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	Microsoft's Surface tablet no threat to Apple's iPad Apple has little to worry about from Microsoft's tradition-breaking move to sell its own tablets, analysts said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Evolve Customer Care with Collaboration Using collaboration technology to improve customer service gives your company an opportunity to evolve beyond traditional service models to create better customer relationships. While the telephone will always be an option, many customers want experiences where chat, social media, video and self-service are also part of the norm. Download a new white paper from ZK Research to learn how using collaboration technology can help your organization improve customer responsiveness and provide customers with self-service offerings, leading to greater loyalty. In this Issue Pricing seen as key to success of Microsoft's Surface tablets Federal complaint outlines H-1B fraud scheme Microsoft 'own worst enemy' in bold tablet move, says analyst LG puts tablet development on hold U.S. lawmakers call for online, mobile privacy legislation HP announces low-power server system with upcoming Atom chip Cisco takes social collaboration to the cloud E-health records adopted by more than 100K healthcare providers Fake Android antivirus app likely linked to Zeus banking Trojan, researchers say The Byte - Microsoft Surface, HP vs. Oracle, AR card game, Panasonic Eluga Google+ enterprise version and Flipboard integration on the way, says exec Cloud failures cost $70M-plus since 2007, researchers say China Mobile OS built to rival iPhone falls into obscurity Preston Gralla: Three ways Microsoft's Surface tablets may beat the iPad in enterprises Jonny Evans: Le Web London: Even Google uses iPad at Apple app happy show Darragh Delaney: Remote access technologies in a BYOD era Barbara Krasnoff: Microsoft's Surface tablet: The keyboard is the key WHITE PAPER: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Pricing seen as key to success of Microsoft's Surface tablets Microsoft needs to hook customers with better pricing if it wants to capture market attention with its new Surface tablets, analysts said. Read More Federal complaint outlines H-1B fraud scheme Federal investigators have ended an H-1B fraud scheme in which people in India and in the U.S. were recruited for full-time jobs that did not necessarily exist. Read More Microsoft 'own worst enemy' in bold tablet move, says analyst Microsoft's venture into selling company-designed tablets is fraught with risk, but tops on one analyst's list is the firm setting itself up as its own rival. Read More LG puts tablet development on hold Following Microsoft's announcement of the new Surface tablet, LG Electronics said it has decided to put its new tablet development on hold in order to focus on smartphones. Read More U.S. lawmakers call for online, mobile privacy legislation The U.S. Congress doesn't need to take major steps to protect the privacy of Web and mobile users, because self-policing efforts are generally working, the CEO of TRUSTe told lawmakers on Tuesday. Read More HP announces low-power server system with upcoming Atom chip Hewlett-Packard introduced a low-power server system called Gemini that will be based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor, code-named Centerton. Read More Cisco takes social collaboration to the cloud Cisco is taking enterprise social collaboration to the cloud. Read More E-health records adopted by more than 100K healthcare providers More than 100,000 health care providers are now using electronic health records that meet federal standards, according to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Get the Strategic Partner Advantage Why are infrastructure and operations personnel embracing strategic business partnership models over those that offer cheaper wares? Learn why Forrester Research, Inc. found that dual-sourcing your network may result in a low-cost, low-value infrastructure. Read Report Fake Android antivirus app likely linked to Zeus banking Trojan, researchers say A recently discovered fake Android security application is most likely a mobile component of the Zeus banking malware, security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday. Read More The Byte - Microsoft Surface, HP vs. Oracle, AR card game, Panasonic Eluga Microsoft plans to take on Apple with a tablet of its own called the Surface. Japan's Badai has made an augmented reality card based game. Syncing your phone with your oven? Now Panasonics Elgua line of phones and tablets can using RFID. Read More Google+ enterprise version and Flipboard integration on the way, says exec Google has high hopes for its Google+ social network in the enterprise, with a more corporate-friendly version on the way as the company also continues to slowly open up the API to more third parties with Flipboard the latest addition to that effort, a company executive said Tuesday at the LeWeb conference in London. Read More Cloud failures cost $70M-plus since 2007, researchers say A total of 568 hours of downtime at 13 well-known cloud services since 2007 had an economic impact of more than $71.7 million dollars, said the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) on Monday. Read More China Mobile OS built to rival iPhone falls into obscurity China Mobile's effort to support its own mobile operating system to compete with the likes of Apple's iPhone appears to be falling by the wayside, mired by its failure to attract developers and enough backing from handset manufacturers. Read More Preston Gralla: Three ways Microsoft's Surface tablets may beat the iPad in enterprises Microsoft's Surface tablets look to be well-designed, worthy competitors to the iPad. In fact, they're so good, that they may well eventually beat out the iPad in enterprises. Here are three reasons why they might do it. Read More Jonny Evans: Le Web London: Even Google uses iPad at Apple app happy show Le Web, London: The pervasive Apple [AAPL] effect is clear all across Le Web London today: from the massed ranks of MacBook models occupying the media zones to the iPad-toting Web execs marching across the venue halls to the dozens of start-ups earnestly explaining their particular brand of "fun, simple to use" app idea. Seems to me an observable fact that Cupertino's iDevices are defining the content overground. Read More Darragh Delaney: Remote access technologies in a BYOD era In my last blog post I looked at the basics of putting a BYOD policy together for your network. It focused what to do when end-users bring their own devices into the workplace and request access to the corporate network. Since I published the post, I had a number of enquiries about what options exist for when users want to use their own devices to connect to the workplace from external or home networks. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Microsoft's Surface tablet: The keyboard is the key Will the keyboard covers that come with MIcrosoft's Surface tablet finally win over those touch typists who have resisted tablets until now? Read More
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