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	Richi Jennings: First Firefox OS phones released: Geeksphone Keon and Peak Spanish phone startup taking orders worldwide. Firefox OS reaches its latest milestone, as 'developer preview' phones are now on sale. Geeksphone has two models: a low-end and a mid-range smartphone, aimed at HTML5 app developers. They're temptingly inexpensive. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dust off their credit cards. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco The Cisco Unified Workspace Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront as companies struggle with how to integrate iPads, tablets, and smartphones into their business and IT models. In response, the Cisco Unified Workspace provides a solution for creating an organization-wide mobility strategy. Learn More. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Windows Blue's Start button -- no, it won't be the real thing Jonny Evans: 'Apple is doomed' critics say as iPhone release 'delays' claimed Darlene Storm: No, you can't jam Glassholes; Google's Eric Schmidt calls for Glasses etiquette Steve Pate: Here, there, everywhere: Data residency and the public cloud Aaron Davis: Ridding ourselves of poor translations Sharky: Pretty sure that's not going to happen WEBCAST: Workday The Mobile Enterprise Today's mobile enterprise requires important data anywhere, anytime. And with mobile enterprise applications, IT needs to offer simple, easy-to-use apps that employees will embrace – without compromising security. View Now Preston Gralla: Windows Blue's Start button -- no, it won't be the real thing The Start button that Microsoft is said to be baking into Windows Blue may not be the Start button that users are clamoring for. In fact, it is said to do the exact opposite of what people want it to do, and merely bring up the Windows 8 Start screen, but not the traditional Start menu. So reports the Verge, and if true it would be a major misstep for Microsoft. Read More Jonny Evans: 'Apple is doomed' critics say as iPhone release 'delays' claimed Greetings and welcome to the new week of Apple rumor, speculation and negative spin -- and this promises to be a particularly interesting week as the company announces its financial results only to be pilloried by pundits whatever it might say. Read More Darlene Storm: No, you can't jam Glassholes; Google's Eric Schmidt calls for Glasses etiquette Google's Eric Schmidt likes the fact that you talk to Google Glass and give it verbal commands, but Glass has eye gesture controls that would allow a wink to covertly take a photo. Although Schmidt said Glass will usher in a "new social etiquette," some privacy advocates are embracing an anti-Glass culture such as banning Glass to stop the cyborgs, or using cell phone jammers. Read More WEBCAST: HOSTING How The Cloud Threatens Midsize Enterprises A recent study showed 92% of IT pros recognize that moving to the cloud provides a competitive edge, but only 20% plan to get there. The failure to close that Cloud gap poses a serious threat. Learn More Steve Pate: Here, there, everywhere: Data residency and the public cloud It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your data is? Is it nestled securely within the firewalls of your data center, or is it more adventurous, spanning the boundaries of various public clouds? Cloud adoption continues to grow at unprecedented rates, raising concerns about data privacy and also about data residency, especially for organizations considering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a public cloud. Read More Aaron Davis: Ridding ourselves of poor translations Have you ever plugged a sentence into a machine translation software and received a result that was so bad it blew your mind? Granted, there is no such thing as a perfect translation, and there's a good reason for that. By its very nature, translation is a subjective activity. Language is fluid and open for interpretation. But we can take measures to get as many translations as accurate as possible. Read More Sharky: Pretty sure that's not going to happen Pilot fish gets a call from the business office at the educational institution where he works. The user's complaint is that her computer just died, so fish begins his troubleshooting. Read More
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