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The best blogs from IDG

Why Office for iPad is inevitable

New reports have surfaced that Microsoft is developing Office apps for iOS and Android. If true, it's a very smart move by Microsoft.

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Preston Gralla

Seeing Through Windows

There's "slow growth" ahead for Windows Phone, warns IDC report

Windows Phone is falling further behind Android and iOS, with market share dropping from a year ago, says the latest report from IDC. And the report also warns that there will likely be only "slow growth" for the smartphone operating system.

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Jonny Evans

Apple Holic

Apple iPhone 5 -- fresh reports claim 4-inch display

From where I'm sitting it looks like Samsung may rue the day it crossed its biggest customer, Apple as it appears Cupertino's investing in competing firms, meaning the iPhone 5 won't just transform smartphones, but will also generate new competitors for its former friend.

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Sharky

Shark Tank

And now you know

Support supervisor for a retirement system is responsible for (among other things) making sure that tax form 1099 goes out to all pension recipients -- as well as the special machines to process the forms.

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IT Blogwatch

A Daily Digest of IT Blogs from Richi Jennings

Google wins again vs. Oracle: No patent probs.

In the case of Oracle v Google, the latter has prevailed -- at least, as far as the jury is concerned. There was no Java patent infringement in Android, said the men and women who performed the service. Now we wait to find out if APIs are even copyrightable at all. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers go back for second-helpings of popcorn.

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Darlene Storm

Security Is Sexy

London's flying cameras spy shoelaces nearly a mile away; Will drones in the USA?

Will the capabilities of drones spying on Americans from above match what London's 'eye in the sky' cameras can see and hear? While monitoring for security threats from the air, London’s helicopter cameras can make out shoelaces from nearly a mile away! It also captures audio. If you don’t like the idea of your local police station spy-flying drones, then the EFF said local governments have the power to limit drone surveillance.

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Is big data a big drain on your network?

There's a lot of talk right now in the industry about big data and the business intelligence applications that are being used to wrangle it. However, very few people are talking about the impact that big data can have on the network.

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JR Raphael

Android Power

The Google I/O Countdown Contest: Win a free Toshiba Excite 10 tablet!

Google's I/O developers' conference is right around the corner -- and we're celebrating by giving away tons of free Android stuff. Are you ready to win?

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Michael Horowitz

Defensive Computing

Peeking under the hood of Chrome browser reveals CPU hog

The Chrome Task Manager pinpoints a performance problem.

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Workforce IT program: A model for debt-free college education

Workforce Opportunity Services partners with businesses, restructures college curricula to put vocational skills first, and offers a pay-as-you-go model for higher education that lets low-income students graduate debt free. It's a model that America's colleges and universities might do well to follow.

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Healthcare IT Spotlight

Vital Strategies & Tactics

Innovate consistently? Yes, you can.

 

It's 2020. The at-home telemedicine robot reminds me it's time for the doctor to check how well the burn on my arm is healing. The specialist is in a clinic located more than 45 miles away, but she thoroughly examines my arm through a wound assessment device built into the robot. After the consultation, my smart band reminds me that the mobile health vehicle will be at my workplace, and I should stop by to get my flu shot. I quickly acknowledge my medication reminder alert, take my meds, and then hop into my driverless smart car.

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Darragh Delaney

User and Network Forensics

The insider threat

I have been on the road for the past few weeks, last week I was in the Middle East and this week I come to you from Scotland. These places would appear to the outsider as being very different places but not when it comes to IT. One topic that was common throughout most meetings that I attended was on the subject of the insider threat, something getting inside a network and causing a problem.

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Chris Poelker

Intelligent Storage Networking

The current data center design and implementation shift

A major shift is underway in data center infrastructure procurement and design. Many public and private entities have shifted from making large hardware and software purchases in the form of components of servers, storage and applications to instead buying pre-packaged bundles, building blocks and/or PODS. This trend is part of a more modular data center design approach based on vendor tested and certified reference architectures.

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How regulators learn to stop worrying and love the cloud

In my last two articles, the context has been the opportunities and challenges that financial institutions (FIs) have with implementing private clouds successfully. But what about public clouds?

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'Security as a service' may be federal future

Rival vendors gather to explain cloud computing to congressional staffers.

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