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	IT Blogwatch: Spyware rootkit in many phones -- iPhone included Disturbing facts continue to emerge about the spyware/rootkit that comes as standard with many smartphones today -- perhaps most of them. The pre-installed Carrier IQ software is hidden, and can't be disabled by most users. In IT Blogwatch, boggling bloggers say rabbits; white rabbits. Read More WEBCAST: HP Scale-Up HP ProLiant & Intel Xeon Platform – Episode 3 The 20-year strategic alliance between HP and SAP enables the HANA appliance to be optimized for superior performance and reliability. With a sophisticated network of service and support, HP is the #1 platform for SAP. See how SAP HANA takes advantage of the Intel Xeon architecture to exceed performance expectations by 10x. Learn more In this Issue JR Raphael: Hands on: Asus Transformer Prime -- the world's first quad-core tablet Preston Gralla: Four reasons Microsoft shouldn't buy part of Yahoo Darlene Storm: Smartphone pocket spy tracking by drug cartels at Mexican border war zone? Richi Jennings: Stupid idea: Ban email at huge IT company (Atos) Ben Golub: Why Thomas Jefferson could predict the next big thing in storage Patrick Thibodeau: FCC unravels AT&T's job saving claims Christopher O'Malley: Imitation is the sincerest form of MSP flattery The Agile Business: Configuring your organization for innovation: More than smart people and cool platforms Shark Tank: You'll never get promoted to shipping guy that way WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Click to Continue JR Raphael: Hands on: Asus Transformer Prime -- the world's first quad-core tablet Asus's Transformer Prime is sleek, sexy, and more powerful than any other tablet to date. So what's it like to actually use? Here are my first impressions. Read More Preston Gralla: Four reasons Microsoft shouldn't buy part of Yahoo Reports say that Microsoft is part of a consortium bidding to buy a minority stake in Yahoo. Making the deal would only hurt Microsoft. Here are four reasons it should stay away. Read More Darlene Storm: Smartphone pocket spy tracking by drug cartels at Mexican border war zone? Michael Yon travels with U.S. combat troops overseas and has learned much about smartphones as pocket spies with actionable intelligence that is trackable and could mean life or death. Yon may start to report from a new war zone, the Mexican border which he believes may pose a greater threat to the USA than Afghanistan. Yet instead of al Qaeda trying to use actionable intelligence from mobile phones, Yon might face smartphone tracking threats from drug cartels. Read More Richi Jennings: Stupid idea: Ban email at huge IT company (Atos) Atos (formerly Atos Origin) has announced that it's abandoning its use of email. Seriously? A $13 billion company that operates in 42 countries is going to stop using email? That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard. I'll tell you why, in The Long View... INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More WHITE PAPER: FileMaker Quickly Deliver Business Data to iPads and iPhones Challenged by the explosion of iPad and iPhone users expecting access to corporate data? FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple, offers a middleware bridge that helps developers quickly provide on-demand access to corporate data in formatted reports and charts while giving IT the control it needs to manage and secure mobile data delivery. Read now! Ben Golub: Why Thomas Jefferson could predict the next big thing in storage In 1814, Thomas Jefferson donated the contents of his vast personal library of books and correspondence to form the foundation of the Library of Congress. Some 200 years later, that library is one of the largest in the world. Yet, the text of all of its contents could fit on a stack of DVDs that would reach to the top of a two-story building. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: FCC unravels AT&T's job saving claims FCC finds merger won't defy gravity and create jobs. Read More Christopher O'Malley: Imitation is the sincerest form of MSP flattery The growth in the managed service provider (MSP) segment has been frenetic, as enterprises increasingly rely on outside help. At the same time, enterprise IT itself is starting to look more and more like an MSP. Today MSPs and IT are developing healthy and profitable partnerships. In the process, IT is learning a lot from the MSP model, and often winds up establishing its own internal equivalent of the model. Read More The Agile Business: Configuring your organization for innovation: More than smart people and cool platforms Innovation, that supposed wellspring of economic performance, is becoming more of a business buzzword by the hour. However, staffing your company with the best and brightest won't ensure a pipeline of innovation. Read More Shark Tank: You'll never get promoted to shipping guy that way This pilot fish is hired as a production assistant at an outfit that designs semiconductors, but his bosses learn he "knows about computers," and soon he's the IT guy -- but only for desktop computers, not the engineers' workstations. Read More
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