One of the more persistent rumors on the Macworld Expo show floor this past week -- besides the one saying that Jobs would parachute onto the stage during the keynote in order to prove that he's fit as a fiddle -- was that Apple would be ditching Macworld next year for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which also took place last week.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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