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	Apotheker out, Whitman in as HP CEO Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker was ousted from his position on Thursday and replaced by HP director and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, less than a year after he took the job. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Read now HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time. Read now In this Issue Q&A: 'IPad deconstructed' forum makes case for federal research Mozilla proposes 5X slower Firefox release tempo for enterprises From CIO.com: Cloud Power: How to Save Energy with Cloud Computing Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept Richi Jennings: OK, fire HP CEO Leo, but don't hire Meg Whitman! Yahoo News gets integrated with Facebook iPad's dominance in tablets to continue for years, Gartner says BlackBerry falls behind combined Android, iPhone use in workplace FTC targets mortgage and debt relief websites FCC moves toward texting, video for emergency calls Oracle, Google fail to reach settlement in Android case Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment Oracle scoops up GoAhead Software Josh Stephens: The fall TV schedule, and how it may affect your network Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes faces Facebook f8 threat JR Raphael: Android bloatware: A call for change 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. Q&A: 'IPad deconstructed' forum makes case for federal research In an effort by organizers to spark the interest of lawmakers, a closed-door U.S. Capitol forum on the future of federal research was given a provocative title: 'Deconstructing the iPad: How Federally Supported Research Leads to Game-Changing Innovation.' Read More Mozilla proposes 5X slower Firefox release tempo for enterprises Mozilla has proposed a significantly slower Firefox release pace for enterprises, the result of a corporate backlash earlier this year against an accelerated scheme that ships a new edition of the browser every six weeks. Read More From CIO.com: Cloud Power: How to Save Energy with Cloud Computing Storing, managing and extracting value from data consumes a great deal of energy, and though the increase in data and energy consumption is somewhat manageable now, at the pace it is evolving it soon won't be. The solution is in the cloud. Read More Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept Facebook has done an extreme makeover of its user profiles, redesigning the interface so that it's easy to surface not only recent updates but also years-old information, the company announced at its F8 developer conference on Thursday. Read More Richi Jennings: OK, fire HP CEO Leo, but don't hire Meg Whitman! Richi's Rant: The rumor runes say Leo Apotheker is to be replaced by Meg Whitman. That's the stupidest idea I've heard in months. Find out why, in The Long View... Insider (free registration requested) Read More Yahoo News gets integrated with Facebook The U.S. edition of Yahoo News has been linked with Facebook to make it possible for users of the two sites to share with their Facebook friends the articles they have read on the Yahoo site. Read More iPad's dominance in tablets to continue for years, Gartner says Apple created the modern tablet market, and its iPad has become the undisputed king of tablet computers. The iPad promises to hold that dominance for years to come, research firm Gartner said Thursday. Read More BlackBerry falls behind combined Android, iPhone use in workplace More workers use iPhone and Android smartphones combined than BlackBerry smartphones, according to a survey of 1,681 U.S.-based workers released by Forrester Research. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Improving Governance, Risk and Compliance Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT In this webcast you'll learn how your organization can become more responsive to financial market challenges while reassuring decision makers the accuracy of execution. Register Now FTC targets mortgage and debt relief websites The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a court to shut down websites that falsely suggested they were federal consumer assistance agencies or affiliated with government agencies focused on mortgage or debt relief, the agency said Thursday. Read More FCC moves toward texting, video for emergency calls The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday took the first step toward updating the nation's 911 emergency dialing system to receive text messages, pictures and videos, in addition to voice calls. Read More Oracle, Google fail to reach settlement in Android case Two days of face-to-face mediation talks between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page over the companies' Android mobile OS lawsuit have yet to result in a settlement, but the door is open for negotiations to continue, according to a document filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Read More Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment Teradata is adding an appliance option for its Aster analytic database, giving it another potential weapon against rivals such as Oracle's Exadata, EMC's Greenplum and SAP's HANA. Read More Oracle scoops up GoAhead Software Oracle is buying GoAhead Software, which makes products designed to help network equipment providers improve service delivery. Terms of the deal, which is expected to be completed before year's end, were not disclosed. Read More Josh Stephens: The fall TV schedule, and how it may affect your network This week the autumn 2011 TV schedule kicked off with premiers of several of my favorite shows. As usual, I was working late last night so I missed some of the premiers but I can watch them online or on my DVR. So, as I sit here in my office trying to sneak a few minutes of one of them over lunch, I got to thinking about how this could affect the corporate network... Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes faces Facebook f8 threat Apple's iTunes service has led the industry for a decade. Now the biggest music retailer, iTunes may face a new threat as Facebook moves to deliver its own partnership-based social music services at f8, a move which could give the iTunes hegemony its biggest scare yet. Read More JR Raphael: Android bloatware: A call for change The Android bloatware problem is really starting to get out of hand. Listen up, carriers: It's time to start treating your customers with respect. Read More
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