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	3 Windows 8 ultrabooks: Lightweight and powerful A crop of ultrabooks is being introduced for the new Windows 8 operating system. We examine the HP Envy TouchSmart, Sony Vaio T13 and Toshiba Portege Z935 to see how they shape up. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue Apple's iMac on the road to irrelevance Australian police warn against using Apple Maps application Toshiba develops MRAM for smartphone processors IBM advances silicon nanophotonics What's so great about Google+ Communities? IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO Guest Blogger: A broadband solution to fiscal crises Apple vs. The World: Best of Apple's legal battles Delta Air Lines publishes privacy policy, but reseacher finds a fault Cisco aims for bigger services business, more software revenue Richi Jennings: Apple Maps can KILL, say police in Australia WHITE PAPER: EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Backup and recovery has become a fundamental part of business and an essential element of information management. This white paper identifies the three big trends that are irreversibly changing how organizations must think about backup and recovery and how to transform your company's future with smarter backup. Read now. Apple's iMac on the road to irrelevance Sales of Apple's iMac, the computer often credited with saving the company, have peaked and by the end of 2014 will account for approximately 2% of the company's revenues, analysts now say. Read More Australian police warn against using Apple Maps application Australian police are warning people not to rely on Apple's new mobile mapping application after several motorists ended up in a semi-arid national park where temperatures can reach 115 degrees F and there is no water supply. Read More Toshiba develops MRAM for smartphone processors Toshiba has developed a low-power, high-speed version of MRAM memory that it says can cut power consumption in mobile CPUs by two-thirds. Read More IBM advances silicon nanophotonics IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Read More What's so great about Google+ Communities? Google has taken the social web to the next level with a new feature called Communities, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Staying Ahead of Data Protection Challenges Does your organization still yearn for an infrastructure that can handle unpredictable data growth and enable you to enhance service levels, while ensuring data protection? Learn how to completely transform your data protection processes so that your organization can accelerate transformations and make existing operations more efficient. Learn more. IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO An EMC executive said customers should have a sense of urgency about deploying IT as a service via a cloud infrastructure, but not everyone at the data storage company's user forum agreed with him. Read More Guest Blogger: A broadband solution to fiscal crises After Congress and the White House close the gap between the Democratic and Republican approaches to the "fiscal cliff," there is another gap that they need to bridge: The gap between how the worlds of technology and government approach the future. Read More Apple vs. The World: Best of Apple's legal battles Here you'll find some of the most important and influential -- as well as downright silly -- legal battles that Apple has been involved in since its founding in 1976. Read More Delta Air Lines publishes privacy policy, but reseacher finds a fault Delta Air Lines quickly published a privacy policy for its mobile application after being sued by California's attorney general, but a privacy researcher has already found a fault with it and the app. Read More Cisco aims for bigger services business, more software revenue Cisco Systems plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple Maps can KILL, say police in Australia Australian police issue a warning of potentially fatal mapping errors. Several people have had to be rescued after becoming stranded in the desert, thanks to the iOS 6 Maps app. Apple can't find enough ways to say sorry (but still won't let people use Google Maps). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers navigate around the news. [You're fired -Ed.] Read More
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