Augmented reality: Pure hype or Next Big Thing in mobile?; Apple smashes Mac, iPhone sales records again

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	Augmented reality: Pure hype or Next Big Thing in mobile? Augmented reality apps for your smartphone let you ’surf the world’ as you walk through it, but does the current technology live up to its promise? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent The Alternative To SCOM Complete monitoring of Windows, Linux, all Unixes, and SNMP — all from one vendor. Over 18 years experience and 2,000 happy customers. Automate all monitoring today. Argent engineers tune your worldwide environment onsite at no cost. Replace SCOM now with proven Argent. Click to continue In this Issue Apple smashes Mac, iPhone sales records again Image gallery: Mobile augmented reality apps New Microsoft Office price list: Winners and losers With emotion, Sun’s long goodbye nears the finish AMD takes processor market share from Intel, IDC says IPhone hacker says he’s also cracked PlayStation 3 Apple Q1 profits grow as iPhone shipments boom Search engine use explodes in December Storage spending focused on data consolidation, fast ROI Chinese censorship strong despite Google Possible China links in oil company cyberattacks VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees IT Blogwatch: Techcrunch down; Apple tablet hype hack? Mitch Wagner: My favorite tools: Hardware and iPhone apps 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 Apple smashes Mac, iPhone sales records again Apple reported record Mac and iPhone sales today, marking the second consecutive quarter the company has reset the bar for both product lines. Read More Image gallery: Mobile augmented reality apps Augmented reality apps for your smartphone let you ’surf the world’ as you walk through it. Read More New Microsoft Office price list: Winners and losers Microsoft’s new Office pricing scheme is more complex that first thought; it’s at least partially a response to increased competition from IBM, Google, Zoho and OpenOffice.org. Read More With emotion, Sun’s long goodbye nears the finish James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, posted the image of a tombstone on his blog last week, an R.I.P., for Sun Microsystems. Before long. more than 800 people had posted their own comments and memories. Read More AMD takes processor market share from Intel, IDC says Advanced Micro Devices gained share in worldwide processor shipments at the expense of rival Intel during the fourth quarter of 2009, IDC said in a study released on Tuesday. Read More IPhone hacker says he’s also cracked PlayStation 3 The 20-year-old hacker best known for cracking Apple’s iPhone says he’s done it again, this time with Sony’s PlayStation 3. Read More Apple Q1 profits grow as iPhone shipments boom Apple on Monday reported growth in revenue and net income for the first quarter of 2010, buoyed by strong iPhone and Mac shipments. 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Read More Chinese censorship strong despite Google The Internet has loosened the control Chinese authorities hold over information in the country, but censorship there will remain strong despite Google’s threat to leave China. Read More Possible China links in oil company cyberattacks At least three U.S. oil companies were hit by a series of targeted cyberattacks that may have originated in China, according to a report today in the Christian Science Monitor. Read More VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees Virtualization company VMware has reported a healthy increase in revenue for the fourth quarter, thanks largely to gains from software maintenance fees. Read More IT Blogwatch: Techcrunch down; Apple tablet hype hack? Last night, a major tech blog was hacked. While you were sleeping, TechCrunch was dead to the world. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it’s connected to Apple’s announcements tomorrow, pointing fingers at Rackspace security. Not to mention Happy Australia Day… Read More Mitch Wagner: My favorite tools: Hardware and iPhone apps Because this is a blog about digital tools, the best way I can introduce myself is to tell you about my favorite tools. I started making a list over the weekend, and it quickly got out of hand. I use a lot of tools. I cut the list down to its essentials — and it was still enormous. So I’ll break it up in parts. First, the hardware and iPhone apps. Hardware TiVo Series 1 and 2. We have two TiVos. We don’t ever watch live TV. Even if we want to watch something at airtime, we wait a few minutes so we can fast-forward through commercials and credits. Read More
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