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	Past is prototype: The evolution of the computer keyboard Here's how ergonomics, electronics and economics have contributed to the look and feel of the computer keyboard over the years. What will our fingertips type on next? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2012 IT Roadmap - Walter E. Washington Convention Center IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. will be returning to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Thursday, December 6, 2012. IT Roadmap is a regional one-day technology event that features a full-day conference program, and an exposition hall with leading technology providers. Click to continue In this Issue Use of e-voting machines unaltered despite storm-related power outages Cell site outages fall to 19% in area hit by Sandy Sharp warns it may collapse; few surprised What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability? ARM, Microsoft collaborating on 64-bit Windows version INSIDER Q&A: David Schmoock says Lenovo is doing the right thing Michael Horowitz: 'Who's on First' with Windows 8 Dell testing 64-bit ARM server with chip from AppliedMicro Amazon cites cause of recent outage, issues refunds Darlene Storm: Meet the fastest, most powerful science machine in the world: Titan supercomputer Richi Jennings: Apple's UK 'apology' may JAIL Tim Cook 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 Use of e-voting machines unaltered despite storm-related power outages Plans to use electronic voting machines in Tuesday's presidential election appear to be largely unaltered in states that were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Read More Cell site outages fall to 19% in area hit by Sandy About 19% of cell sites in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy were still out of service Thursday as recovery was slowed by other network failures and power shortages, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Read More Sharp warns it may collapse; few surprised Japan's Sharp, a major supplier of LCD displays to Apple and other manufacturers, has warned that it may not survive if it can't turn around its business, an admission that caught few off guard. Read More What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability? It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand. Read More ARM, Microsoft collaborating on 64-bit Windows version ARM is working with Microsoft to tune the Windows OS to work on processors based on ARM's 64-bit architecture, an ARM official said this week. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Bring IT Maintenance Costs Down Interviewing 7 customers across a wide range of industries, IDC found that the maintenance costs of 5-year old servers exceeded the cost to replace them and that server and storage refreshes returned an average 13-month payback - an extremely impressive 3-year ROI of 267%. Learn more INSIDER Q&A: David Schmoock says Lenovo is doing the right thing Lenovo is gobbling up market share and is now neck-and-neck with Hewlett Packard for leadership in overall PC sales. For our CEO Interview Series, Chief Content Officer John Gallant talked with David Schmoock, president of Lenovo in North America. Read More Michael Horowitz: 'Who's on First' with Windows 8 I love the Abbott and Costello bit "Who's on First" but hadn't thought of it in years. That is, until I read David Pogue's review of Windows 8 in the New York Times. Read More Dell testing 64-bit ARM server with chip from AppliedMicro Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Read More Amazon cites cause of recent outage, issues refunds An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers, which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites, according to a post-mortem issued by Amazon. Read More Darlene Storm: Meet the fastest, most powerful science machine in the world: Titan supercomputer Ah, even better than a new car smell, the sexy smell of a new supercomputer is in the air of Tennessee thanks to the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Meet Titan, the $100 million hybrid CPU and GPU supercomputer that is about the size of a basketball court. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple's UK 'apology' may JAIL Tim Cook The UK Court of Appeal is deeply unhappy with Apple. It says the company hasn't complied with the court's order. One of the judges said he was ''at a loss,'' which is British English for total incredulity. Legal experts are predicting that company officers could be thrown in jail if Apple doesn't back down. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the popcorn. Read More
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