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	Microsoft's mobile ambitions ride on new Windows Phone 7 handsets The first crop of smartphones with Microsoft's overhauled Windows Phone 7 operating system are being unveiled Monday. Microsoft's future in the mobile business hinges on consumers embracing what the CEO Steve Balmer says is the "delightful" OS. Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat 5-Step RISC Migration Planning Process In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. View Now! In this Issue Arab-American student finds FBI tracking device on his car Ten gadget picks of Ceatec 2010 Zeus hackers could steal corporate secrets too Cisco bilkers get lengthy prison terms What you'll pay for in-flight Wi-Fi The compute stars align Is your future in IT a job in the boonies? 7 innovation secrets of Steve Jobs IBM to turbo-charge more servers with accelerators RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap San Francisco IT Roadmap: coming to SF on November 3! IT Roadmap returns to San Francisco on November 3rd! Prepare your enterprise for 2011 at the industry's most cost-effective and practical one-day conference, featuring up to 30 best-practice sessions with expert analysts, a private IT expo and exclusive networking. Hear executive speakers from City of San Francisco, Google, TiVo, Clorox and more! Register now to attend! Arab-American student finds FBI tracking device on his car A 20-year-old California student says a trip to an auto repair shop led to the discovery of a GPS tracking device attached to the underside of his car, and once pictures of the device were posted to the Internet, a visit from FBI agents demanding its return. Read More Ten gadget picks of Ceatec 2010 Ceatec, Japan's largest electronics show, is over for another year. We spent a week rushing around Makuhari Messe near Tokyo checking out some of the coolest, most futuristic gadgets and developments that Japan's electronics industry has to offer. Here's some of the best of what we found: Read More Zeus hackers could steal corporate secrets too Criminals who use the Zeus banking crimeware may be working on an new angle: corporate espionage. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Are you Asking the Right Questions on Storage Decisions? You can't make the best storage decisions for your business if you're not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today's IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future. Learn more! Cisco bilkers get lengthy prison terms The couple who defrauded Cisco out of $20 million are getting lengthy prison terms. Mario Easevoli, 33, and his wife Jennifer, 29, were sentence to 12 and 9 years, respectively, for duping Cisco into sending replacement parts for routers and switches, which they then sold. Read More What you'll pay for in-flight Wi-Fi Airlines have been charging fees for seats on the emergency aisle, priority boarding, and anything resembling baggage, so it's no surprise that cheap or free Wi-Fi access isn't a typical frill. But with one in three U.S. planes providing wireless Internet access, we looked at the going rates for going online in the clouds. Read More The compute stars align IBM's recent acquisition of Blade Networks is an endorsement of what Cisco has been claiming as it pushes its Unified Computing System: that integrating switching changes the blade server/cloud game. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Click to Continue Is your future in IT a job in the boonies? Struggling to find a job in IT in and around your home city or suburb? Consider a move to Jonesboro, Ark., Sebeka, Minn., or Macon, Mo. These locales might not jump out as being hotbeds of technology development or home to a large number of businesses or government agencies. But they are places where a growing number of technology workers are settling in order to find jobs in their field. Read More 7 innovation secrets of Steve Jobs In 1972, Steve Jobs left his Silicon Valley home and headed north to a small liberal arts school, Reed College, in Portland, Ore., only to drop out after one semester. Like many teenagers, the 17-year-old Jobs lacked direction. Read More IBM to turbo-charge more servers with accelerators IBM is putting more energy in building computers that mix CPUs with specialized accelerators to diversify its servers and target specific workloads, an IBM executive said this week. Read More
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