Apple builds tablet buzz with silence, say experts; IDC: Chip market rebounding after recession; AT&T sees soaring use of Wi-Fi

	IDC: Chip market on way back after recession \| AT&T sees soaring use of Wi-Fi — just in time for an Apple tablet
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	Apple builds tablet buzz with silence, say experts Apple’s ability to spawn massive interest in its still-unannounced tablet is based on a respectable track record and keeping its corporate mouth shut, experts said today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess Click to continue In this Issue IDC: Chip market on way back after recession AT&T sees soaring use of Wi-Fi — just in time for an Apple tablet Apple defends AT&T, says partner will fix iPhone problems Twitter now has 75M users; most asleep at the mouse As wired business shrinks, Verizon expects 13,000 job cuts NASA abandons Mars rover rescue efforts Nexus One maker sees potential in Windows Mobile 7 In Xbox case, Microsoft cites Apple’s win over Psystar Google Toolbar Tracks Some Browsing When It Should Not DOT bans truck drivers from texting Microsoft’s top lawyer urges new EU laws for cloud computing Verizon posts slim revenue gains, but net income loss NASA space telescope quickly spots first asteroid Nebraskan pleads guilty to 2008 Web attack on Scientologists Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan Amir Lev: Spam Judo: ultimate solution or academic reinvention? Mitch Wagner: What I hope Apple will announce tomorrow Other Resources Reduce Backup Costs with Data Deduplication RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ITnews Get the new ITnews iPhone App Access up-to-the-minute, award-winning technology news from well known and respected IDG tech sites all in one place. Receive breaking tech news push notifications, view stories by Tag Cloud, and more. Download it now>> IDC: Chip market on way back after recession IDC is projecting that PC semiconductor unit sales will grow by 15.1% in 2010, rebounding from a year in which unit shipments grew by only 2.5% and revenue declined by more than 7%. Read More AT&T sees soaring use of Wi-Fi — just in time for an Apple tablet Wi-Fi connections via AT&T Inc. more than quadrupled last year, hitting 85.5 million connections mostly made via smartphones from 20,000 hot spots, the carrier said. Read More Apple defends AT&T, says partner will fix iPhone problems Apple executives yesterday again stuck up for their exclusive U.S. partner, AT&T, and said that they approved the carrier’s solutions to long-running problems handing iPhone traffic. Read More Twitter now has 75M users; most asleep at the mouse The number of Twitter users has climbed to a lofty 75 million, but the growth rate of new users is slowing and a lot of current Twitterers are inactive, according to a study released today. Read More As wired business shrinks, Verizon expects 13,000 job cuts Verizon Communications Inc. expects to reduce its workforce by another 13,000 in 2010, following the same trend it has carried out in each of the past two years. Read More NASA abandons Mars rover rescue efforts NASA today acknowledged for the first time that the Mars rover Spirit will remain stuck on the Martian surface, but if it survives the planet’s frigid winter, could operate as a stationary laboratory Read More Nexus One maker sees potential in Windows Mobile 7 High Tech Computer (HTC), the world’s largest maker of smartphones running Google’s Android mobile OS and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS, believes the Nexus One will raise its global profile this year while the launch of Windows Mobile 7 will lead to the development of more apps for Microsoft phones. Read More In Xbox case, Microsoft cites Apple’s win over Psystar Microsoft last week cited a 2008 legal victory by operating system rival Apple as it asked a federal court to toss out antitrust claims brought by a company that sells Xbox 360 accessories armed with video game cheats. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper Tackling the Top Five Network Access Control Challenges Numerous factors are driving enterprises to control who’s admitted to the corporate network and what resourcesservers, applications, stored datathey’re allowed to access.Business trends such as mobility, outsourcing and the blurring of corporate network boundaries mean enterprises must provide network and application access. IT must open the network to a dynamic workforce, while at the same time protecting critical assets from the vulnerabilities that openness and user mobility bring. In this document we explore five common networking challenges that enterprises facenetwork protection, guest user access, network visibility and monitoring, application access control, and identity-based Quality of Service (QoS)and discuss how UAC can be used to address each. Read More! Google Toolbar Tracks Some Browsing When It Should Not A bug in Google Toolbar has resulted in the search giant receiving information about users’ Web surfing in violation of the product’s privacy policy, according to an anti-spyware and privacy researcher. Read More DOT bans truck drivers from texting Federal officials banned texting by commercial drivers of large trucks and buses. Read More Microsoft’s top lawyer urges new EU laws for cloud computing The European Union should update its laws to better suit cloud computing, Microsoft’s top lawyer urged in Brussels. Read More Verizon posts slim revenue gains, but net income loss Verizon Communications reported revenue increases for the fourth quarter of 2009, driven by wireless and broadband growth, but the gains were slim after accounting for revenue from its January 2009 acquisition of AllTel. Read More NASA space telescope quickly spots first asteroid Almost as soon as it came online, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has spotted a new, little over half-mile wide asteroid some 98 million miles from Earth. Read More Nebraskan pleads guilty to 2008 Web attack on Scientologists A 20-year-old man from Nebraska has agreed to plead guilty to charges stemming from a January 2008 attack on Web sites of the Church of Scientology. Read More Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan IBM/Lotus has introduced Project Vulcan, no less than an outline for the future of its collaboration business. Can it become a hit and circle the bases at the expense of competitors such as Microsoft, Google and Cisco? Read More Amir Lev: Spam Judo: ultimate solution or academic reinvention? I saw an interesting article in New Scientist this morning: “To beat spam, turn its own weapons against it”. I thought I’d talk a little about it in this week’s Security Levity… Read More Mitch Wagner: What I hope Apple will announce tomorrow This is what I have written on my calendar for tomorrow morning: “10 am: Apple announcement: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.” Yes, I am excited to see what Steve Jobs unveils tomorrow. If the rumors are right, he’ll show off a tablet computer, as well as new business models for periodicals, book publishing, movies and TV. But I’m hoping for a bit more than that. Here’s what’s on my wishlist. Read More
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