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I'm still waiting for Windows Phone to win me over Deb Shinder is a fan of Microsoft products, but there are several reasons why she hasn't completely jumped on the Windows Phone bandwagon. Read more Editor's note Is Windows Phone is going to be a success then it's going to have to win over Windows fans like Deb Shinder. Read Deb's article on why she's not sold yet. -Jason Resource of the day Free 2011 Salary Report IT Professionals - Register on activeTechPros for immediate access Business Professionals - Join the activeBizPros community to view the report More from TechRepublic   Can Google survive its blind faith in the algorithm? It's been a tough year for Google search as it has had a difficult time targeting content farms and accidentally removed good content. Read more 10 reasons why tablets will overtake laptops in the next year Why are business users ditching their laptops in favor of a tablet when they hit the road? Tablet convert Jack Wallen highlights several reasons. Read more Infographic: How social media carelessness can help criminals Sometimes a picture paints a thousand words. Use this infographic from Credit Sesame to help drive home a message about online security-awareness to the employees in your organization. Read more Ice Cream Sandwich may be Android's ticket to success Google recently announced a "unified" version of its mobile operating system, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich." You could be excused for getting simultaneously confused and hungry while reading about Google's mobile OS journey, where each iteration is named after a dessert, in alphabetical order. The prior release, Android Honeycomb, was interesting in that it was designed only for tablets,... Read more Breaking into the digital forensics field: Melia Kelley's path The field of digital forensics is not for the faint-hearted, especially if it involves intelligence-gathering for the military. Michael Kassner talks to Melia Kelley about the path that took her to Iraq. Read more News from ZDNet   HTC Radar 4G is first Windows Phone Mango device in U.S. (review) The HTC Radar 4G will be available at T-Mobile on 2 November and is the first Windows Phone Mango device to hit the U.S. It is a good device at $100, but not the top dog with this OS. Read more Google goes indoors for Street View extension Google's Street View service is heading indoors, collecting images of businesses and other public spaces, in a further bid to 'map the world'. Read more Barnes & Noble readying new Nook for November 7 debut Something wicked this way comes: Barnes & Noble is bringing out a new Nook soon. Read more 4 Motorola devices get dibs on Ice Cream Sandwich Will your Motorola device be front-of-line for some Android Ice Cream Sandwich? Read more Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, plans to take on Android, iOS and Windows on the smartphones, tablets and smart TVs. Read more Cloud providers form alliance based around Google Apps Although Google Apps might seem like a simple platform, it's definitely one of the most prevalent cloud options as it is used by over four million companies worldwide and counting. Thus, a group... Read more Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure Open Compute Project strives to model itself after the Apache Software Foundation, with technical contributions vetted by community members. Read more Google Reader gets its overdue interface refresh Google Reader abandons old features, gets new layout, and looks toward more Google+ integration. Read more Will Asus' coming ARM-based Windows 8 tablets be available in 2012? PC maker Asus has let the cat partially out of the bag regarding its Windows 8 tablet plans. It seems apparent, however, that there are at least two Win 8 tablets coming from Asus before the end... Read more HP already testing Windows 8 on TouchPads Will Windows 8 be the next-gen HP TouchPad's "special sauce"? Read more Apple's iPad grabs education lead, says survey A survey of U.S. school districts points to a 6 students per tablet ratio compared to a 10-to-1 ratio for PCs. Read more HTC: Challenges going into 2012 mount as Q4 unit outlook weakens HTC is going to have to fight for shelf space at carriers in the U.S. and Europe and may not have the smartphones to compete. Read more Featured multimedia   Nokia's new Lumia 800, 710 Windows phones (photos) At Nokia World, the phone maker showed off the centerpieces of what it hopes will be a road to Windows Phone-powered recovery, the higher-end Lumia 800 and lower-cost Lumia 710. 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