there over the years. Here are our favorites, in no particular order. Read More Microsoft, Juniper, others in coding consortium issue guidelines for safer applications An industry consortium dedicated to assuring the security of software has issued guidelines to lower the risk that vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers will wind up in finished code. Read More Are Firewalls Dead? Is your firewall running? Well maybe, ah never mind, it's an old, not funny joke. But seriously, is your firewall doing anything for your security? No, really. With so many of today's attacks coming over port 80, is your firewall providing any defense anymore? Has the firewall outgrown its usefulness and been passed over by a new generation of sophisticated attacks? Well that is what Microsoft... 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The new data plans, called Mobile Share, will be available in late August, and current customers will not be required to adopt the new plans. Similar to Verizon's Share Everything plans, AT&T's new shared data plans include unlimited talk and text for all your connected phones, tethering capability, as well as free access to AT&T's more than 30,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. WAN Optimization eGuide In this eGuide, articles from Network World examine the maturing WAN optimization market, collect advice from experts and users on how best to implement these products, and look at new trends. Read on to discover how to make the most of WAN optimization in enterprise networks. Read now. Firefox 14 contains vulnerability patches, security-related features Version 14 of the Mozilla Firefox browser, released Tuesday, offers several new security-related features as well as patches for numerous vulnerabilities. Read More Office 2013: What We Still Don't Know We know that Microsoft Office 2013 emphasizes cloud integration with new Office 365 subscriptions for home users, a greater focus on touchscreens, and Office on Demand virtualization, but what about the things we don't know? Microsoft is keeping quiet about several key issues, including pricing, release dates, and whether the software giant will be including Android and iOS devices in its Office 2013 rollout. Read More Pentaho Wants To Make Hadoop Easy Everyone wants to be in on the Big Data gold rush. But the fact is using Hadoop and many other Big Data tools takes some specific skills and experience that put the power of big data analytics beyond the reach of many us. Pentaho, the open source powerhouse in the business intelligence space wants to change that equation. Pentaho's visual user interfaces allow even non-programmers the ability to... Read More The Downside of the Microsoft Marketing Machine CIO Insight tells us consumers are holding back on buying PCs - either awaiting the arrival of Windows 8 devices or buying tablets and smartphones (http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Latest-News/Slumping-PC-Sales-Ripple-Throu...). IDC reports that anticipating of Windows 8 devices has (predictably) led to sluggish sales of PCs in the last quarter (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/071212-windows8-update-260860.html).... Read More Android malware steals location data from mobile devices BitDefender Labs has discovered Android malware that regularly broadcasts the location of the infected mobile device to a remote server. Read More
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