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	Jonny Evans: iPad Mini: Live Blog Expectation of the new iPad mini is high. Will it indeed cost from $249? Is Apple preparing to cannibalize the iPod touch market in favor of remaining king of the tablet jungle? Will it have a Retina Display and does Apple plan to introduce lovely new iBookstore elements within the next version of iTunes? And what's this about a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display? We'll be here bringing you the answers to these -- and any other -- questions during the Apple keynote. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Rescue: Remote Support for PCs and mobile devices. Rescue lets you remotely connect, troubleshoot and repair PCs and todays' most popular smartphones. With Rescue, IT can instantly connect, diagnose and solve. This enables IT to do more, and spend time on the tough IT cases. Do more and improve customer satisfaction and outcomes. Find out what IT knows. Do More. Try Rescue today In this Issue Richi Jennings: iPad Mini launch today: All you need to know is here... Preston Gralla: User interface guru: With Windows 8, Microsoft throws users "under the bus" Robert L. Mitchell: Gartner Symposium roundup: 10 predictions Peter Eicher: How big is your big data? Jonny Evans: Samsung dumps Apple display manufacture as iPad mini launch looms Sharky: Just like it says right here 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! Richi Jennings: iPad Mini launch today: All you need to know is here... The new iPad Mini will get its launch today. Although Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is playing its usual silent game, we know plenty about the 7.85-inch device, including its features and price range. Richi rounds it up for you. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the latest BYOD-worthy, pomaceous shiny. Read More Preston Gralla: User interface guru: With Windows 8, Microsoft throws users "under the bus" Plenty of people have complained about Windows 8's interface, which is targeted more at tablets than traditional PCs. And now well-known interface guru Jakob Nielsen has charged that users of traditional PCs are "essentially being thrown under the bus" by Microsoft with the new design. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Gartner Symposium roundup: 10 predictions If this week's Gartner Symposium is any indicator, IT is on a roll. Attendance is up this year, with more than 8,400 attendees, according to research firm Gartner Inc., which hosts the event. The conference itself has been gradually morphing into more of a CIO event, with two time slots dedicated to CIO topics today. Much of the content is slanted toward CIOs, with less of a focus on more technical content than there was just a few years ago. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. Peter Eicher: How big is your big data? I mentioned last time that I would be talking about snapshots and data protection. And so I shall! But snapshots cover a lot of ground, and I prefer to focus on particular aspects of them, rather than painting a high-level story that many are familiar with. But let's at least establish some groundwork. Snapshots are effective for data protection because they are fast and allow you to capture and restore data quickly. They also let you deal with very large amounts of data. In fact, they may be the only way to do so. Read More Jonny Evans: Samsung dumps Apple display manufacture as iPad mini launch looms The Samsung-versus-Apple conflict has hit a new zenith with news from Samsung that it intends terminating its years long display supply deal with the Californian firm, even as Apple [AAPL] prepares to introduce the iPad mini alongside an updated version of the existing iPad this week. Read More Sharky: Just like it says right here User calls this support pilot fish: 'I am not getting any email -- and I think it is because my Microsoft is out.' Read More
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