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	Amazon EC2 debacle drags on into Day 2 Despite restoring service for many customers, Amazon's troubles with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service continue this morning, meaning that debate over the wisdom of relying on such cloud services is certain to grow louder. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver - April 28, 2011 IT Roadmap Denver returns April 28 to the Colorado Convention Center! Through executive keynotes, ROI workshops, technical tutorials, strategy sessions, networking opportunities and a private IT expo, attendees will gain insights into the latest IT issues, trends, challenges and solutions from top IT analysts and practitioners. Register now to attend! In this Issue How to format a hard drive iPhone 5: rounding up the rumors Anonymous: 'For once we didn't do it' Users rule in smartphone picks, but IT has a big hand in tablets Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments iPad Blows By Linux Microsoft blasts Google Docs compatibility with Word Open Source is Expensive Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers How to format a hard drive This article will show how to format a hard drive using Disk Utility, a helpful application that comes with every Mac. It's easy, and takes a few minutes. Read More iPhone 5: rounding up the rumors Here's the latest roundup of Apple iPhone 5 rumors and speculation. The basic idea: It will be better than iPhone 4. First, the next iPhone is now rumored to start production in midsummer, and to be released in September. That's according to Reuters, which cited "three people with direct knowledge of the company's supply chain." Big dilemma for us in the U.S. Buy one now with AT&T or Verizon, or wait until September (and pray the latest rumor is right about the timing)? Read More Anonymous: 'For once we didn't do it' Anonymous -- the group credited with taking down security vendor HBGary Federal and defending WikiLeaks by attacking websites of its perceived enemies -- says it has nothing to do with the network trouble crippling Sony's PlayStation site, despite having declared a cyber jihad against the company. Read More WEBCAST: Dell - Intel Manage & Integrate Mobile Devices Employees armed with company paid or personal mobile devices have measureable productivity advantages. Yet the proliferation of mobile devices present management and integration challenges to IT leaders. How can they overcome them? Learn More Users rule in smartphone picks, but IT has a big hand in tablets Enterprise survey shows iOS rules but not for long, and IT expresses interest in WebOS Read More Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments Contention and biases among technology and business factions can derail the deployment of unified communications systems that are efficient, cost-effective and simple enough to use so they actually get adopted by end users, according to a Forrester Research study. Read More iPad Blows By Linux While the Linux community keeps proclaiming the next year as the "year of the Linux desktop", the iPad from Apple has now blown pass Linux on the desktop in terms of market share. That is pretty stunning that in about 2 years the iPad has managed to surpass Linux which has been trying to capture the desktop for all of these years.  The stats come from over 3 million web surfers as measured by StatCounter.... Read More WEBCAST: IBM Solving the Top 4 Network Management Challenges Join us for this webinar, featuring Jim Frey, Research Director from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Heath Newburn, Program Director from IBM as they discuss Netcool's flexible solutions for a complex and dynamic IT environment. Learn More Microsoft blasts Google Docs compatibility with Word If there's one major disadvantage Google has in the documents war against Microsoft, it's that Microsoft products are so widely used that Google has to offer near-perfect compatibility with Microsoft Word when it comes to maintaining the format of documents moved from Word to Docs. Read More Open Source is Expensive This week's blog post relates to an area we often dismiss with open source software, money. In fact, the most common thought on money and open source is "hey, it's free and works." The reality is of course more complicated and I argue that open source is very expensive for the organizations running a project and sometimes they might not even consider all the costs when considering a new open... Read More Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers Financial services firms are beginning to use social networking sites to promote services to corporate customers, set up private online forums and monitor what customers say about them. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a 5-day Microsoft Licensing Tricks class teaching negotiation tips; a Polycom system. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of Cisco Unity books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 13 cool features of Office 365 Microsoft released the official beta version of Office 365 today, but we've been playing with it for a while now. Here are 13 cool features of the cloud-based service that combines Office, SharePoint, Lync and Exchange. MOST-READ STORIES Asia out of IPv4 addresses Four things RIM's PlayBook got wrong Six Windows 7 nightmares (and how to fix them) Computer factories eat more energy than the devices they build Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls OpenFlow opens new doors for networks Red Hat becomes cloud service provider 10 must-have utilities for small networks Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right' Did you hear about the hacker who stole the open source code?
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