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In this Issue Jonny Evans: The iPad wars: HP TouchPad sale burns Apple's foes Akamai employee tried to sell secrets to Israel Samsung's Galaxy S II has arrived on U.S. shores WikiLeaks cable: Apple slow to counter Chinese fakes Oracle wants HP-Hurd settlement tossed out From CIO.com: iPad Culture Shock for IT Salesforce.com revs up mobile strategy with HTML5 Cisco, NEC team up on LTE networks Java creator Gosling leaves Google for startup Court to hear arguments in warrantless wiretapping cases ScaleXtreme launches hybrid cloud management service Frank Artale: Take the PaaS IT Blogwatch: More $99 HP TouchPads for sale; bloggers review 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. Jonny Evans: The iPad wars: HP TouchPad sale burns Apple's foes If Apple's sobbing non-iPad tablet-making competitors thought things were bad already, HP's low-cost give away has made things much worse as the Christmas season price war looms. Read More Akamai employee tried to sell secrets to Israel A 43-year-old former Akamai employee has pleaded guilty to espionage charges after offering to hand over confidential information about the Web acceleration company to an agent posing as an Israeli consular official in Boston. Read More Samsung's Galaxy S II has arrived on U.S. shores The much-anticipated next generation of Galaxy S phones has finally arrived on U.S. shores. Samsung is unveiling Galaxy S II phones for AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile at an event this evening in New York. The three phones will be available later this fall, but pricing and exact release dates haven't been announced. Read More WikiLeaks cable: Apple slow to counter Chinese fakes Apple did not have a global security team, including in China, until March, 2008, when it hired employees from drug company Pfizer, to counter rampant counterfeiting of its products in China, according to a cable leaked by activist group, WikiLeaks. Read More Oracle wants HP-Hurd settlement tossed out Oracle accused Hewlett-Packard of fraud in connection with the companies' settlement agreement over the hiring of former HP CEO Mark Hurd, and wants the pact dissolved, according to a court filing Tuesday. Read More From CIO.com: iPad Culture Shock for IT The iPad is unlike any other enterprise technology, delivered to market by a vendor seemingly indifferent to CIOs, and surrounded by mass media-fed confusion. How can CIOs cope? 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Read More Java creator Gosling leaves Google for startup After just a few months at search giant, Gosling is taking a chief software architect position at Liquid Robotics Read More Court to hear arguments in warrantless wiretapping cases The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will begin hearing arguments on Wednesday on two related lawsuits involving the constitutionality and the legality of warrantless wiretaps of phone and email conversations of U.S. citizens by the government. Read More ScaleXtreme launches hybrid cloud management service Companies that have as many as 400 servers, including machines running internally as well as in public clouds, can start using a hosted management tool from ScaleXtreme, starting Tuesday. Read More Frank Artale: Take the PaaS When passionate software developers get to work in the morning (or in the middle of night) what do you think they look forward to doing? Is it: A) Looking for updates to runtimes, installing them, testing to make sure they work correctly, and then calling the operations staff to get that stuff deployed everywhere; or, B) Firing up their IDE of choice and cranking out code. Read More IT Blogwatch: More $99 HP TouchPads for sale; bloggers review Wow! HP (NYSE:HPQ) is building more TouchPad webOS tablet units. The company has shocked the tech world with this volte face, which seems to be bowing to the huge demand for the $99 bargains. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers review the situation. Read More
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