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	Microsoft's Surface Pro highlights flawed two-for-one strategy Microsoft's upcoming Surface Pro tablet sums up the company's seeming strategy with Windows 8: That business users can do with one device what they currently accomplish with two. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2012 Final Week to Register! IT Roadmap only comes to Washington, D.C. once a year so don't miss this opportunity to join hundreds of local colleagues who will gain a year's worth of enterprise-ready ideas, answers, best practices, and key contacts all in one day – in one place. Attend Free. IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. – 12/6 - Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Click to continue In this Issue 'I'm foolish,' fugitive anti-virus pioneer McAfee tells CNN Update: President Obama takes Twitter questions NASA rover finds complex chemicals, but no organic material Apple on track to meet 100-market target for iPhone 5 roll-out AT&T adds six more LTE cities Ericsson wants US import ban on Samsung products Kenneth Van Wyk: 'Tis the season to shop with care INSIDER Six free databases with commercial-quality features Marvell to push wireless LANs to gigabit speeds with new chipset Vatican unveils Pope's Twitter account HP upgrades converged storage portfolio Nokia Siemens Networks sells optical networking business Jonny Evans: No RAM upgrades for new iMacs? Is Apple crazy? Preston Gralla: Are Windows 8 sales as dismal as they seem? 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 'I'm foolish,' fugitive anti-virus pioneer McAfee tells CNN Fugitive anti-virus technology pioneer John McAfee, who is being sought by Belize authorities in connection with the murder of his neighbor there, described himself as a "foolish man" in an interview televised on CNN on Sunday. Read More Update: President Obama takes Twitter questions President Barack Obama took to Twitter today to try to build support for his tax plan. Read More NASA rover finds complex chemicals, but no organic material A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. Read More Apple on track to meet 100-market target for iPhone 5 roll-out Apple today said that the iPhone 5 will reach retail in South Korea on Dec. 7 and another 54 countries later this month. Read More AT&T adds six more LTE cities AT&T said Monday it has upped its LTE wireless network reach to 109 markets, by adding six cities in Puerto Rico as well as Albuquerque, N.M., Reading, Pa. and Salt Lake City Read More Ericsson wants US import ban on Samsung products Just a few days after Ericsson filed several patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung in the U.S., the Swedish mobile phone company also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking for an import ban of a wide range of Samsung products, including the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note. Read More Kenneth Van Wyk: 'Tis the season to shop with care With online holiday shopping on the rise, and mobile-device shopping coming into its own, the need to be aware of the necessary security precautions has grown. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc A Guide to Cloud Email Archiving Many companies are tackling the challenge of email archiving head-on with cloud-based solutions that scale to business growth, conform to regulatory mandates, and deliver low operational costs. We suggest a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-base storage, secure access and high availability. Read now INSIDER Six free databases with commercial-quality features Free or open source databases run hundreds of millions of public-facing and private applications worldwide, but how effective is this technology and how do these products compare? For answers, we reviewed six popular free or open source database products: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Read More Marvell to push wireless LANs to gigabit speeds with new chipset Marvell's upcoming 8864 chipset for the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard can achieve gigabit speeds thanks to multiple antennas for reception and transmission, but wireless routers and access points based on the component won't arrive until the middle of next year. Read More Vatican unveils Pope's Twitter account Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. Read More HP upgrades converged storage portfolio Hewlett-Packard Monday released three platform upgrades that include new models of its Converged Storage platform, its StoreAll data archive and StoreOnce backup appliances. Read More Nokia Siemens Networks sells optical networking business Nokia Siemens Networks is selling its optical networking business unit to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners, the latest in a series of sell-offs as the vendor concentrates on mobile broadband networks. Read More Jonny Evans: No RAM upgrades for new iMacs? Is Apple crazy? At the very least, Apple's RAM decision is a poor design decision; at the very worst it dates the company, putting it inside some 90's rose-tinted spectacle-wearing bubble that perhaps suggests it is less relevant to its time than it was before. Read More Preston Gralla: Are Windows 8 sales as dismal as they seem? New figures show that Windows 8 usage a month after launch parallels that of Windows Vista rather than Windows 7 -- one more piece of evidence that Windows 8's launch has been a poor one for Microsoft. But there's more to the figures than meets the eye. Are things really as bad as they seem for Windows 8? Read More
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