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	Apple struts iPad Mini, goes premium with $329 price Apple today unveiled the iPad Mini, a smaller tablet starting at $329 that features a 7.9-in. 1024-x-768-pixel display and can run all existing iPad software without modification. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue iPad Mini will be a hit with workers, analysts predict iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire Gartner's Top 10 tech trends for 2013 Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs Cisco CEO says China will be ally Robert L. 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Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! iPad Mini will be a hit with workers, analysts predict The new 7.9-in. iPad Mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers, several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Read More iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire Wondering how Apple's iPad Mini stacks up against popular 7-inch tablets from Google and Amazon? Here's a tech spec comparison. Read More Gartner's Top 10 tech trends for 2013 The arrival of Windows 8 makes "mobile device battles" Gartner's top technology trend for next year. Read More Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs Apple announced it will be including hybrid drive technology in its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, which will offer flash-like performance with up to 3TB of hard drive capacity. Read More Cisco CEO says China will be ally Although China has been getting unwelcome attention in political circles, Cisco CEO John Chambers was far more sanguine about China at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Gartner Keynote: Cisco CEO Chambers speaks out In an engaging and wide ranging keynote session interview at the Gartner Symposium, Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers weighed in on a variety of issues, from the coming shakeout in the top six IT vendors to business to the CIO role as a stepping stone to the CEO's office. Here are 10 highlights of the conversation. Read More INSIDER For a good cloud contract, start with an RFP All the questions that you pose to vendors in a request for proposal can be the basis for the eventual contract. (Insider: Registration required) Read More Intel readies for programmable smart cars Intel researchers envision a future of driverless smart cars that can be updated at any time with the latest technology and apps. Read More WEBCAST: Cloudera Modernizing Your IT Infrastructure This webinar will speak to businesses expectations of big data, benefits of analytic platforms built on Hadoop, business challenges that led to evaluation of big data technologies, and the framework for success. View Now! Microsoft drops physical box sales of Windows 8 in China Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China and instead will only distribute the OS through downloads and pre-installs on devices, in a move that could help the company drive consumers away from pirated copies of its products. Read More Nokia offers its cheapest Windows phone with Lumia 510, without version 8 The Lumia 510 is Nokia's new entry-level Windows Phone, priced at about $199 excluding taxes and subsidies and due to be released in November. Read More Learn how to get the most from the cloud! New infrastructure-as-a-service tools make it easier to shift among multiple private and public clouds. Plus, read about new techniques and tools to increase visibility across cloud initiatives and how to cope with cloud security holes. Get this special digital edition of Computerworld. Read More Workers group accuses 'iPad Mini' supplier of labor abuses A workers' rights group has slammed what it called the "iPad Mini manufacturer" for maintaining poor working conditions at a factory in China. Read More RIM still has fans among developers and administrators Research In Motion continues to struggle as it works to finish the BlackBerry 10 operating system, but the audience at the London edition of the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour developer event still thinks the company can play an important role in the enterprise. Read More AMD's new FX chips offer more cores at lower cost Advanced Micro Devices introduced 8-core FX series chips for desktops with prices under $200 in units of 1,000, giving gamers the ability to build faster PCs at lower prices. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows 8 will mean an 'ugly' 2013 for Microsoft The Windows 8 launch will be a rocky one, leading to an "ugly" 2013 for Microsoft, warns a report from Forrester. And Microsoft's overall share of the PC-and-devices market, currently at 30%, will remain static at least until 2016, the report adds. Read More JR Raphael: Motorola Droid Razr HD, Razr Maxx HD: To buy or not to buy? With its new 2012 Razr phones, Motorola is adding some top-notch options into the Android playing field. So is the Razr HD or Razr Maxx HD the Droid you're looking for? Read More
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