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	The iPad quiz: Do you really know your tablet? The iPad is packed full of features and capabilities, some unique to it and some shared with other iOS devices like the iPhone. If you own an iPad, put it away when you take this quiz -- let's see how well you really know your digital companion. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO 100 CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony Join your peers in Colorado Springs August 14-16th for this legendary event that brings together technology and business leaders from the world's top companies. Over three days, you'll have access to a topflight group of peers and respected experts who'll help shape your business agenda and IT strategy. Register today! In this Issue A plea for sanity in software versioning The apps that ate the mobile Internet will change 3G pricing HP heats up cloud wars by backing OpenStack 5 helpful hints for building effective private clouds Forget the free coffee -- employees really, really want an iPhone RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap Features Five Concurrent Morning Tracks Get the most out of your time at IT Roadmap Dallas (September 13th at the Dallas Convention Center), by choosing from one of five concurrent morning technology tracks. Track include: The Public and Private Cloud; The Connected Enterprise; The Modern Network, The New Data Center; and The Evolving Threat Landscape. Click to continue A plea for sanity in software versioning Holy cow, when did it get so hard to make sense of software version numbers? If you use Google's Chrome Web browser, you're probably using version 12 right now. If you've configured it for the bleeding-edge developer channel, you might be on version 14. By comparison, the Oracle database is on version 11, and it's been around since the 1970s. Read More The apps that ate the mobile Internet will change 3G pricing I've been very vocal in my criticisms of wireless carriers, but as broadband traffic continues to soar, and unlimited data plans go the way of the dodo, I'm beginning to think that we video- and VoIP-happy users are becoming our own enemy. Read More HP heats up cloud wars by backing OpenStack In a blog post on the HP site on Wednesday, vice president of clouds services Emil Sayegh announced HP's "intent to join and support" the open source OpenStack cloud infrastructure project. It's a major milestone in big vendor efforts to carve up territory on the new public/private cloud frontier. Read More 5 helpful hints for building effective private clouds So you're thinking of building a private cloud. It seems like the right thing to do, considering that every one of your enterprise software and hardware providers has spun themselves into the space. Read More Forget the free coffee -- employees really, really want an iPhone If a new survey by Kelton Research is to be believed, 71 percent of 500 U.S. and U.K. employees feel so strongly about using their own mobile device over what IT offers that they are willing to give up at least one thing in the workplace to keep their preferred gadget. Read More
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