Microsoft released an update for Windows Phone that fixes a number of issues. That is great, but it comes with some news that has upset many Windows Phone users. Microsoft is abandoning its efforts to keep users informed of which vendors and carriers are providing the update.
A post on the Windows Phone Blog explains, “This week we started to make a new Windows Phone update —8107—available to many Windows Phone customers. The update, available to all carriers that request it, is part of our ongoing maintenance of Windows Phone.”
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January 9, 2012 at 12:12 pm You are getting ready to leave your desk, and you know you will need to stay connected and get some work done on the go. Do you take your laptop, tablet, or smartphone? A tablet is sort of like a more portable notebook built on a mobile operating system platform, and brings some unique advantages to the table.
Here are five reasons that the tablet is a better choice for mobile computing than a laptop or smartphone:
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January 8, 2012 at 12:15 pm With a smartphone, you can connect to the Web from virtually anywhere. You can look up information, send emails, take pictures, navigate highways, and play music–often simultaneously.
Of course, even though you might technically be able to write a 20-page white paper on a smartphone, you wouldn’t want to. There are some tasks the smartphone is ideal for, and some it is just cabapable of, and a few that it just can’t do. Know its strengths and weaknesses so you can choose accordingly.
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January 8, 2012 at 12:12 am Mobile computing is a way of life. The world doesn’t stop just because you get up and leave your desk, and you need tools to stay engaged and get things done no matter where you are.
Laptops, tablets, and smartphones are each capable mobile computing devices in their own way, but each also has distinct benefits and disadvantages. If you’re heading out the door, and you only want to grab one device, which one will it be?
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January 7, 2012 at 12:13 pm Tackling ‘big data’ challenges is a growing concern for enterprises looking to mine their data stores, according to the Enterprise Strategy Group. ESG defines big data as data sets that exceed the boundaries and sizes of normal processing capabilities, forcing you to take a non-traditional approach. With big data, such data sets can range from ten to hundreds of terabytes in size.
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January 6, 2012 at 12:19 pm 
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 21
Yesterday I talked about my concerns about the security of my data if I store it in the cloud. It seems like an awful lot of faith to put in a third-party to expect it to protect my data. However, there is a flip side to that coin that suggests that maybe my data is better off in their hands than mine.
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The Cloud, Day 21: My Data Might Be Safer in the Cloud
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January 6, 2012 at 6:16 am IBM wants to take a big bite out of software development costs with the acquisition of Green Hat, a provider of software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments. The two companies say software defects cost the U.S. almost $ 60 billion annually, and testing accounts for more than half of overall development costs and upwards of a third of testing teams’ time. When the deal is complete, Green Hat will join IBM’s Rational Software business and will be offered through IBM Global Business Services’ Application Management Services (AMS), which provides strategy, design, implementation, testing and managed services for application virtualization.
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January 6, 2012 at 12:17 am A commonly overlooked component of a private cloud deployment is the service catalog. In many cases a great deal of time is spent architecting and discussing, infrastructure, virtualization and automation processes with little thought of the actual service delivery. Service catalogs are key to successful private cloud deployment, and the overall usability of the services your cloud delivers.
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January 5, 2012 at 6:14 pm As enterprises push out data centers into cloud-based computing and virtual applications, traditional data center planning and practices haven’t necessarily kept pace. It is time to reshape definitions of classic brick and mortar data centers into a new computing concept with different performance and total cost of ownership expectations? If nothing else, the business cases now driving data center services are beginning to demand it. “As a global organization, we know that we must not only provide 24/7 IT, but also enterprise-strength IT support on a “follow the sun” basis,” said John Heller, CIO of Caterpillar.
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January 5, 2012 at 12:16 pm Microsoft is celebrating the demise of Internet Explorer 6. It still has a small hold globally, but in the United States the archaic browser version has dropped below one percent — which is essentially the same thing as extinct. As impressive as that is on some levels, it also means that one percent of the businesses or consumers out there are still stubbornly using IE6. Shame on you.
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If You’re Part of the IE6 One Percent, You’re Doing It Wrong
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January 5, 2012 at 6:17 am 