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	Mobile devices will drive IT spending in 2013, IDC says More than half of next year's expected 5.7% increase in global IT spending will be driven by sales of smartphones, tablets and e-readers, IDC said. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Big Data, Big Innovations Think big data, and think opportunity. That is, think beyond storing and managing data, and leverage analytics to derive more value than imaginable from your business intelligence. This white paper offers a forward thinking, collaborative approach to analyzing data and changing the way you think about business. Learn More. In this Issue Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20 Elgan: I want a military smartphone Surface Pro tablet pricing starts at $899, Microsoft says Apple's iPad Mini, iPhone 5 head to China OLPC cancels XO-3 tablet, downplays need for new hardware Preston Gralla: Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro: Far too expensive to be a hit JR Raphael: The mystery of the disappearing Android developer Nokia Siemens Networks sells optical networking business Google's Nexus 7 4G: To buy or not to buy? AT&T to sell rugged flip phone with push-to-talk Dec. 14 for $100 AT&T still at bottom of Consumer Reports rankings, but boasts best 4G network Mobile browser vulnerability lets hackers steal cloud computing time Sprint to charge Nextel net users an extra $10 a month Jonny Evans: First look: Apple's pretty iTunes 11's a speed demon RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20 In the fast moving world of technology, there are perhaps few things that have proved as resistant to change as the simple SMS text message. Read More Elgan: I want a military smartphone The U.S. military wants to put smartphones in the hands of all deployed troops. Their phones are going to be better than regular smartphones, says Mike Elgan, and that's why he wants one. Read More Surface Pro tablet pricing starts at $899, Microsoft says Microsoft set pricing for its Surface Pro 10.6-in. tablet with a starting price of $899 for a 64 GB version and $999 for a 128 GB version. Read More Apple's iPad Mini, iPhone 5 head to China Apple said it will start selling the iPad Mini, fourth-generation iPad and iPhone 5 in China over the next two weeks, putting those new products on shelves in time for the January 2013 kickoff of Chinese New Year sales. Read More OLPC cancels XO-3 tablet, downplays need for new hardware One Laptop Per Child has canceled plans to release its XO-3 tablet, although technology from that project could still be used in other products, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro: Far too expensive to be a hit If Microsoft hopes to make inroads in the tablet market, it's going about it in a very odd way: Pricing its products too high to gain much market share. The latest instance is the just-announced prices for the Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet, at $899 for a 64 GB version and $999 for the 128 GB version. Read More JR Raphael: The mystery of the disappearing Android developer Why did a successful Android developer abandon his apps for more than a year -- then suddenly re-emerge? I reached out to Ander Webbs of ADWLauncher fame to find out. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors BYOD in Education This white paper can help you address the security and management of multiple devices being introduced into your network. Read on and learn how to embrace a BYOD. Read Now! 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 Google's Nexus 7 4G: To buy or not to buy? Google is selling an updated version of its Nexus 7 tablet with integrated support for HSPA+ mobile data. So what's the device like to use -- and is it worth the extra cost? Read More AT&T to sell rugged flip phone with push-to-talk Dec. 14 for $100 In a sign that the flip phone and walkie-talkie functionality are still popular with some workers, AT&T said it will sell the rugged Samsung Rugby III exclusively for $99.99 with a two-year agreement starting Dec. 14. Read More AT&T still at bottom of Consumer Reports rankings, but boasts best 4G network AT&T held onto its last place position in Consumer Reports' ranking of the four major U.S. cellphone carriers. But the company can point to one bright spot in the annual ratings published by Consumer Reports: AT&T's 4G service garnered the least complaints from customers. Read More Mobile browser vulnerability lets hackers steal cloud computing time A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them anonymously, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon. Read More Sprint to charge Nextel net users an extra $10 a month Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra $10 per month beginning Jan. 1. Read More Jonny Evans: First look: Apple's pretty iTunes 11's a speed demon Faster, slicker and prettier, iTunes 11 goes a long, long way toward shrugging off previous complaints at its performance. I'm sure more cautious users may delay installation for a few days pending the emergence of any major faults, but in the absence of any major fault reports, this is a must-have upgrade. I'm really, really pleased at how much more responsive it seems to have become. Read More
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