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	Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date nears: More pictures leak As the New iPhone -- or iPhone 5 -- release date gets ever closer, the inevitable feature rumors get ever stronger. Bolstered by yet more pictures of Apple's components, fanbois are in a frenzy of fanaticism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can't get enough of Apple rumors (and Apple is probably happy to silently oblige). Not to mention: Death by PowerPoint? Karaoke by Prezi! Read More WHITE PAPER: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday In this Issue Michael Horowitz: iOS upgrade failure wipes out iPad Patrick Thibodeau: Russian rock & tech revolutionaries Darlene Storm: Malware wars heat up: Shamoon steals, wipes and leaves PCs unbootable Preston Gralla: Windows RT tablets: At $300 less than Windows 8 tablets, they'll be top-level devices at bargain basement prices Shark Tank: So THAT'S why we didn't do that before! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: 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 > Michael Horowitz: iOS upgrade failure wipes out iPad Once upon a time, I owned a first generation iPad. Now, thanks to a bug in iTunes that caused an upgrade from iOS 4 to 5 to fail, all my apps and data are gone. What was an iPad is now a paper weight. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Russian rock & tech revolutionaries There is boldness, determination and steel in these women and it is admirable. But it was not surprising at all to read that one had an IT background. Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right In this live, interactive Webcast you will learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. Darlene Storm: Malware wars heat up: Shamoon steals, wipes and leaves PCs unbootable Be extra careful about opening email attachments since the new Shamoon malware can do more than corrupt, destroy or delete files; it can overwrite the master boot record and leave a computer unusable. Was this what hit Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company? Shamoon is in the wild now. The Guass malware installs a new font, so was the malware writer a typeface fan? Malware allegedly caused AC/DC's Thunderstruck to blast at maximum volume in the middle of the night from Iranian nuclear facilities. Was the malware writer a heavy metal fan? Or are these uncracked mysteries merely a sign that the malware wars heating up? Read More Preston Gralla: Windows RT tablets: At $300 less than Windows 8 tablets, they'll be top-level devices at bargain basement prices Unconfirmed reports say Microsoft's Surface Windows RT tablet will sell for S199. It's hard to know whether that's true, but Lenovo says that its Windows RT tablets will cost between $200 and $300 less than full-blown Windows 8 tablets. At that price, they should be one of the tablet world's great bargains. Read More Shark Tank: So THAT'S why we didn't do that before! It's many years ago, when this programmer pilot fish works in a data center that uses washing-machine-size disc drives -- and he comes up with a perfectly logical suggestion for managing the removable platters. Read More
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