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	IT Blogwatch: Microsoft Office for iPad ahoy, say rumors Microsoft is said to be porting its Office suite to iOS, to run on Apple's iPad. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if the world's gone mad. Not to mention: Mall Santa Musical ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization. Learn more. In this Issue JR Raphael: Android 4.0 upgrade list: Is your device getting Ice Cream Sandwich? Darlene Storm: Pocket Spies: Smartphone actionable intelligence Preston Gralla: Late start means Windows 8 tablets will fail, warns Forrester Shark Tank: Savvy, redefined WEBCAST: SAP Empowerment with Mobile Real-Time Analytics IT managers are gearing up to rapidly deploy mobile business intelligence and empower their front-line workers. In this webcast, we'll hear from experts on the challenges and driving forces behind creating BI reports in the field, and how to successfully deploy mobile analytic tools to increase productivity with minimal operational disruptions. Learn More JR Raphael: Android 4.0 upgrade list: Is your device getting Ice Cream Sandwich? Wondering if your phone or tablet will get the Android 4.0 upgrade? Here's an exhaustive and evolving list of everything we know about Ice Cream Sandwich, broken down by device. Read More Darlene Storm: Pocket Spies: Smartphone actionable intelligence Sometimes GPS tracking via a mobile phone is beyond an invasion of privacy; it can be a matter of life or death, such as when actionable intelligence from smartphones can potentially cost lives of U.S. combat troops overseas. Michael Yon has been reporting with the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Here's an interview with Yon about the treacherous side of carrying a cell phone, when a smartphone acts like a pocket spy with geo-tracking actionable intelligence. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Government at Carahsoft ColdFusion 9: Improve Application Performance/Scalability Performance tests reveal that Adobe ColdFusion 9 software provides significant performance improvements over ColdFusion 8, delivering applications capable of processing considerably more page requests. Learn more Preston Gralla: Late start means Windows 8 tablets will fail, warns Forrester Windows 8 tablets will be so late to market that there's a good chance that they'll fail, warns a new report from Forrester. The only hope, the report concludes, is if Windows 8 tablets are much less expensive than the competition, and chockfull of compelling content. Read More Shark Tank: Savvy, redefined IT operations group gets word that a large group of users is about to be shuffled to new cubicles. But a few supervisors decide they want to help -- by handling their own moves by themselves. Read More
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