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	Power play: Wireless charging at a distance arrives Magnetic resonance wireless charging has the potential to power everything in our lives from a distance. One company, WiTricity, has developed several ways to wirelessly charge everything from smartphones to TVs, cars and solar panels. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Forrester: Business Value of Virtualization Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives. Read Now! In this Issue Storm forces Internet hubs to run on generator power JR Raphael: Google's Nexus 4: Hands-on impressions Political IT: How campaigns mine the Web - part 2 What Apple's executive reshuffle means for the products you use Microsoft goes with 'Windows 8 Store apps' as replacement for 'Metro' Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan NASA's Curiosity finds Martian soil like Hawaiian sand Nvidia to pair CPUs, graphics chips in next Tesla products Video: Build 2012: Microsoft sells four million copies of Windows 8 upgrades Q&A: Zend CEO says PHP is fit for the enterprise California notifies app developers of privacy law non-compliance China building a 100-petaflop supercomputer Splunk 5 offers fault-tolerant indexing for mission-critical applications Citrix aims to make any Windows app a cloud service Darragh Delaney: Moving to a career in IT security Kenneth van Wyk: The good and bad of Android and iOS Richi Jennings: LG/Google Nexus 4 review roundup: Amazing, but no 4G LTE, Verizon, or Sprint RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Storm forces Internet hubs to run on generator power Two monolithic buildings in lower Manhattan that serve as major network hubs for the U.S. are operating on generator power, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Read More JR Raphael: Google's Nexus 4: Hands-on impressions Ladies and gentlemen, I have in my hands Google's next Nexus phone. Ready for some first impressions? Read More Political IT: How campaigns mine the Web - part 2 Advocacy groups and political campaigns have unparalleled access to vast amounts of new and very detailed data on voters interests, hobbies, lifestyles and political leanings. Read More What Apple's executive reshuffle means for the products you use After Steve Jobs's death, many described Apple the company as his most enduring "product." This reorganization suggests that Cook has taken that to heart while simultaneously putting his own definitive stamp on it. Read More Microsoft goes with 'Windows 8 Store apps' as replacement for 'Metro' Microsoft today made it official, saying that the replacement for the now-dead-and-buried "Metro" brand for apps on Windows is "Windows 8 Store." Read More Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, according to an FCC estimate. Read More NASA's Curiosity finds Martian soil like Hawaiian sand In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. Read More Nvidia to pair CPUs, graphics chips in next Tesla products Nvidia plans to integrate CPU cores alongside graphics cores in Tesla high-performance chips, which is a change from current Tesla chips that have only graphics processors. Read More WEBCAST: GE Healthcare Enter the Cloud: How Technology Will Change Healthcare Change is coming. In fact, it's already arriving in some healthcare facilities and offers others the chance to alter the way care is delivered,expected and paid for – to the benefit of care providers and patients alike. The cloud will change everything—this webinar will show you how. Register now. Video: Build 2012: Microsoft sells four million copies of Windows 8 upgrades Microsoft reports to have sold four million Windows 8 upgrades in the first three days that the OS was available. Read More Q&A: Zend CEO says PHP is fit for the enterprise Perhaps the top promoter of PHP is Zend Technologies, which offers an application server and development tools for PHP and stresses PHP usage in enterprises. Read More California notifies app developers of privacy law non-compliance Notices will be sent out to developers of up to 100 mobile apps that are not compliant with California privacy law, starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms, the office of the state's attorney general Kamala D. Harris said Tuesday. Read More China building a 100-petaflop supercomputer As the U.S. launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops, China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. Read More Splunk 5 offers fault-tolerant indexing for mission-critical applications The new version of the Splunk machine data search engine comes with a distributed indexing technology that could save storage costs for those customers running the software as a high-availability service. Read More Citrix aims to make any Windows app a cloud service Citrix is focused on helping enterprises deal with the challenge of running desktops and applications in a new mobile-centric world where tablets and smartphones proliferate. Read More Darragh Delaney: Moving to a career in IT security Jobs within IT security are hot at the moment and recently a number of people have asked me what it takes to get into this sector. For some people IT security is a world of hackers and data leakage. For others it's a vital part of any organisation. So, what can you do to improve your skillset in this area? Read More Kenneth van Wyk: The good and bad of Android and iOS Both Google's and Apple's mobile platforms have security drawbacks and advantages. Is there a clear winner? Read More Richi Jennings: LG/Google Nexus 4 review roundup: Amazing, but no 4G LTE, Verizon, or Sprint The first Google Nexus 4 reviews are in, and they're mostly positive, saying the phone is gorgeous, feature-packed, and quick as a very quick thing. Time for another one of Richi's roundups. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder why there's no 4G LTE, nor support for Verizon/Sprint CDMA. Read More
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