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	Smart buildings get smarter Thanks to integrated architectures, IT-driven building designs are minimizing energy consumption while optimizing operations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon.com File Storage Costs Less in the Cloud Than In-House The Forrester Research report will break down the capital, operational, and staffing cost differences between internal and cloud storage by modeling a common workload - file storage - built and deployed traditionally versus consumed through the public cloud. Learn More! In this Issue '2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts Rights groups wary as ISPs roll out Copyright Alert System Jonny Evans: iPad Mini: Live Blog US government agency drops BlackBerry in favor of iPhone Vivo Tab RT tablet priced higher than Microsoft, Dell Mobile wallet adoption could get boost from deadline on retailers to upgrade terminals Mayer vows improvements across the board at Yahoo Update: Tablet trade-ins spike as 'iPad Mini' event nears Office Web Apps upgrade offers better iPad experience Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk FTC: Companies should limit facial recognition in some cases Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others 7 apps making the most of HTML5 Learn how to get the most from the cloud! Richi Jennings: iPad Mini launch today: All you need to know is here... RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial '2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilize a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for 'personal devices, 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said today. Read More Rights groups wary as ISPs roll out Copyright Alert System Privacy advocates and consumer rights groups are keeping a wary eye on a new copyright enforcement mechanism set to be rolled out by major Internet Service Providers. Read More Jonny Evans: iPad Mini: Live Blog Join us for the Apple Event, Tuesday, October 23. Read More US government agency drops BlackBerry in favor of iPhone Over 17,600 users in U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) are being moved from their BlackBerry devices to Apple's iPhone, after it was found that technology from Research In Motion cannot meet the mobile technology needs of the agency, according to contract documents. Read More Vivo Tab RT tablet priced higher than Microsoft, Dell Asustek is shipping its upcoming Vivo Tab RT tablet starting at $599, which will cost more than Windows RT tablets from Microsoft and Dell, which have an entry price of $499. Read More Mobile wallet adoption could get boost from deadline on retailers to upgrade terminals Mobile payment systems could get a boost from a 2015 deadline that credit card companies are imposing on retailers to upgrade their point-of-sale terminals. Read More Mayer vows improvements across the board at Yahoo Marissa Mayer, participating in her first Yahoo earnings conference call since becoming CEO, outlined a broad range of areas in which the company needs to improve. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. Update: Tablet trade-ins spike as 'iPad Mini' event nears Even before Apple sent invitations for the Tuesday launch event where it will likely unveil a smaller iPad, consumers were unloading their old tablets so they can trade up to Apple's latest, according to gadget buy-back firm Gazelle. Read More Office Web Apps upgrade offers better iPad experience An upgrade of Microsoft's Office Web Apps has been finalized, and a combination of enhancements makes this Web-hosted Office version work much better on iPads than previous iterations. Read More Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk Many IT organizations have neglected their help or service desks for years. But Land O'Lakes Inc. is going in a different direction, moving its help desk to ServiceNow, a cloud-based service. Read More FTC: Companies should limit facial recognition in some cases Web companies using facial recognition technology should avoid identifying anonymous images of consumers to someone who could not otherwise identify them, unless the companies have the consumers' consent, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission report said. Read More Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others Amazon Web Services confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service experienced degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. Read More 7 apps making the most of HTML5 HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript and CSS, interactive logic is a standard strategy for Web programming, and full-fledged Web apps are everywhere. All it takes is a few extra tags to rewrite the world's software as a Web page. 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 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
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