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	IT Blogwatch: Windows 8 and tablets: More details and iPad 3 rivals Microsoft is revealing more details about its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. It's also opened the kimono a little wider on the "post-PC" tablet PCs that will run the OS. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hope against hope for some decent iPad 3 competition. Not to mention: The Life and Career of Steve Jobs, as imagined by those crazy Taiwanese animators, NMA ... Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! In this Issue Jonny Evans: Tim Cook's Apple CEO diary: Day One Sharon Machlis: Tracking Hurricane Irene: Map + Twitter, YouTube and Flickr Preston Gralla: Why Apple's Cook will do better than Microsoft's Ballmer --- but still won't be good enough Shark Tank: Why we love vendor tech support WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Jonny Evans: Tim Cook's Apple CEO diary: Day One "Dear diary, I'm still feeling incredibly challenged and excited at the new role I've taken here at Apple, the company I love. We're all going to miss Steve, we know he's incredible, but sometimes you must be honest with yourself: when you can't fill old shoes, you need to get new ones. We've got a busy year ahead, so I thought I'd put together a short list of what's coming, just to help focus my mind." Read More Sharon Machlis: Tracking Hurricane Irene: Map + Twitter, YouTube and Flickr Why simply plot the hurricane's path when you can also see related tweets, videos and photos? Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Securing the Social Enterprise Learn how to help your organization leverage the power of social networking without worrying about zero-day malware, inappropriate content, or the disclosure of sensitive information. Learn more. Preston Gralla: Why Apple's Cook will do better than Microsoft's Ballmer --- but still won't be good enough In taking the reins after Steve Jobs stepped down at Apple, new CEO Tim Cook has a tough act to follow. You can expect that he'll be better at it than Steve Ballmer after taking over Microsoft from Bill Gates. But it still might not be good enough. Read More Shark Tank: Why we love vendor tech support Pilot fish has a server that keeps locking up within ten minutes after he logs in, with an arcane error message that he can't decipher. It's Saturday night, it has to get fixed, fish is alone -- so he calls technical support. Read More
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