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	Cisco set to counter Gartner 'myths' Gartner has been on a bit of a tear for the past couple of years about the potential downsides of single-vendor networks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Cisco TechWise TV from Interop Watch the Cisco Keynote Speakers and get new design tips and best practices from our technical experts from Interop. Thursday, May 12 thousands of IT professionals will come together for the industry's leading technology event. Register now for our Vegas event! Register Now In this Issue BlackBerry PlayBook Apps: 10 Must-Have Downloads, All Free iPhone, iPad users sue Apple over location tracking database Apple's Jobs reportedly writes: 'We don't track anyone' Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products Army readies apps for Android combat devices Group offers steps for FCC to improve broadband Is IT Tracking Your Location via Smartphone? Documents reveal new Lenovo Android tablet, super-thin notebook Developers' frustration with Android growing, survey finds Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know? WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel Xeon Processors Improving Power and Cooling Efficiency in the Datacenter Read this IDC technical brief to learn how HP Thermal Logic represents a step forward in thinking about and managing the energy consumption of today's datacenter. Read now BlackBerry PlayBook Apps: 10 Must-Have Downloads, All Free Quality apps for RIM's new tablet are few and far between right now, but they do exist. CIO.com's Al Sacco recommends 10 great PlayBook apps currently available and worthy of your attention. Read More iPhone, iPad users sue Apple over location tracking database Two Apple customers are suing the company over its iOS location tracking database, charging the data collection violates the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Read More Apple's Jobs reportedly writes: 'We don't track anyone' Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly responds to iPhone data location issue by writing: "We don't track anyone." Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Attack of the PDF Documents The PDF standard now supports JavaScript, along with tighter connections into user systems from the Adobe Reader program. This makes it very easy for virus writers to utilize scripting within PDF documents and security holes in the Reader software to load malware code and deliver this code onto computers. Read more Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products We asked, and IT pros answered. Their favorite IT products keep people productive and enterprise assets safe. Check out the list. Read More Army readies apps for Android combat devices The U.S. Army is finalizing a software framework for Android-based devices that will let third-party software developers create interoperable mobile apps for combat soldiers. It's already being tested by the 82nd Airborne Division on a prototype device, dubbed the Joint Battle Command-Platform, or JBC-P Handheld. Read More Group offers steps for FCC to improve broadband An advisory committee recommends new steps the FCC can take to improve broadband deployment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Client Health Score Solution Brief This solution brief provides an overview of Aerohive's new Client Health Score feature which cuts through volumes of data to show you the overall health of clients in an "at-a-glance" format, then enables you to drill down if you see a specific problem. Read now! Is IT Tracking Your Location via Smartphone? Let's say you scored a boondoggle to Los Angeles for a business conference, and instead sneaked off to nearby Disneyland with the family for a vacation on the corporate dime. Or maybe you simply told your boss you were meeting a client, but hit the golf links with your buddies. Read More Documents reveal new Lenovo Android tablet, super-thin notebook Documents revealed on the Web show a purported new Lenovo Android tablet for the enterprise market and a super-thin notebook with dramatically improved battery life. Read More Developers' frustration with Android growing, survey finds The latest Appcelerator/IDC mobile survey has uncovered a growing well of frustration among Android developers, with underwhelming tablets, OS fragmentation and multiple app stores cited as the main worries. Read More Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know? Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to  flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as whether Cisco will buy EMC,  how the iPad might be used at work and how to improve Ubuntu. Read More
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