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	Inside Apple's iPad world-wide ubiquity As iPad 3 emerges, we look at the iPad as a cultural phenomenon Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud This guide offers recommendations and best practices for assembling and integrating a range of hardware and software components, such as servers, storage, virtualization software, and operating systems. Learn More! In this Issue LIVE BLOG of Apple iPad event: Check back here at 1pm EST/10am PST on Wednesday, March 7 A question for iPad holdouts Anonymous takes down security firm's website, vows to fight on after arrests Servers are refreshed with Intel's new E5 chips Apple iPad 3 din won't drown out business' Windows 8 interest Get Hadoop certified ... fast At least 1 woman should be interviewed for every IT job opening, advocacy group says SQL Server 2012 Launch - Show me the training! 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