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	Hurricane Sandy crashes Google's party, but not its Nexus announcement As the East Coast prepared for Hurricane Sandy, Google cancelled its big Android announcement planned to take place in New York City today. Breaking with the Steve Jobs-style of high-drama public announcements, Google just went public with the announcement on the official Android blog. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NTT Communications Find your cloud at NTT Communications With a network covering over 150 countries, data center in more than 120 locations, and a broad suite of communications and IT services, NTT Communications' SEAMLESS CLOUD can expand your business globally. Find out more! In this Issue First look: Google's new Nexus 4 Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal Scott Forstall, father of iOS, set to leave Apple next year in sweeping executive shakeup Steve Jobs hinted at Apple's abandonment of optical drives back in 2010 Famous Patriot Hacktivist The Jester Shares Battle Chest of OSINT Tools What shiny new devices can Linux nerds get excited about? Steve Ballmer on Windows 8, Surface launch Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8 Caught taking pictures during Hurricane Sandy Storage optimization considerations for SMBs Election watchdogs keep wary eye on paperless e-voting systems RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mobiquity Inc. The Holy Grail of Mobility: Behavior Change We all do it. Skip taking meds. Put off seeing our doctor. Eat what we shouldn't. People with diabetes can put their lives in danger doing these things. That's why WellDoc's app, DiabetesManager, is such a great case study for learning how to change behavior. It's so effective the FDA approved the app as a medical device. In this podcast, Anand Iyer, president of WellDoc, and Mobiquity customer, lets you in on the app's development and why it works so well. Learn how you can apply behavior change to your business. First look: Google's new Nexus 4 Googles LG-made Nexus is a powerhouse Read More Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal Riverbed Technology will acquire Opnet Technologies for about US$1 billion, the two companies said Monday. Read More Scott Forstall, father of iOS, set to leave Apple next year in sweeping executive shakeup Apple on Monday announced an executive shakeup of epic proportions. Scott Forstall, who increasingly became a visible member of Apple's executive team where he served as the company's Senior VP of iOS software, will no longer be with the company come 2013. Forstall is a seasoned Apple veteran who first joined the company in 1997 when he came over with Steve Jobs as part of Apple's NeXT acquisition.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Taking the Leap to Virtualization Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Read Now! Steve Jobs hinted at Apple's abandonment of optical drives back in 2010 Back in October 2008, Steve Jobs famously declared that Blu-Ray was a big bag of hurt when it came to licensing issues. Consequently, Jobs said that while Blu-Ray provided a great way for consumers to watch movies, Apple wasn't going to jump in until Blu-Ray became more mainstream. And so, the masses waited. Read More Famous Patriot Hacktivist The Jester Shares Battle Chest of OSINT Tools The famous and often-controversial American patriot hacktivist that goes by the alias th3j35t3r was compared to acting "as David slaying a few giants" in the SANS Institute published whitepaper, Jester Dynamic Lesson Asymmetric Unmanaged Cyber Warfare. Read More What shiny new devices can Linux nerds get excited about? As a Linux Nerd(tm), it's easy to feel left out of the "gadget lust" fun that our Apple and Microsoft brethren so often get to enjoy. New iPads and iPhones (and iWhatevers), Windows 8 tablets named after coffee tables, and so many other bright, shiny new toys just weren't built for us. Sure, Android is cool. I love my Galaxy S3. It's an awesome phone that blows any iOS-powered device out... Read More WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Solve QoS Problems in VoIP Call Centers View this short video "Maintaining High VoIP Quality for Call/Contact Centers with Network Time Machine", to learn more about how carrier and call center customers are using Network Time Machine to rapidly determine problem domain and identify choke points in the network. View Now! Steve Ballmer on Windows 8, Surface launch Steve Ballmer on Windows 8, Surface launch Steve Ballmer commented on the launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet during an event in San Francisco on October 29, 2012 From: networkworld Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 00:48 More in Science & Technology Read More Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8 Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8 Microsoft launched Windows Phone 8 on Monday, it's biggest attempt yet to take on Apple's iOS and Google's Android. From: networkworld Views: 7 0 ratings Time: 02:54 More in Science & Technology Read More Caught taking pictures during Hurricane Sandy Want to bet that every single one of these amateur photographers has at some point made fun of a TV reporter for risking life and limb -- or just being outside - in weather like this? (All photos from Reuters.) Read More Storage optimization considerations for SMBs IT budgets are always tight in small to midsize business, and when it comes to storage, many simply bolt on additional boxes to accommodate growth and data retention regulations without considering the added complexity and long-term costs. Read More Election watchdogs keep wary eye on paperless e-voting systems As the clock winds down to what could turn out to be an extremely close presidential race, some election watchdogs are keeping a wary eye on paperless electronic voting machines that are scheduled to be used in several key states and jurisdictions around the country. Read More
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