16 essential Android apps for IT pros

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	16 essential Android apps for IT pros There are hundreds of thousands of Android apps, including many that are useful for IT professionals on the job. These apps can help connect to servers, monitor computers, access databases, analyze the airwaves, scan networks, and serve as a reference. Here are 16 of these apps, most of them free. Read More WHITE PAPER: Rackspace Consideration for the Cloud This white paper discusses the IT challenges enterprises face and how the Cloud can help overcome those challenges. IT then defines different Cloud configurations and the most appropriate uses of each. Finally, it provides guidance on enterprise decision-making regarding Cloud applications and platforms. Read More! In this Issue JR Raphael: Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime rumors heating up A week with the Motorola Droid Bionic: Too much of a good thing? Jonny Evans: Apple iPad 2012: Faster, brighter, cheaper IT managers start supporting employee-owned smartphones Preston Gralla: Will Windows 8 be Windows Phone 7's savior? Google Wallet full download delayed until Friday Verizon to sell HTC Rhyme for $200 beginning Sept. 29 Apple to unveil iPhone 5 on Oct. 4, says report Verizon to launch LTE service in 21 more cities Oct. 20 Hands-on: 5 wireless keyboards for the iPad LightSquared claims solution to GPS interference LightSquared says GPS fix will cost $50-$300 WHITE PAPER: AMD Building a Virtualized Data Center CIOs are wrestling with new business demands and they are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn how an AMD technology-based virtual strategy can help. Learn More! JR Raphael: Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime rumors heating up With Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich growing closer to its release, the rumors surrounding the software are starting to fly fast. Read More A week with the Motorola Droid Bionic: Too much of a good thing? After using Motorola's Droid Bionic for a week, our reviewer enjoyed its interface and admired its performance -- but he found its short battery life a real problem. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPad 2012: Faster, brighter, cheaper Apple iPhone 5 images are appearing everywhere as we enter the final days of the long wait for the new product(s), but what of the iPad 3, can we really expect that device this year? I don't think you can, but you can expect faster, brighter, cheaper tablets as Apple prepares to crush the competition for yet another year. Read More IT managers start supporting employee-owned smartphones Despite the increasing use of smartphones at work, more than one-third of companies still don't provide any support for personal phones or outright prohibit their use at the office. Read More Preston Gralla: Will Windows 8 be Windows Phone 7's savior? There hasn't been a great deal of good news for Windows Phone 7 recently. But the Windows 8 Developer Preview holds out hope that Windows 8 may eventually be the boost the struggling smartphone operating system needs. Read More Google Wallet full download delayed until Friday Even though Google said its Google Wallet app was available Monday, it won't be installed over-the-air to all Nexus S 4G customers until Friday night. Read More 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. Verizon to sell HTC Rhyme for $200 beginning Sept. 29 Verizon Wireless will begin selling the new HTC Rhyme smartphone for $199.99 starting Sept. 29. Read More Apple to unveil iPhone 5 on Oct. 4, says report Apple will launch the next iPhone on Oct. 4, a technology blog said today, citing what it called "sources close to the situation." Read More Verizon to launch LTE service in 21 more cities Oct. 20 Verizon Wireless named 21 more cities that will get its faster LTE service starting Oct. 20. Read More Hands-on: 5 wireless keyboards for the iPad Some typists can't make do with the iPad 2's onscreen keypad. Here are 5 wireless keyboards that could make for faster, more accurate typing. Read More LightSquared claims solution to GPS interference LightSquared said it has an affordable solution to interference between its 4G network and GPS systems and will have working units available for tests planned by the U.S. government in the coming months. Read More LightSquared says GPS fix will cost $50-$300 Satellite-4G carrier LightSquared said Wednesday that gear to prevent interference between its network and precision GPS gear will cost $50 to $300 per device and it is in talks with the U.S. government about covering the cost of upgrading or replacing all federally-owned devices. Read More
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