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	JR Raphael: Android 4.2, Jelly Bean: The complete FAQ What's new in Google's Android 4.2 Jelly Bean release, and what will it mean for you? Here are answers to all of your most pressing questions. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue Patrick Thibodeau: Sandy's IT and climate change benefit Jonny Evans: Pride: Apple's biggest weakness gives Amazon Kindle easy fire in the iPad mini war Richi Jennings: AMD and ARM dream up green 64-bit server SoCs JR Raphael: Google's Nexus 4: A closer look at Android's new flagship phone Stuart Kippelman: Tablet vs. PC: Let your data decide Preston Gralla: Consumers greet Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface tablet with a big yawn Michael Horowitz: Defensive Computing in a Hurricane - Part 2 JR Raphael: Why Google's moving to a phone-like UI for Android tablets Larry DeBoever: I answered the CEO with just two words: 'The Cloud' RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Patrick Thibodeau: Sandy's IT and climate change benefit Sandy is forcing a lot of people to work at home today, and that's a good thing for cutting greenhouse gases. Having fewer cars idling away in traffic must help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Read More Jonny Evans: Pride: Apple's biggest weakness gives Amazon Kindle easy fire in the iPad mini war Amazon is taking the fight to Apple, comparing the iPad mini to the Kindle Fire HD and claiming to offer a superior product. The move reflects the critical nature of the post-PC battle to stake a claim in the future of IT. Read More Richi Jennings: AMD and ARM dream up green 64-bit server SoCs AMD will build an ARM-based 64-bit system-on-a-chip (SoC) for servers. It'll be clusterable, thanks to AMD's SeaMicro fabric technology, and sip electrical power. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if cloud-computing services will opt for Opteron. Read More JR Raphael: Google's Nexus 4: A closer look at Android's new flagship phone Google's Nexus 4 promises to provide the ultimate Android experience -- and it very well may have the goods to deliver. Here's an up-close look at the new flagship phone. Read More WEBCAST: Aternity Managing IT through the Lens of the End User Hosted by BMC Software and Aternity, this live webinar - Tuesday, October 30th 2012 ~ 11 AM PT or 2 PM ET - will reveal the value of complementing your Application Performance Monitoring (APM) strategy with End User Activity Monitoring (EUAM) in order to enable better user-focused IT services that drive optimal business practices. Register now. Stuart Kippelman: Tablet vs. PC: Let your data decide Will tablets replace the PC? Will the Microsoft Surface tablet cut into iPad market share? Will the broader mobile computing space replace what we know of a desktop and notebook computer? These are questions I'm asked many times a day, and there isn't a clear answer. Read More Preston Gralla: Consumers greet Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface tablet with a big yawn If Microsoft was hoping for a big-bang Windows 8 launch, it's disappointed: a poll from the Associated Press finds that people are greeting the operating system --- and the Surface tablet --- with a big yawn. Read More Michael Horowitz: Defensive Computing in a Hurricane - Part 2 Last year, prompted by Irene, I wrote about Defensive Computing in a Hurricane. This time, for Hurricane Sandy, some old and new advice. Read More JR Raphael: Why Google's moving to a phone-like UI for Android tablets One of the most noticeable changes in Android 4.2 is the way the platform looks on 10-inch tablets -- and now, the Android team is explaining the reason for the revised UI. Read More Larry DeBoever: I answered the CEO with just two words: 'The Cloud' I walked into my new client's call center and counted 19 PCs from two different manufacturers, 11 different models, four different OSs and three different versions of Microsoft Office. And that was in one room. Read More
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