More $99 HP TouchPads for sale; bloggers review

	Jonny Evans: The iPad wars: HP TouchPad sale burns Apple's foes | Darlene Storm: Will cyberthugs exploit Google Plus 'identity service' for spear phishing attacks?
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	IT Blogwatch: More $99 HP TouchPads for sale; bloggers review Wow! HP 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. Not to mention: Literal warning signs R us ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Fine-Tune Your IT Performance Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more! In this Issue Jonny Evans: The iPad wars: HP TouchPad sale burns Apple's foes Darlene Storm: Will cyberthugs exploit Google Plus 'identity service' for spear phishing attacks? Robert L. Mitchell: In Irene's wake: DSL chaos JR Raphael: Triple Tablet Giveaway: Win a Galaxy Tab 10.1 gift package! Jonny Evans: Opinion: The Apple v. Samsung battle is inevitable Frank Artale: Take the PaaS Shark Tank: Just a bit short that day WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Ensuring Maximum Performance on Windows 7 Systems Independent tests show that fragmentation prevention and defragmentation resulted in performance benefits significantly beyond those delivered by the native Windows 7 utility. Learn more. 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 Darlene Storm: Will cyberthugs exploit Google Plus 'identity service' for spear phishing attacks? After pseudonym bannings, Eric Schmidt admitted Google Plus is meant to be an 'identity service.' Bye-bye privacy, hello online surveillance. Does Google hope to someday issue your trusted online ID passport? But what if all that user data tempts cyberthugs for massive spear phishing attacks? Read More Robert L. Mitchell: In Irene's wake: DSL chaos Hurricane Irene kills DSL; a seemingly ill-timed "security update" keeps it from coming back. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Need for Unified Content Security This first paper, in a three-part series, provides a high-level description and summary of benefits to consider when looking at content security solutions. Learn more. JR Raphael: Triple Tablet Giveaway: Win a Galaxy Tab 10.1 gift package! We're giving away a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 along with $200 worth of tablet goodies. The question is: Are you the winner? Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: The Apple v. Samsung battle is inevitable This battle between Apple and Samsung isn't just about smartphones and tablets but concerns the very future of the consumer electronics industry in the post-PC age. 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 Shark Tank: Just a bit short that day It's half a century ago, and this pilot fish deals with 7-track tape drives -- those big reels spinning in refrigerator-sized cabinets that you see attached to computers in old movies. But something seems to be making the data unreadable. Read More
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