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	Focus is on smartphone, tablet screen sizes at Berlin show At next week's Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) in Berlin, smartphone makers are expected to push the boundaries of the device's screen sizes, while also launching tablets and trying to accelerate the momentum for 3D-capable products. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Is the Cloud a Performance Management Crap Shoot? To prevent unforeseen obstacles in a cloud deployment, it is important to have WAN-based measurement capabilities established before moving applications to a private or public cloud. This paper explains how to gain the visibility needed to manage performance in a cloud. Read now! In this Issue Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability Dell set to launch public cloud service Life after Jobs: Why Apple isn't doomed Elgan: How Apple will kill cable TV The iPad takes on manufacturing Sharky: What were the odds of THAT happening? JR Raphael: Why I bought a $99 HP TouchPad Up in the Air RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC conference, being held this week in Seattle. Read More Dell set to launch public cloud service Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services. Read More Life after Jobs: Why Apple isn't doomed The greatest fallacy in the story of Steve Jobs stepping down as Apple CEO, the one you'll find in endless media reports, is this: In 1985 after Steve Jobs left Apple, the company went on a downhill slide that led it to the brink of bankruptcy. Therefore, the Apple of 2011 is at risk of doing the same. Read More Elgan: How Apple will kill cable TV Columnist Mike Elgan writes that Apple is going to do to your cable TV box what it did to the audio CD: Make it go away. Read More WHITE PAPER: Rackspace Unlocking the Enterprise Cloud This whitepaper discusses the lock-in enterprises face with cloud computing and how the OpenStack open-source platform can help to eliminate that conundrum. Read More Today! The iPad takes on manufacturing iPads and other tablets are making their way into the warehouse, bringing unprecedented mobility and real-time data visibility to industrial applications. Read More Sharky: What were the odds of THAT happening? This pilot fish is a programmer trainee at a Las Vegas casino that has just hired its first IT director. And the guy just happens to be friends with the new VP of finance. How likely is it that he has any real IT background?   Read More JR Raphael: Why I bought a $99 HP TouchPad As a happy owner of a Motorola Xoom, you wouldn't think I'd be in the market for a new tablet -- but over the weekend, I found myself shelling out a hundred bucks for a discontinued and critically panned gadget. Here's why. Read More Up in the Air It was introduced in 2008 and it changed Apple's philosophy on the notebook market. It was a radical departure for Apple, getting rid of an optical drive, using a battery that users couldn't replace, offering a solid-state drive for the first time in an Apple laptop. Like many devices, it had to be seen and held to be really appreciated. Read More
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