Mobile campaigns to be hot in 2012 presidential race

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	Mobile campaigns to be hot in 2012 presidential race Social networks played an important role in the last U.S. presidential election, but the explosive growth in smartphone usage and the introduction of tablets since 2008 could make or break the candidates for president in 2012. 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 Ultrabooks to get the CES spotlight, netbooks get the knife Lenovo adds new Core chips, Thunderbolt to ThinkPads LG to show new ultrabooks at CES Acer Iconia A200 tablet ships Jan. 15 for $330 The future is now: CES 2012 video sneak peek Live TV coming to Metro PCS smartphones later in 2012 Preston Gralla: Upcoming CES news: Microsoft, partners to spend hundreds of millions to market Windows Phones Barbara Krasnoff: CES thoughts: Will the ultrabook be as ultra as promised? IT Blogwatch: BlackBerry PlayBook price drop; RIM death-march continues RIM sells PlayBook tablets for $300 each Samsung upgrades Galaxy Ace with more memory, faster processor Preston Gralla: Former Windows Phone 7 general manager explains why the platform is failing -- consumers can be easily fooled JR Raphael: Here's what Samsung actually said about the Galaxy S and Ice Cream Sandwich Michael Gartenberg: 5 things I really like and dislike about Android 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 Ultrabooks to get the CES spotlight, netbooks get the knife With ultrabook announcements expected to get all the attention at next week's CES, it's important to lament the ill-fated netbook -- left for dead by a callous and capricious tech industry. Patrick Thobodeau explains. Read More Lenovo adds new Core chips, Thunderbolt to ThinkPads Lenovo announced ThinkPad laptops with cutting-edge technologies including Intel's upcoming third-generation Core processors and the Thunderbolt interconnect. Read More LG to show new ultrabooks at CES LG Electronics has introduced two new ultrabooks -- the Z330 and Z430 -- which will be on display at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. Read More Acer Iconia A200 tablet ships Jan. 15 for $330 Acer America unveiled the Iconia Tab A200, an Android-based tablet that will go on sale Jan. 15 in the U.S. starting at $329.99. Read More The future is now: CES 2012 video sneak peek Vendors show cool gadgets ahead of next week's consumer gadget-a-thon. We've got the videos. Read More Live TV coming to Metro PCS smartphones later in 2012 Metro PCS Communications customers in 14 cities will be able to watch live, local broadcast TV on their mobile phones later this year. Read More Preston Gralla: Upcoming CES news: Microsoft, partners to spend hundreds of millions to market Windows Phones Determined to make 2012 a breakout year for Windows Phones, Microsoft and its partners will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to market Windows Phone devices, including a bounty of up to $15 for every Windows Phone sold by retail sales people. So says Paul Thurrot on his blog, and those numbers wouldn't surprise me at all. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Business Analytics: The Path from Novice to Master A Computerworld survey has found improved forecasting and cost-cutting to be the top priorities for organizations deploying BA. But most organizations are not yet far along the path to BA mastery – the point at which they will be able to fully integrate BA into their business strategy and thereby reap its full benefits. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: CES thoughts: Will the ultrabook be as ultra as promised? I've been following all the speculation about the upcoming CES trade show -- naturally enough, since I and several of my Computerworld colleagues will be there next week -- and the word everyone is tossing around as this year's product to watch is the ultrabook. Read More IT Blogwatch: BlackBerry PlayBook price drop; RIM death-march continues Now the BlackBerry PlayBook gets a 50%-ish price drop, to $300! It's the latest tablet fire-sale to burn away at unsold inventory. Also, the Research In Motion board may strip Mike "the lizard" Lazaridis and Jim "ballsy" Balsillie of their co-chair titles. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the popcorn. Read More RIM sells PlayBook tablets for $300 each Research In Motion has launched yet another sale on its PlayBook tablet, selling discounted versions of the device for $300. Read More Samsung upgrades Galaxy Ace with more memory, faster processor Samsung Electronics has launched the Android-based Galaxy Ace Plus, which has more memory, a faster processor and a slightly larger screen compared to its predecessor, the company said on Thursday. Read More Preston Gralla: Former Windows Phone 7 general manager explains why the platform is failing -- consumers can be easily fooled Despite years of development and countless millions in marketing, Windows Phone 7 still has gained no traction with consumers. Charlie Kindel, former general manager of Windows Phone 7, recently blogged about why the device remains a failure -- and he says it has absolutely nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with the malleability of consumers. Read More JR Raphael: Here's what Samsung actually said about the Galaxy S and Ice Cream Sandwich Is Samsung's original Galaxy S line getting Ice Cream Sandwich or not? Enough of the "he said, she said" -- here's the answer, straight from the source. Read More Michael Gartenberg: 5 things I really like and dislike about Android Even the things I don't like speak to the flexibility of the platform. Read More
	SHARK TANK OF THE DAY So THAT'S what the PC nobody uses is for! Pilot fish's wife, the IT consultant, gets an alert at 10 p.m., and he drives with her to the client site. But when he walks in, there's a shriek of disgust. CAST YOUR VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S QUICKPOLL IT made headlines throughout 2011, from social media's role in Arab Spring to the popularity of Google's Android and Google+ and more. What was the top story of this year? NEW COMPUTERWORLD JOB BOARD Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted.
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