iPhone 5 release date "is" Oct 14 (but no 4S?)

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	IT Blogwatch: iPhone 5 release date "is" Oct 14 (but no 4S Apple?) Let's talk about the iPhone 5 release date. It's the moment Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fanbois everywhere are anticipating. The salivation is so palpable, you may need an umbrella. But what's this we hear that the also-rumored iPhone 4S isn't happening? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers read the rumor runes. Not to mention: Join with Nile Rodgers and Roseanne Barr on Friday to send a simple, yet powerful message ... Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations – which of itself is not a new idea – however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy. Read More! In this Issue JR Raphael: HTC Thunderbolt Gingerbread upgrade: Gentlemen, start your engines... Darlene Storm: Federal Reserve to monitor billions of convos for 'Fed', determine mood, ID bloggers Barbara Krasnoff: Samsung announces a smaller Galaxy Tab and two non-smartphones Jonny Evans: Apple confirms October 4 'talking iPhone' event Preston Gralla: Did Microsoft employees really walk out on Ballmer at Microsoft's annual meeting? JR Raphael: Amazon's 'Kindle Fire' tablet: What to expect The Agile Business: Want to roll back offshoring? Create jobs? Train our folks Shark Tank: The smartest man in... well, SOME room WHITE PAPER: Oracle Architectural Strategies for Cloud Computing Opportunities for improving IT efficiency and performance through centralization of resources have increased dramatically in the last few years with the maturation of technologies such as SOA, virtualization, grid computing, and management automation. Read now! JR Raphael: HTC Thunderbolt Gingerbread upgrade: Gentlemen, start your engines... If you've got an HTC Thunderbolt, get ready: All signs suggest Gingerbread is finally headed your way. Read More Darlene Storm: Federal Reserve to monitor billions of convos for 'Fed', determine mood, ID bloggers How often do mention the word 'Fed' online? There is about to be a new breed of Big Brother "watchers" and real-time electronic surveillance on billions of online conversations before eavesdropping on the emotion behind how the 'Fed' was used. The monitoring will include identifying and reaching out to "key bloggers" and "influencers." Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Samsung announces a smaller Galaxy Tab and two non-smartphones Samsung's announcement of its Galaxy Tab 8.9 and two new Galaxy Players may have been overshadows by rumors of Amazon's upcoming tablet, but they're still nothing to sneeze at. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple confirms October 4 'talking iPhone' event Apple has confirmed plans to hold its official iPhone launch event on October 4, where the company's CEO, Tim Cook, is expected to host a special media event at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. campus. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: A Brief Introduction Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first engineered system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimagined management simplicity. Read More Today! Preston Gralla: Did Microsoft employees really walk out on Ballmer at Microsoft's annual meeting? The blogosphere has gone into overdrive about reports that employees walked out of Ballmer's talk at the company's recent annual employee meeting. But are those reports believable --- and if they are, does it even matter? Read More JR Raphael: Amazon's 'Kindle Fire' tablet: What to expect The Amazon tablet is coming! The Amazon tablet is coming! Well, probably. Here's what we're expecting to hear at this week's Amazon news event. Read More The Agile Business: Want to roll back offshoring? Create jobs? Train our folks IT jobs are going offshore because there aren't enough qualified U.S.-based candidates. The technologies that are shaping the future of business require skills that are difficult to staff without H-1B visas. Read More Shark Tank: The smartest man in... well, SOME room This IT manager pilot fish makes his name setting up a very successful support center at his company -- and soon he finds himself on a critical sales call with the CEO. Read More
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