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	Preston Gralla: RIM may abandon BlackBerry OS and standardize on Windows Phone RIM is in such bad financial shape that it has considered abandoning its BlackBerry operating system and having new devices run Windows Phone instead. So reports Reuters. If true, it could be a big win for Microsoft. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Consolidate All of Your Event Logs in One Place for FREE! Tired of having to log on to each Windows system to see event logs? Looking for a centralized view? Organize all of your event logs from all of your Windows systems in one location with Event Log Consolidator. View, consolidate, and dismiss event logs and correlate issues among multiple Windows systems quickly and easily from one central location! Download the free Event Log Consolidator tool today! In this Issue Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 release date, feature rumor watch Jonny Evans: Apple's September iPhone 5: 'Biggest product launch in CE history'? Michael Horowitz: Wi-Fi in an apartment building Sharon Machlis: Nexus 7 Tablet & Jelly Bean: End of my Siri envy? Matt Hamblen: The iPhone and the BlackBerry Richi Jennings: iPad 3 release date in China nears: Trademark bought for $60M Robert L. Mitchell: Analytics team strategy: Don't sweat the technical skills Leigh Jasper: Pulp friction: The consumerization of mobile is doing us all a favor Shark Tank: Wait, no, that doesn't make it OK! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: 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 Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 release date, feature rumor watch Here's your iPhone 5 release date and feature rumor watch for the end of June 2012. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is expected to confound market-watchers by launching the new shiny pomaceous device earlier than expected. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers work out when, what, and why. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's September iPhone 5: 'Biggest product launch in CE history'? The Apple [AAPL] iPhone 5 "will be the biggest product launch in consumer electronics history," said analysts from Wells Fargo this week. Is this true? Will iPhone 5 truly put Samsung's Galaxy SIII "to shame"? Read More Michael Horowitz: Wi-Fi in an apartment building Wi-Fi users in apartment buildings face some issues that those in less crowded areas do not. Perhaps the most important issue is how to chose a channel when most of them are being used. There are also issues with channel bonding, and routers that want to pick their own channel. Finally, what does upgrading from G to N really offer? Read More Sharon Machlis: Nexus 7 Tablet & Jelly Bean: End of my Siri envy? The combo of Siri challenger on Android 4.1 and Nexus 7 tablet's appealing price point enticed me to do something I've never done: pre-order a mobile device before having a chance to try it -- or at least hold one. I should find out next month if it all lives up to expectations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Matt Hamblen: The iPhone and the BlackBerry A modern-day fable: How the iPhone (and others) have vanquished the BlackBerry Read More Richi Jennings: iPad 3 release date in China nears: Trademark bought for $60M Yes, China will soon be able to buy the iPad 3. The release date surely nears, as Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) finally settles its trademark dispute there. It's cost the pomaceous ones $60 million, which will be useful for cash-strapped Proview (HKG:0334). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers remember when 'iPad' was an unfortunate name. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Analytics team strategy: Don't sweat the technical skills You don't need a data scientist to get started with predictive analytics. But you do need to know some basics – and be business savvy. Read More Leigh Jasper: Pulp friction: The consumerization of mobile is doing us all a favor "The consumerization of IT" is a big buzz-phrase these days and, while it might seem over-hyped, I believe this trend has legs and it directly impacts collaboration in the workplace. Read More Shark Tank: Wait, no, that doesn't make it OK! This IT pilot fish works for a construction company, and one of his responsibilities is dealing with network problems when they crop up on construction sites, so he's the one who has to step up when one of the company's larger job sites calls in saying everything on the network is running extremely slow and it has to be fixed ASAP. Read More
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