Apple, Amazon have won the tablet wars

	A high-tech pioneer reflects on the digital revolution | Kindle Fire teardown puts build cost at less than $3 above retail price
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	Apple, Amazon have won the tablet wars People, hear me out. We're heading for the endgame in the tablet wars as major PC manufacturers declare victory to Apple while leaving the low-end market to burn in Amazon's Fire. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Integrated Management and the Private Cloud As virtualization deployments increase, so do the challenges of managing virtual environments, according to a recent Computerworld Market Pulse survey. Read More! In this Issue A high-tech pioneer reflects on the digital revolution Kindle Fire teardown puts build cost at less than $3 above retail price Amazon smartphone coming in late 2012, analyst says iSuppli drops 2011 semiconductor forecast on slow Q4 Indiana Keith and the Gift Guide of Doom Ben Golub: The beauty of little boxes, and their role in the future of storage With iPad, Apple to overtake HP as top PC vendor by mid-2012 Ultrabooks still trying to find their niche IT Blogwatch: Galaxy Nexus review roundup, LTE release date confirmed Amazon cloud management tool gets integrated status monitoring IT Blogwatch: AMD Bulldozer 16-core server CPUs "trounce" Intel Xeon WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems WAN Optimization Strategies The benefits of IT consolidation have come with a downside – dramatic bandwidth and application performance issues. Making WAN Optimization a priority will result in dramatic gains in bandwidth and performance today, and ensure an optimized network for tomorrow. This paper defines how to defend against the trends that overwhelm the WAN. Read now! A high-tech pioneer reflects on the digital revolution The man who led the design and development of the first microprocessor 40 years ago said at the time he didn't foresee the extent of the digital revolution he was helping to create. Read More Kindle Fire teardown puts build cost at less than $3 above retail price Teardown experts at IHS iSuppli found it costs Amazon $201.70 to build the new Kindle Fire, less than $3 above the $199 retail price. Read More Amazon smartphone coming in late 2012, analyst says Amazon is working on a smartphone to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a Citigroup analyst quoted by All Things D. Read More iSuppli drops 2011 semiconductor forecast on slow Q4 An industry analyst firm has lowered its forecast for the worldwide semiconductor market for this year because of declining revenue in the fourth quarter. Read More Indiana Keith and the Gift Guide of Doom Here at this link is the 2011 version of our technology holiday gift guide, Cool Yule Tools. Once again I think we've outdone ourselves. We've got somewhere between 150 and 170 reviews of different products for the technology and gadget-lover on your holiday gift list. Or you might just like to peruse the pages and online reviews yourself if you are looking for ideas to make your own wish list. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Datawatch Corporation Try Monarch Report Analytics free for 30 days! Download the 30 day Monarch trial at no cost and learn what 500,000 IT and Finance users already know, how to access data regardless of format or source. Monarch enables end users to access data that exists in static documents; including BI, ERP, PDF, green bar reports and other hard to access static data sources. Try Monarch for 30 days today! Ben Golub: The beauty of little boxes, and their role in the future of storage If you're into 1960's songs about middle class conformity, you may not have a positive association with lots of interchangeable "little boxes." In storage, however, those little boxes are not only beautiful but the wave of the future. Insider (free registration required) Read More With iPad, Apple to overtake HP as top PC vendor by mid-2012 Apple will overtake Hewlett-Packard as the world's biggest PC vendor by mid-2012 thanks largely to iPad sales, analyst firm Canalys said. Read More Ultrabooks still trying to find their niche Despite backing from the top PC makers, high prices and a disorganized software and hardware ecosystem could slow adoption of ultrabooks over the next few years, analysts said this week. Read More IT Blogwatch: Galaxy Nexus review roundup, LTE release date confirmed Here come the Galaxy Nexus reviews, and they're pretty positive. Also, we have the Galaxy Nexus release date confirmed in North America, including the LTE version. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers contribute to Richi's review roundup. Not to mention: I Believe I can Fly... Read More Amazon cloud management tool gets integrated status monitoring The Amazon Web Services (AWS) management tool will from now on tell users about upcoming scheduled operational activities that will affect the availability of its cloud, the company said in blog post on Thursday. Read More IT Blogwatch: AMD Bulldozer 16-core server CPUs "trounce" Intel Xeon AMD (NYSE:AMD) has launched its new server CPU chips, some of which offer a whopping 16 cores -- or, at least, 16 threads. The Opteron 6200-series 'Interlagos' and 4200-series 'Valencia' products are supposedly better, faster, cheaper, and/or lower-power than the Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Xeon equivalents, thanks to AMD's 'Bulldozer' architecture. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel the need... the need for speed. Read More
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