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	IT Blogwatch: Windows 8 tablet PC OS release: iPad 3 showdown Rumor has it that Microsoft will demonstrate a Windows 8-based tablet PC OS next week. That puts it on-course for a release around the time that the iPad 3 is predicted. Few are expecting an iPad 3 killer, but Redmond has to do something to respond to Apple and Android. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers reach out and touch something. Not to mention: Volcanic ash and cloud computing ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell A Look Inside the Efficient Data Center In this age of global competitiveness and 24/7/365 availability, enterprises the world over must streamline operations and boost agility. Those imperatives have turned efficiency into a catchword of modern business, with IT the arbiter of what that means for a company. Learn more. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Beginning of the end for Microsoft's Ballmer? Hedge fund "star" says he should resign. Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes 'iCloud' is amnesty for file-sharers Douglas Haider: Bring your own device? That's easy. Try App Internet. Darlene Storm: Shadowy eyes and ears of NSA to modernize with cloud and crypto centers Ken Gagne: Mom's first iPad: An unexpected reception Matt Hauser: If Watson can win on Jeopardy, can't I just use machine translation? Robert L. Mitchell: Why politicians don't get GIS Josh Stephens: Lady Gaga breaks Amazon.com, and what you should learn from it Sound Off: Worst. Vacation. Ever. Shark Tank: Outta here WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Add Business Value Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Preston Gralla: Beginning of the end for Microsoft's Ballmer? Hedge fund "star" says he should resign. There have been plenty of people in the technorati who have said that the only way Microsoft will thrive is if CEO Steve Ballmer steps down. But now someone with a lot more influence is saying he should resign: Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn says it's time for Ballmer to go. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes 'iCloud' is amnesty for file-sharers Apple's music cloud looks a lot finer than Amazon or Google's attempts, and comes with two added extras: track bit rates will be improved, and there's a chance the labels may get a little cash back from file-sharers -- but who owns your data in the cloud? Read More Douglas Haider: Bring your own device? That's easy. Try App Internet. There has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of enterprise IT organizations supporting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs. I clearly believe BYOD programs are the wave of the future. But earlier today, my viewpoint was expanded to the point that I now believe that BYOD is just the tip of the iceberg with regards to the challenges faced by corporate IT. What's the bigger picture, you ask? Have you heard of "The App Internet"? Read More Darlene Storm: Shadowy eyes and ears of NSA to modernize with cloud and crypto centers Top dog and CIO of the super secret NSA, Lonny Anderson, spoke with Federal News Radio about NSA's mission and how it will use the cloud and new crypto centers to modernize the shadowy eyes and ears responsible for global eavesdropping and America's national defense. Read More Ken Gagne: Mom's first iPad: An unexpected reception I gave my mom an iPad, hoping she'd accept it as her first computer. Her response was nothing I'd ever imagined. Read More DOWNLOAD: Hitachi Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. Download free 30-day trial Matt Hauser: If Watson can win on Jeopardy, can't I just use machine translation? Organizations must make decisions as to which content warrants higher-quality human-based translation, which content can be handled effectively via MT, and which content may benefit from a hybrid approach of MT and human translation. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Why politicians don't get GIS Yes, geographic information systems are used for redistricting and mapping wetlands. But as a business intelligence tool the capabilities of that in-house GIS are often overlooked by policy makers. Read More Josh Stephens: Lady Gaga breaks Amazon.com, and what you should learn from it Lady Gaga just released her new album on Amazon.com for the price of $.99 for the entire album. The result: it was so successful that it failed. Amazon's network and systems couldn't handle the load created by all of the customers trying to download this album. Read More Sound Off: Worst. Vacation. Ever. For an upcoming feature story in Computerworld, share your tales of summer woe: tell us the worst thing that happened back at the office while you were out on vacation, and how you managed your staff from a distance. Read More Shark Tank: Outta here Flashback to the early 1990s, when this pilot fish is working for a medical software company whose product backs up its data onto floppy disks -- and not all users call support before trying to fix problems themselves. Read More
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