Microsoft's Surface RT may win by default

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	Microsoft's Surface RT may win by default Looking for a Windows RT tablet? Your choices grow slimmer by the day. In early August, most industry observers expected to see a variety of Windows RT tablets from many manufacturers ship around the OS's General Availability time on Oct. 26. But currently if you want a Windows RT machine in the foreseeable future, you can get a Microsoft Surface RT or, for the same price ($599 for 32GB with cover; $699 for 64GB), an Asus Vivo Tab RT. Those are your choices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent Optimizing Cloud Infrastructure The documents provides design guidance, configuration examples and ALU recommended best practices for WAN optimisation when interconnecting geographically dispersed data centers and when using Citrix Netscaler to implement layer 2 connectivity across Layer 3 network infrastructure. Learn More In this Issue Windows Phone 8 will tell users where to find free Wi-Fi Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday TI unveils wireless charging chip with 4X powering area Mobile carriers' Sandy recovery teams brace for another storm WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Transforming Enterprise Application Deployment This white paper reviews the capabilities of HP's scale-up family of ProLiant Servers and shows how legacy IBM Power System customers can move their applications to HP ProLiant Servers to reduce expenses – without compromising application scalability, performance or reliability. Learn More Windows Phone 8 will tell users where to find free Wi-Fi Microsoft will provide information about the location and quality of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Windows Phone 8 so users can find the best nearby networks. The information will come from a database of 11 million hotspots worldwide that is created and maintained by Devicescape, a vendor of Wi-Fi software for carriers. Devicescape has licensed the database to Microsoft for inclusion in Windows Phone 8 handsets. Read More Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday Adobe on Tuesday announced it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. At the same time, Adobe issued an update that patched seven critical Flash vulnerabilities, and Microsoft shipped fixes for Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), which includes an embedded copy of Flash. Read More TI unveils wireless charging chip with 4X powering area Texas Instruments Wednesday unveiled its first single-stage wireless charging integrated chip (IC). TI said the new IC is 60 percent smaller than its predecessors. The company today also added a power controller chip that it said increases the charging area of a pad by 400 percent. Read More Mobile carriers' Sandy recovery teams brace for another storm Just as mobile operators start to get their networks back up in most areas affected by Hurricane Sandy last week, another storm is heading for the region that was hardest hit. Read More
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