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	Jonny Evans: Opinion: Why Apps devs choose Apple's iPhone 5 Developers, developers, developers: you're going to make more money building apps for Apple and iOS than you'll gather building for Android, fresh research claims. Read More WHITE PAPER: Autonomy, an HP company Why Cloud and How to Choose a Cloud Vendor The demand for data storage is exploding, which is driving up costs, amplifying the risks of data loss or exposure, and complicating plans for disaster recovery. To cope with this exploding demand, organizations are turning to cloud-based storage for relief. Read Now! In this Issue IT Blogwatch: SOPA hearing: Bi-partisan political FAIL Preston Gralla: Three reasons Microsoft won't buy Nokia -- and three reasons it might JR Raphael: Verizon Galaxy Nexus: Hands-on impressions Ben Golub: Taxis, Zipcars and cloud storage The Agile Business: Four tips to thrive as 2012 brings the "singularity" of biz tech JR Raphael: Oops! Signs of Google 'dogfooding' visible on Verizon Galaxy Nexus Jonny Evans: Apple iPad to play with Fire; Samsung keeps A5 JR Raphael: Bye-bye, bloatware: Disable system apps in Android Ice Cream Sandwich Shark Tank: Oh sure, do it the easy way! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More IT Blogwatch: SOPA hearing: Bi-partisan political FAIL The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearing by the House Judiciary Committee did not go well for those who fear it gives censorship power to big businesses. Many lawmakers demonstrated their ignorance of the Internet, while rejecting calls for expert assistance. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers follow the money. Not to mention: Vader conducts Christmas Choir Flash Mob ... Read More Preston Gralla: Three reasons Microsoft won't buy Nokia -- and three reasons it might The rumor mill is again working overtime about Microsoft buying Nokia, this time from a Finnish news organization which reports that Denmark's largest bank, Danske Bank, predicts that Microsoft will buy the phone maker in 2012. I don't think it's likely to happen, but it's certainly possible. Here are three reasons Nokia won't buy Nokia -- and three reasons it might. Read More JR Raphael: Verizon Galaxy Nexus: Hands-on impressions Verizon's Galaxy Nexus is similar to the international model I reviewed last month, but it does sport a few noteworthy differences. Read More Ben Golub: Taxis, Zipcars and cloud storage As a kid, when I was being carpooled to soccer practice, I got into a heated discussion with my friends regarding the kind of car we would be driving as adults when we took our kids to soccer practice. Impassioned arguments were made on behalf of flying cars, car-boat hybrids, and personal jetpacks; I suspect we would have been disappointed to learn that the vast majority of us would be driving our kids to soccer in plain old SUVs -- not too far a cry from the woody station wagon we were riding in at the time of the discussion. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Building a Virtualized Data Center CIOs are wrestling with new business demands and they are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn how an AMD technology-based virtual strategy can help. Learn More! The Agile Business: Four tips to thrive as 2012 brings the "singularity" of biz tech "Singularity" theory holds that in the not-too-distant future technology surpasses human intelligence, and then progresses so fast that all bets are off. We're on the cusp of a singularity of sorts when it comes to business technology. Read More JR Raphael: Oops! Signs of Google 'dogfooding' visible on Verizon Galaxy Nexus Verizon's new Galaxy Nexus seems to have a remaining sign of Google's internal testing process, generally referred to as "dogfooding." Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPad to play with Fire; Samsung keeps A5 Apple's plan for a 7-in. iPad to take on Amazon's Kindle Fire seems to be moving along; meanwhile we learn its current generation A5 processors are being built at a multi-billion dollar factory in Texas -- by Samsung. Read More JR Raphael: Bye-bye, bloatware: Disable system apps in Android Ice Cream Sandwich Android Ice Cream Sandwich makes it easy to disable and hide preinstalled system apps. Just follow these four simple steps, and say so long to bloatware forever. Read More Shark Tank: Oh sure, do it the easy way! This IT shop has an ongoing problem with low server disk space, thanks to some poor design decisions -- and a log file that just won't stop getting bigger. Read More
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