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	Richi Jennings: OPPO N1 release date: Tuesday-week for 'revolutionary' phablet And we now know the price in the U.S. and Europe. OPPO announces availability of N1 phablet outside China: It'll be officially released next week. Apart from the pocket-busting size, what sets the N1 apart from identikit Android phones is the rotating camera. Finally, hipsters can take high-quality selfies (before destroying them with stupid Instagrammyness). It also comes with a rear trackpad and CyanogenMod as an option. But it's got no LTE, has a slow-ish processor, and is a relatively unknown brand. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate the pros and cons. Read More   WHITE PAPER: VCE The Sky's the Limit for Eclipse Aerospace and VCE Learn how Eclipse was able to virtualize the entire data center without any business disruption, dramatically reduce IT infrastructure hardware costs and easily migrate SAP business applications, Siemens Teamcenter and NX CAD server software. Learn More In this Issue Jonny Evans: iPhone 5C: a great Christmas present for Android users Darlene Storm: Time's Person of the Year poll hacked AGAIN, Edward Snowden losing to Miley Cyrus? Antone Gonsalves: Why mobile app developers need lessons in security Michael Horowitz: Even The Tech Guy can't explain Windows tablets Preston Gralla: Why is Microsoft so scared of Chromebooks? Antone Gonsalves: Bargains trump security worries for mobile shoppers on Thanksgiving, Black Friday Robert L. Mitchell: Road test part III: Google+ Hangouts Nick Millman: Data visualization: A picture is worth billions of bytes Sharky: Munch munch munch Sharky: Principles Sharky: Pretty sure it was the threat WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com   5 Steps to Better Sales Performance: How to Coach Your Team In 5 Steps to Better Sales Performance we reveal the proven methods the best sales managers rely on to close the sales performance gap between average performers and All-Stars. Download now. Read now! Jonny Evans: iPhone 5C: a great Christmas present for Android users Apple's iPhone 5C may not have been the low-cost phone many had predicted, but the new device casts its own special magic: it has become THE iPhone for Android switchers. Read More   Darlene Storm: Time's Person of the Year poll hacked AGAIN, Edward Snowden losing to Miley Cyrus?   During 2013, who most influenced the news for better or for worse? Although Edward Snowden seems like the most obvious choice, Time's Person of Year poll has Miley Cyrus in the top spot because hackers have cracked the online voting system . . . again. Read More   Antone Gonsalves: Why mobile app developers need lessons in security An analysis of a couple of thousand iOS apps shows security isn't even an afterthought during the development process. Read More   Michael Horowitz: Even The Tech Guy can't explain Windows tablets This past Sunday, Leo Laporte was about to say nice things about the Nokia 2520 tablet, but first he tried to explain what it was. It didn't go well. If you are buying a tablet this holiday season, this is a worthwhile read. Read More   Preston Gralla: Why is Microsoft so scared of Chromebooks? Microsoft is hitting at Chromebooks hard, with an ad featuring the heroes of the reality show "Pawn Stars" trashing the devices, and saying that a Chromebook is "not a real laptop." Microsoft wouldn't spend this much time and money on this if it wasn't worried. Why is Microsoft so scared of Chromebooks? Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Best Practices to Make BYOD Simple and Secure This white paper presents practical guidance and best practices to develop a policy including mobile device management, desktop virtualization and secure file sharing to leverage the full power of consumerization. Download the white paper. View Now Antone Gonsalves: Bargains trump security worries for mobile shoppers on Thanksgiving, Black Friday   Early Christmas shoppers show no fear with security in grabbing bargains from a tablet or smartphone. Read More   Robert L. Mitchell: Road test part III: Google+ Hangouts Imagine going abroad and relying on Google+ Hangouts as your only technology for calling home. Would it work? I recently spent 10-days in the U.K. with a phone with no cell service, relying instead on a handful of mobile communication apps running over Wi-Fi, including Hangouts. Here's how I fared. Read More   Nick Millman: Data visualization: A picture is worth billions of bytes Data visualizations – visual renderings of data sets - have changed the way information is communicated in corporate contexts for good. The products of necessity in a time-poor, information-rich age, visualizations take the hard work out of interpreting dense data. They're picking out the critical information and putting it in front of the audience's eyes. Read More   Sharky: Munch munch munch Pilot fish is co-managing a call center for a university when he answers a call from one very distraught professor who can't get to his research on the local servers -- and the usual troubleshooting can't pinpoint the problem. Read More   Sharky: Principles Pilot fish working for an Internet provider handles an onsite service call about a wireless router that won't route. The problem is simple: The customer threw out the power supply. The solution? Not so simple. Read More   Sharky: Pretty sure it was the threat IT contractor pilot fish starts work at a client site with tight security, and as an outsider, he finds relations with the company IT staff difficult -- and that's the nice way of describing it. Read More
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