Microsoft Surface tablet price NOT $1,000

	Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analytics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter | JR Raphael: How to use your Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot -- for free
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	Richi Jennings: Microsoft Surface tablet price NOT $1000: Bloggers wipe egg from faces Contrary to idiotic reports, the Microsoft Surface price hasn't been set starting at $1000. Some bloggers were careful to include weasel-words such as "if" and "maybe" -- but others run headlong into a silly-season trap of their own making. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers accuse other bloggers of click-whoring -- or worse. Not to mention: Eyelash Wish Log ... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analytics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter JR Raphael: How to use your Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot -- for free Preston Gralla: Microsoft ex-employee -- Windows 8 is a "catastrophe" Darragh Delaney: Finding out what's flowing over port 80 on your network Jonny Evans: Why Samsung beating Apple could be good news for iPhone 5 Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits the obvious -- its Surface tablet may anger manufacturers, endangering Windows 8 Shark Tank: One at a time -- remember? WHITE PAPER: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analytics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter The Aurora killer made dozens of suspicious purchases prior to committing his crime. But a proactive data mining initiative that analyzed those transactions in real-time probably would not have caught him, says an expert. Here's why. Read More JR Raphael: How to use your Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot -- for free What's the secret to getting free Android hotspot functionality on any carrier? It's actually quite simple, and you don't even have to root your phone to do it. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft ex-employee -- Windows 8 is a "catastrophe" Windows 8 isn't even in final form yet, but a former Microsoft employee who is chief executive and co-founder of the Valve game publisher and platform, says that when released, it will be a "catastrophe." And that's from someone whose company's primary platform is Windows. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch File Transfer Best Practices for Business Class File Sharing Solutions Learn what's driving the need for improvements in business class file sharing & why IT needs to manage file sharing for the organization. Learn More. Darragh Delaney: Finding out what's flowing over port 80 on your network HTTP was designed as a protocol to transport requests and data between clients and web servers. Using this information, you could then lock down your firewall to only allow TCP port 80 and 443 so that other applications would be blocked. This worked okay for a while until application developers figured out ways of tunnelling their data over port 80. Read More Jonny Evans: Why Samsung beating Apple could be good news for iPhone 5 Apple haters are dancing their best happy dance today, celebrating Samsung's seizure of the biggest-selling smartphone crown even as the copycat case between the two firms takes an insanely childish turn. Enjoy it while you can, because the portents are that this victory won't last. Here's why. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits the obvious -- its Surface tablet may anger manufacturers, endangering Windows 8 Microsoft has finally admitted in a required government filing what most everyone believed all along: by manufacturing Windows 8 Surface tablets it will compete with manufacturing partners, and it could endanger the Windows 8 tablet platform.Microsoft has finally admitted in a required government filing what most everyone believed all along: by manufacturing Windows 8 Surface tablets it will compete with manufacturing partners, and it could endanger the Windows 8 tablet platform. Read More Shark Tank: One at a time -- remember? Flashback to 1999, when this electric utility is converting to a new Y2k-compliant accounting system -- which means 150 million transactions to convert for the previous five years. Read More
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