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	Live coverage from CES 2012 See the latest live reports and photos from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy, an HP company Better Governing of Mobile Data Date: January 10th, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EST Join this live Webcast for a discussion on a unique approach to protecting and retaining data that resides on mobile devices by creating a meaning-based backup that allows organizations to apply intelligent legal hold policies against the full corpus of data. Learn more In this Issue USB 3.0 to reach smartphones, tablets by year end Ultrabooks, expected to be hot at CES, could be boon for enterprise IT Lenovo unveils new IdeaTab tablet, S2 smartphone CES 2012: What you need to know Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices Acer shows laptop with Intel's Ivy Bridge at CES Preston Gralla: Microsoft's iOS and Android app blitz bodes well for its future Microsoft scraps 'Where's my phone update?' site OLPC's XO-3 tablet to debut at CES AT&T adds 11 cities to 4G LTE network Broadcom to unveil four faster Wi-Fi chips Rockchip aims for Android 4.0 tablets under $100 Barbara Krasnoff: Consumer tech and IT: Not always a good marriage Jonny Evans: Apple's iPhone 4S sets ground for future growth Preston Gralla: Why Google, not Microsoft, should buy the Nook business from Barnes & Noble RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 4: ACCELERATE BUSINESS RESULTS WITH YOUR CLOUD. WEBINAR - JANUARY 19, 2012. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to optimize cloud economics, reshape behavior for IT-as-a-Service, and streamline cross-functional collaboration. REGISTER NOW USB 3.0 to reach smartphones, tablets by year end USB 3.0 ports will reach smartphones and tablets by the end of the year or early next year, the USB standards setting organization said Sunday. Read More Ultrabooks, expected to be hot at CES, could be boon for enterprise IT With ultrabooks poised to be the hottest devices to come out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, analysts say the new hardware should be a boon for enterprise IT shops. Read More Lenovo unveils new IdeaTab tablet, S2 smartphone Lenovo unveiled at CES the IdeaTab S2 10, a 10-in. tablet that weighs just 1.1 pounds, and latest S2 smartphone Read More CES 2012: What you need to know Computerworld coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show from Las Vegas. 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 Acer shows laptop with Intel's Ivy Bridge at CES Acer on Sunday became one of the first PC makers to show a laptop with Intel's upcoming Core processor code-named Ivy Bridge, which will deliver better application and graphics performance than current Core processors. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's iOS and Android app blitz bodes well for its future Microsoft is facing the cold fact that its own mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, has a very tiny base. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Disk v. Tape: A Look at Backup Trends in Government The U.S. Government has been the largest user of tape-based backup systems since the 1970s. Most agencies have begun to deploy disk storage and disk-based backup because of reliability and security concerns. Read more Microsoft scraps 'Where's my phone update?' site Microsoft disappointed some Windows Phone users on Friday by saying it would stop providing specifics about who will get software updates and when, and announcing vaguely that a new update is "available to all carriers that request it." Read More OLPC's XO-3 tablet to debut at CES One Laptop Per Child's XO-3 tablet is ready to ship after years in the making, and working units will be shown next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte said. Read More AT&T adds 11 cities to 4G LTE network AT&T announced Thursday it has rolled out 4G LTE services to 11 more markets, including New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Read More Broadcom to unveil four faster Wi-Fi chips The International Consumer Electronics Show may be a major launch pad for a new generation of Wi-Fi that goes about three times faster than current gear, with at least one major silicon vendor announcing and demonstrating a set of chips for the IEEE 802.11ac standard. Read More Rockchip aims for Android 4.0 tablets under $100 A company making ARM processors used in inexpensive Chinese tablets hopes to make a splash in the U.S. and Europe this year and drive down prices of Android 4.0 tablets to under $100. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Consumer tech and IT: Not always a good marriage When the security needs of a company clash with an employee's personal equipment, the result is sometimes a divorce. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iPhone 4S sets ground for future growth The iPhone 4S is the biggest-selling smartphone that's making three-in-four customers really, really happy, virtually guaranteeing Apple's future success in the smartphone industry. Competitors? Competitors really must try harder, if they care. Read More Preston Gralla: Why Google, not Microsoft, should buy the Nook business from Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble may be shopping its successful Nook business around not because the e-reader is in trouble, but because it's become such a whopping success. Two potential suitors include Google and Microsoft -- and Google is clearly the better choice. Read More
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