New iPad vs. iPad 2: office faceoff

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	Sharon Machlis: New iPad vs. iPad 2: office faceoff We line up the old and new iPads side by side to see if there really is a noticeable difference between them. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue IT Blogwatch: Gmail 'splains why spam is spam Jonny Evans: Coming soon, Apple's next trick: MacBook Air, Pro upgrade looms Preston Gralla: Microsoft will have a skimpy Windows 8 tablet lineup for October launch Darlene Storm: Drones for pirates: TPB coming to a galaxy near you? Jonny Evans: Opinion: About Consumer Reports and this 'hot iPads are comfy' crisis Darragh Delaney: BitTorrent protocol primer, part 3: Detecting Healthcare IT Spotlight: Why meaningful use isn't meaningful … yet Shark Tank: Because he's always right, right? WEBCAST: Microsoft Lead the Way In the New World of Data Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 Time: 8:30am PST Join us for an expert panel discussion with Microsoft and industry leaders sharing real world solutions and reviewing the latest enterprise roadmap for business and data platform advancements. Learn More! IT Blogwatch: Gmail 'splains why spam is spam Gmail now tells you why messages in your spam folder were sent there. Google has tweaked its webmail client to display some broad categories of reasons why its spam filters filtered a message that way. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it'll make spammers better at avoiding the filters. Not to mention: Man makes fool of math-challenged wife on YouTube ... Read More Jonny Evans: Coming soon, Apple's next trick: MacBook Air, Pro upgrade looms There's a new global happening with consumers racing to the shops to pick up a new Apple iPad, which has sold more units in four days than most competing tablets sold in a year. What's will be the company's next trick as it applies itself, all systems go, to carve out psycho-geographic dominance of the new mobile age? Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft will have a skimpy Windows 8 tablet lineup for October launch When Microsoft launches Windows 8, likely some time around October, it will have only a skimpy tablet lineup -- five or fewer, according to Bloomberg. That doesn't bode well for Microsoft's hopes to eat into the iPad and Android tablet market shares. Read More Darlene Storm: Drones for pirates: TPB coming to a galaxy near you? Drones tend to imply surveillance, but what if drones were filled with servers for intergalactic pirates? The Pirate Bay will not go down without a fight and now has plans, not for cyberspace, but for outer space. TPB plans to launch drones to fight for survival and to fight censorship. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Application Security Services U.S. Public Sector Application Security Services bridge the gap between traditional application development processes and techniques, and the requisite security mechanisms needed to increase software assurance and significantly enhance system security. Read Now! Jonny Evans: Opinion: About Consumer Reports and this 'hot iPads are comfy' crisis Read all about it as the latest report from the Church of Stupid proves, albeit in a back-handed way, that Apple really is the only firm worth writing about in town, as Consumer Reports climbs aboard its Cupertino-criticism carriage to slate the new iPad for being "not uncomfortable". Read More Darragh Delaney: BitTorrent protocol primer, part 3: Detecting In my previous post on the BitTorrent protocol, I took a look at how BitTorrent operates as a very efficient way of downloading and uploading data. For this post I am going to take a look at how you can detect for its presence on a network. There are many reasons why you would want to do this, from investigating DMCA notifications to finding out where all your Internet bandwidth has gone. The three main ways in which I see BitTorrent been used. Read More Healthcare IT Spotlight: Why meaningful use isn't meaningful … yet It's one thing to define this complicated thing called meaningful use, and it's definitely another thing to get us there. But get there we will. Read More Shark Tank: Because he's always right, right? Flashback more than a few years, to when this pilot fish is working at a big bank and the IT boss is absolutely certain about, well, everything. Read More
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