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	No iPhone 5 or Steve Jobs: But meet the iPhone 4S Apple's new iPhone 4S doesn't look all that different on the surface from the iPhone 4 it replaces. But the latest iPhone unveiled by Apple at a press event Tuesday promises an improved processor, new wireless system, and more powerful camera, along with voice control capabilities. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. CISCO: A New Age in Video Content Video has become essential to business collaboration. Enterprises need video technologies that enable you to create and view rich, meaningful content with ease. Join Cisco on Thursday, Oct 20 at 9am PST and learn how your network can easily capture, transform, and share live or on-demand video with an audience of thousands via any video device. Register Now! In this Issue CEO Steve Ballmer 'underpaid,' Microsoft says The new Novell (Insider Content: registration required to read this) In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles McAfee Acquires Nitro Security Microsoft zapping Zune music player IBM buys security intelligence minded Q1 Labs Bank of America says website outage unrelated to planned debit card fees Snopes.com ruins a great Steve Jobs/Sean Connery tale How To Support Cloud Applications Apple's big teases through the ages CEATEC: Robo arm gives users more power Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! CEO Steve Ballmer 'underpaid,' Microsoft says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received compensation valued at $1.38 million this year, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. His total package is up roughly 2% compared to 2010, when he received compensation valued at $1.35 million. Read More The new Novell (Insider Content: registration required to read this) Novell, which was acquired by The Attachmate Group in April, wants to regain its status as an IT icon and will try to do so by focusing its efforts on its core assets and rebuilding relationships with its huge installed base. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Novell President Bob Flynn and VP of Product Management and Marketing Eric Varness for a briefing on their rebuilding plans. Read More In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security. Read More McAfee Acquires Nitro Security I heard through the security industry grapevine that McAfee was close to buying ArcSight a few years ago but the board was reluctant to do another multi-hundred million dollar acquisition so the company passed. Clearly, McAfee knew it needed security management to round out its portfolio so it was only a matter of time until it pulled the trigger. Fast forward to October 2011. At the start of National... Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now Microsoft zapping Zune music player Microsoft, confirming one of the technology industry's worst kept secrets, is killing off its Zune music player about 5 years after its debut as a potential iPod killer. Read More IBM buys security intelligence minded Q1 Labs In a move to fortify a newly created division devoted to security systems, IBM is acquiring Q1 Labs, the company announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More Bank of America says website outage unrelated to planned debit card fees Bank of America's home page has chalked up four days in a row of intermittent access problems for which it has diagnosed the cause but won't reveal it. Read More Snopes.com ruins a great Steve Jobs/Sean Connery tale Instinctively, I knew the letter purporting to have been written by Sean Connery to Steve Jobs in 1998 -- and posted on Google+ today -- was almost certainly fictitious. In the letter, Connery explains that he has no interest in appearing in an Apple commercial and derides Jobs as being a mere "computer salesman." Snopes.com confirms that the letter isn't real, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in Government This strategy guide will explain how, by using HP's Converged Infrastructure, you can upgrade technology, standardize equipment and improve IT practices —all of which can help reduce IT costs, cut network downtime, increase productivity and improve service to constituents. Read now How To Support Cloud Applications Support organizations and Internal help desks have been supporting user applications for decades. But cloud apps make for some new twists, here are some best practices that are the cornerstones of cloud system support. Read More Apple's big teases through the ages Tomorrow's 'iPhone 5' Apple special event will be the company's 20th in 10 years ago. Relive the best of Apple's teases and see which delivered on their implications Read More CEATEC: Robo arm gives users more power The Cyberdyne system is still in the prototype phase and is aimed at helping the weak, disabled and elderly. Read More Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora. Read More
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