TOP STORY: The 11 hottest Windows and Android tablets unveiled at CES
While Apple's iPad is likely to remain the top selling tablet in 2011, hardware vendors like Acer, Samsung, Asus and Toshiba previewed a host of rival devices at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. All of them run Android or Windows (and, in one case, both), and most will be available within three to six months. Here's a look at 10 cool tablets displayed at CES. Read More
WHITE PAPER: Why Organizations Need LTO-5 Today (Quantum Corporation)
For years, tape storage systems have played a key role in efforts to store data for backup and retrieval, archiving, and contingency planning purposes. More recently, tape has been called on to help preserve and safeguard data to meet data retention laws and regulations. Read More | Apple, Linux welcomes you to 1998!
A lot of people are buzzing about Apple's Mac App Store, but I'm nonplussed. I've had the same features on Linux since the late '90s. Read More
Half of large organizations will increase network spending in 2011
According to the 2011 IT Spending Survey from ESG Research, 47% of large mid-market (i.e. 500-1000 employees) and enterprise (i.e. 1000 employees or more) organizations will increase spending on networking products and services in 2011. This is about the same percentage as 2010 and up from the recession doldrums of 2009 when 37% of companies planned on increasing networking spending. Read More
WHITE PAPER: Storage Virtualization isn't About Storage (IBM)
With real storage virtualization, according to the report, you can improve operational efficiency and drive down costs. And you can do this without sacrificing – or while even improving flexibility – giving you the ability to "continuously migrate" applications as a part of normal business operations. Read Now | Apple's Steve Jobs sticks with $1 salary while COO Cook nets $59.1 million
CEO Steve Jobs took his customary $1 salary in Apple's 2010 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 25, according to documents filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More
Apple: Mac App Store hit 1 million download mark in 24 hours
Apple Friday said that more than 1 million apps were downloaded from the Mac App Store on its first day. Read More
WHITE PAPER: Yankee Group: Accelerate UC Deployments (Level 3)
Unified Communications holds tremendous promise, but deployments have fallen short of the hype. This Yankee Group report analyzes the reasons behind the gap between the UC vision and deployment such as sticking with a TDM network architecture instead of IP. Yankee discusses the value of SIP trunking and offers a SIP trunking vendor checklist. Read More | Android gains ground at RIM's expense
While Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS is still the most-used smartphone platform in the United States, it's starting to hear footsteps from Google's Android. Read More
Most popular stories this week: Jan. 7
The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Jan. 7. Check out the full list. Read More
WHITE PAPER: Finding the Value in Unified Communications (Siemens)
This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More | Windows Phone 7 at CES: Hellooooo? Anyone there?
The Big News for Windows Phone 7 coming out of this week's Consumer Electronics Show was captured in a single, brief blog post at MobilityDigest: the first software update for the mobile UI will be ready in 30-60 days. For the calendarically-challenged that would be early February. Or perhaps early March. Somewhere in there. That's not much, but it was enough to trigger a spasm of vitriol in comments. Read More
Indoors: Wi-Fi or cellular?
You're probably still pawing through the many 4G, tablet, smartphone and other wireless news announcements pouring out of the Consumer Electronics Show. In light of all the latest gadgetry and mobile network speed one-upmanship, what's your indoor mobile strategy looking like? Read More
US revamps science, technology standard-setting efforts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been given new marching orders: expand work with the private sector to develop standards for a range of key technologies such as cloud computing, emergency communications and tracking, green manufacturing and high performance green building construction. NIST could also see its core science and technology budget double by 2017. Read More
Hoping for WAN Acceleration at CES on mobile phones is heartbreaking
For the last two years I have waited for CES and Interop to see if a cellular carrier will come forward with a plan to provide WAN Acceleration for mobile phones. Each year I am filled with more doubts that we will never see it as that would cost the carriers more money in bandwidth lost and not billed. Read More
Twitter pressure applied to Steve Jobs' parody account
The @ceoSteveJobs account needs to make it clearer that it is a parody, Twitter has ruled. Read More
Polar shift shuts down airport runway in Tampa
This morning I learned that the north magnetic pole is shifting toward Russia at 40 miles per year (I've seen 40 km in some reports, but let's not quibble) and that as a result the airport in Tampa, Fla. is temporarily closing a runway so it can be renumbered. Read More
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