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	Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running When seawater from Hurricane Sandy flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. This was bad news for the data center operated by Peer1 Hosting. Read More WEBCAST: Citrix Online New Technology to Your Users: A Make-or-Break Moment Live Webcast: Tuesday, November 27th at 1:00pm EST Join this live, interactive webinar to learn: - How to assess what users expect from technology - Common missteps and omissions in the QA process - What you can do to make uses feel more confident and supported - And more… Learn More In this Issue 6 USB 3.0 docking stations: Fully connect your laptop Even with prep, did Wall Street's business continuity plans fail? After Sandy, communications slowly improve Google unveils free Siri rival for iPhone, iPad Blackberry 10 devices with carriers, launch on track for Q1 2013 TI and AllGo offer reference design for a $70 Android 4.0 tablet Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents DOJ: Hearing on Megaupload stored data should be limited Richi Jennings: Build your own Apple Fusion Drive; No need to pay 3x the price WHITE PAPER: Verizon Leading the Revolution of Device Independence As employees bring their own devices to work, employers must respond with effective strategies to secure and manage a plethora of new devices containing business-critical data. A Computerworld QuickPoll survey found approximately four in 10 smartphones and tablet devices in the enterprise are owned by employees. Learn More 6 USB 3.0 docking stations: Fully connect your laptop These six docks link to your laptop via a single USB 3.0 cable to make a multitude of connections, from the mundane to the multifunction. Read More Even with prep, did Wall Street's business continuity plans fail? A report slams Wall Street for lack of foresight in preparing for a megastorm the size of Hurricane Sandy, stating that the New York Stock Exchange shut down for two days in part because it was not ready to use an all-electronic trading system during the disaster. Read More After Sandy, communications slowly improve Some wireless and wired communications services downed by Hurricane Sandy have been restored over the past 24 hours, but FCC officials said Wednesday that several serious outages remain in New York, New Jersey and other hard hit areas. Read More Google unveils free Siri rival for iPhone, iPad Google upgraded its Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad, providing a a voice search functionality that could pose a challenge to Apple's Siri. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Taking the Leap to Virtualization Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Read Now! Blackberry 10 devices with carriers, launch on track for Q1 2013 The first wave of devices running BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion's new smartphone operating system, have entered carrier certification labs around the world, the company said Wednesday. Read More TI and AllGo offer reference design for a $70 Android 4.0 tablet Texas Instruments has partnered with AllGo Embedded Systems to announce a reference design that will allow Android 4.0 tablets to be built for under $70, the companies announced. Read More Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents Apple has offered to pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit up to one dollar per device for a license to its patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Read More DOJ: Hearing on Megaupload stored data should be limited A federal judge should limit the scope of a proposed court hearing examining whether a former Megaupload user can recover files that were on the website when the U.S. Department of Justice shut it down, the agency said. Read More Richi Jennings: Build your own Apple Fusion Drive; No need to pay 3x the price Yes, with just a tiny bit of typing, you can make a DIY Fusion Drive, using a regular SSD. A Mac developer, Patrick Stein -- a/k/a jollyjinx -- wants us to know that you don't have to buy a Fusion Drive at Apple's eyewatering prices, and that you can have it on older Macs. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fire up the command line. Read More
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