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	Microsoft runs out of $499 Surface RT for pre-orders Microsoft has exhausted its initial supply of the lowest-priced Surface RT tablet, which now is backordered by three weeks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. In this Issue Isis to roll out mobile payments on Monday Obama, Romney cite Apple, tech issues in debate Communities get social during emergencies JR Raphael: Motorola Droid Razr HD: First impressions Samsung to push out Android 4.1 to Galaxy S III smartphones in US QuickPoll: Is Microsoft's Surface tablet pricing competitive with the iPad? Google invites developers to try out Google Play console Common management console is first step in Citrix cloud plan Facebook to use 'cold storage' to deal with vast amounts of data A face in the crowd: Inside the world of fast-track data processing Calxeda joins the 64-bit ARM server chip race High bandwidth DDoS attacks are now common, researcher says Kaspersky to develop a secure OS for industrial control Citrix ShareFile upgrade allows IT department to control personal cloud-based storage GE polishes global strategy with local transformation Jonny Evans: Apple's Particle purchase hints at iPad, iPhone post-PC plans Preston Gralla: Intel's poor earnings report could spell trouble for Windows 8 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP Take your business anywhere with SAP What could a truly integrated mobile strategy do for your business? Find out with the SAP Mobile App Advisor. This friendly virtual assistant will help you zero in on the apps and background resources that can give your business the full power of enterprise mobility. Discover the full potential of taking your business mobile. Start using the SAP Mobile App Advisor now! Isis to roll out mobile payments on Monday The Isis mobile wallet network will launch Monday in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, the Isis consortium announced Wednesday, after an earlier delay in the launch. Read More Obama, Romney cite Apple, tech issues in debate Tech issues, including high-skilled jobs creation, outsourcing, manufacturing and research investment, emerged in Tuesday's presidential debate, offering contrasts between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. Read More Communities get social during emergencies If there's a brush fire or earthquake in California's Ventura County, city officials could be getting critical information from Twitter and residents could be receiving warnings on their smartphones. Read More JR Raphael: Motorola Droid Razr HD: First impressions In the market for a new phone? Motorola's latest high-end Android handset hits stores tomorrow, and let me tell you: This thing looks like a real contender. Read More Samsung to push out Android 4.1 to Galaxy S III smartphones in US Samsung Mobile said it would start rolling out Android 4.1, code-named Jelly Bean, to Galaxy S III smartphones in the U.S. Read More QuickPoll: Is Microsoft's Surface tablet pricing competitive with the iPad? Microsoft's pricing of its Surface RT tablet was called 'aggressive' by some analysts, 'mystifying' by others, even as they remained skeptical that it's low enough to make inroads on the dominant player, Apple's iPad. What do you think -- is Microsoft's Surface tablet pricing competitive with the iPad? Read More Google invites developers to try out Google Play console The console provides developers with stats about how well their apps are doing in the Play online store Read More Common management console is first step in Citrix cloud plan Citrix Systems has started to detail the future of Windows desktops and applications in its virtual environments with tech previews of Excalibur and Merlin, the first versions of its Project Avalon. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. A 3-Step Plan for Mobile Security Mobility is here, and it brings with it new productivity opportunities - and associated security risks. This paper identifies specific countermeasures and management controls that you can use to establish a mobile security strategy that encompasses both corporate and personal devices. Read Now! Facebook to use 'cold storage' to deal with vast amounts of data Facebook is rethinking the way its process for storing data to cope with the 7 petabytes of new photos uploaded to the social network every month. Read More A face in the crowd: Inside the world of fast-track data processing Imagine processing massive amounts of video data from surveillance cameras and rapidly churning out usable and reliable information on pick-pockets, drunken hooligans, criminals or even terrorists. Read More Calxeda joins the 64-bit ARM server chip race ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014. Read More High bandwidth DDoS attacks are now common, researcher says Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year, according to researchers from from DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic. Read More Kaspersky to develop a secure OS for industrial control Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system for industrial control systems, its chairman and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said. Read More Citrix ShareFile upgrade allows IT department to control personal cloud-based storage Citrix Systems is giving back to IT departments some control over personal cloud-based storage with ShareFile StorageZones, which allows user content to be stored in enterprises' own data centers, the company announced at the Synergy conference in Barcelona. Read More GE polishes global strategy with local transformation General Electric (GE), founded 125 years ago, is one of the USA's iconic corporations. The firm has 300,000 employees working in areas ranging from aviation, healthcare, transportation, financials, and energy. The firm employs about 5,000 IT staff outside the USA." Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Particle purchase hints at iPad, iPhone post-PC plans With all eyes on Apple's October 23 iPad mini and Mac announcements, it would be easy to spend too little time pondering the company's acquisition of HTML5 firm, Particle. I think it illustrates a few interesting new elements to Apple's future plans for mobile devices, apps, software and services. Read More Preston Gralla: Intel's poor earnings report could spell trouble for Windows 8 Yesterday's poor third-quarter earnings report had some hidden bad news for Microsoft: The chip company projects fourth quarter revenue down two percent from last year. And that would means poor sales of Windows 8 PCs and laptops. Read More
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