Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Uncle Sam wants iPads, and maybe Androids

Meg Whitman brings the swagger back to Hewlett-Packard | Big data helps drive math Ph.Ds to IBM

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Uncle Sam wants iPads, and maybe Androids
The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy as many as 18,000 tablet computers to serve as 'electronic flight bags,' that will replace the paper manuals and documents that air crews use today. Read More


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WEBCAST: Citrix, F5, and Radware

Control the Cloud Like You Do Your Own Infrastructure
Industry analyst Robin Layland joins Alan Murphy from F5 Networks and Greg Smith from Citrix to explore how an ADC can allow you to control your applications running in the cloud as effectively as you control them when they are running in your data center. Learn More

Meg Whitman brings the swagger back to Hewlett-Packard
After a tumultuous year for HP, new CEO Meg Whitman brought the vendor back to its roots and delivered the messages channel partners wanted to hear in her keynote at the global partner conference Wednesday: HP is proudly a hardware company first and foremost, and its primary route to market will be through the channel. Read More

Big data helps drive math Ph.Ds to IBM
Big data, and the need to analyze data that's collected from every interface and sensor imaginable, is increasing the demand for people with statistical and mathematics backgrounds. Read More

What you should expect from Windows 8
Early insights into Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 Consumer Preview should give IT a lot to chew on when the bits arrive. Read More


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Meet "Big Data" Backup Challenges
Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now

Google says IE privacy policy is impractical in modern Web
Microsoft's privacy protection feature in Internet Explorer, known as P3P, is impractical to comply with while providing modern web functionality such as cookie-based features, Google said in response to an accusation from Microsoft that Google had bypassed privacy protections in Internet Explorer. Read More

Slow smartphone? It's not the network, it's NAND flash
Bad performance can be blamed on flash memory rather than CPU or network bandwidth, a team of researchers has found. Read More

5 tips for successful mobile app development for the enterprise
The founders of Taptera, a young software company making mobile apps for BYOD in the enterprise, offer tips for developing the kinds of apps employees will want to use, and that will bring real productivity to the enterprise. Read More


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HBR: What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud
Content provided by Google This article explains the cloud and its benefits, highlights how perceived barriers and other concerns will keep many companies from taking full advantage of it, discusses the implications of various responses and will recommend actions you should take. Read now!

Unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011
The number of unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011, McAfee notes in its fourth-quarter threats report for 2011, which also looks back at annual global trends in malicious code activity. Read More

U.S. lawmakers call on FTC to investigate Google over Safari cookies
Three lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether last week's report of privacy violations of Safari users by Google violated a consent agreement the company had reached with the FTC last year. Read More

Cybersecurity bill would create costly regulations, say critics
Leaders in the U.S. Senate are trying to fast-track new cybersecurity legislation that will create costly new regulations for some businesses, some critics say. Read More



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Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox
Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7.

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