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iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending May 1

Greatest comebacks in tech history

Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

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May 02, 2013
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iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending May 1

The truth is out there, in blurry, "leaked" photos of the iPad 5 rear shell, which is just the right size for the compost pile of iOSphere rumors. One thing seems certain: iPad 5 will be rectangular.

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Issue highlights

1. Greatest comebacks in tech history

2. Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

3. Cisco enterprise boss reports on programmability

4. How to Craft the Best BYOD Policy

5. Army Corps database on dams compromised

6. CIOs Struggle with the Great Talent Hunt

7. Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

8. Microsoft's new idea to steal Android users is a good one

9. Journalist threatened, warned not to write about face-recognition at Statue of Liberty

10. AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit

11. 2013 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees: From DSL to Dummies

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference

Is your IT consumerization journey on track?

Embracing consumer technologies for business advantage is a journey. Take the first crucial step at Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) June 2-4, 2013 in San Francisco. Come Sunday for "The Consumerization Journey: A Readiness Assessment Workshop" led by Doug Neal and Jim Ginsburgh of CSC Leading Edge Forum. Learn more at www.citeconference.com

Greatest comebacks in tech history

Knocked flat and left for dead -- these 10 technologies and companies turned around their fate with historic flair READ MORE

Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. READ MORE

Cisco enterprise boss reports on programmability

The Catalyst 3850 switch with Cisco's programmable Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) ASIC and Cisco ONE APIs is in early adopter OpenFlow deployments with academia, reports Rob Soderbery, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse

Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now!

How to Craft the Best BYOD Policy

What is a good BYOD policy? Step one is to clarify the rights of both company and employee and state upfront what's business and what's personal. But there's a lot more to it. In this interview with a technology transactions lawyer, CIO.com explores the do's and don'ts of BYOD policies. READ MORE

Army Corps database on dams compromised

Expert says breach aimed at collecting 'vulnerability and targeting data' for attacks, but another says simple engineering espionage more likely READ MORE

CIOs Struggle with the Great Talent Hunt

Finding IT pros with business skills has always been a bear. So award-winning CIOs are taking radical steps to train, recruit or grow the hybrid staff they covet. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

IT Consolidation Hazards

Providing central services means more bandwidth between data centers and remote users. This ESG paper highlights new research on IT initiatives, how to avoid the common pitfalls of consolidation, and alternatives to ensure application performance, even for remote and mobile users, does not suffer after an IT consolidation. Read now!

Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so random that buyers began to demand to know the day a car rolled off the assembly line. READ MORE

Microsoft's new idea to steal Android users is a good one

News broke a few days ago about a mobile app coming to the Google Play Store, designed to ease the transition from Android to Windows Phone 8. The "Switch to Windows Phone" app being developed by Microsoft and its partner Quixey scans the apps installed on a device, then checks the Windows Phone App store to see if the same apps are available for WP8, and if not, it suggests similar or alternative... READ MORE

Journalist threatened, warned not to write about face-recognition at Statue of Liberty

America's 59 national parks and 108 national monuments are some of our countries greatest treasures, but sometimes things pertaining to "national security" just get really weird. READ MORE

AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit

Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. READ MORE

2013 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees: From DSL to Dummies

Creators of digital subscriber line technology, CDMA and the crash-test dummy among those honored READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking

Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now

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