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	Intel bets big on ultrabooks Intel will get a strong indication at next week's Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks is a good one -- or not. Read More 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 In this Issue Live coverage from CES 2012 NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices 2012 Predictions: Macworld's annual forecast of the year ahead Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again Lenovo Readies ThinkPad Edge Hybrids, Business Ultrabook IT Blogwatch: CES: Lenovo shows 2012 IdeaTabs beat 2010 iPad How Google and Apple will control TV Jonny Evans: Apple 2012: iPad 3 ships March, iPad 4 in October? Lenovo gets a jump on Apple in smart TVs Richi Jennings: ''Bye Nokia,'' Microsoft's gonna buy Nokia RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 3: OPTIMIZE AND AUTOMATE IT IN THE CLOUD. WEBINAR-DECEMBER 14, 2011. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the process and best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to expand automation, manage hybrid and heterogeneous environments, and update service management processes. REGISTER NOW Live coverage from CES 2012 See the latest live reports and photos from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems by 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply. Read More 2012 Predictions: Macworld's annual forecast of the year ahead At the end of every year, we take the requisite look back, and the end of 2011 was no exception—we reviewed the year in iOS, the year in Mac, Apple's financial performance, the year in quotes, and Macworld's most read and most loved and loathed stories. Read More Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices Everyone likes it when prices fall, right? But there may be a point when flash memory gets too cheap for its own good. Read More Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again Fusion-io previewed a technology on Thursday that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centers. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level Live Date and Time: November 29, 2011 - 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST By attending this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. Register Now Lenovo Readies ThinkPad Edge Hybrids, Business Ultrabook In advance of CES in Las Vegas next week, Lenovo today announced laptops targeting small and midsize businesses. Looking to combine "serious business technology and personal lifestyle computing features", Lenovo introduced the $499 B Series entry-level laptop. But it's the ThinkPad Edge S Series that's more interesting, with an ultrabook option as well as hybrid storage that combines a solid-state drive (SSD) with a hard disk. Read More IT Blogwatch: CES: Lenovo shows 2012 IdeaTabs beat 2010 iPad At CES 2012, Lenovo (HKG:0992) will show off its new IdeaTab line. The S2 improves on 2010's iPad design and the K2 on 2011's iPad 2. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder why China is getting them first. Read More How Google and Apple will control TV The future of TV is going to be pretty awesome. The addition of compute power, apps and Internet access are inevitable for TVs over the next few years and Google and Apple will be at the forefront, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple 2012: iPad 3 ships March, iPad 4 in October? The post-PC iPad will inevitably devour a huge chunk of the PC industry. This morning a report claims Apple has a plan for an advanced iPad 4 with amazing built-in apps set to ship in October this year, with an iPad 3 due in March. Read More Lenovo gets a jump on Apple in smart TVs Lenovo on Sunday announced its first smart TV that will recognize voice commands and run Android 4.0 applications, getting a jump over Apple's rumored pursuit of TVs with advanced features. Read More Richi Jennings: ''Bye Nokia,'' Microsoft's gonna buy Nokia We're told by those in the know that Microsoft is in talks to buy Nokia, or at least buy its smartphone division. The well-sourced rumor has the two sides meeting in Las Vegas this week, to thrash out a deal. Let's dissect it and see if it has legs, in The Long View INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More
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