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	AMD's new CEO likes basketball and the chip maker's future Since being hired last August, Rory Read, Advanced Micro Devices CEO, has been reshaping the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?     Using VMware NIC Teaming?     Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)     Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff Click to continue In this Issue Google faces class action lawsuits against new privacy policy Samsung's Galaxy Note will get Android 4.0 in Q2, along with new apps Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud Meg Whitman fluffs HP's age, gets corrected by shareholder Will Megaupload's 28 petabytes of data be deleted? Location-based firms see mobile profit, user worries From CIO.com: 9 IT outsourcing RFP response red flags Verizon spectrum deals could hurt competition, say critics NEC to acquire Convergys data management business for $449M Apple battles Nokia, RIM and Motorola over nano-SIM standard Moxie Software integrates enterprise social collaboration and customer service software Cloud security registry slow to catch on IT Blogwatch: The Pirate Bay to launch airborne proxy drones WHITE PAPER: GroupLogic Secure Enterprise File Sharing and Syncing GroupLogic's new activEcho is the industry's only secure Enterprise File Sharing and Synching solution that balances the need for simplicity for the end user, and the security, management and flexibility required by the enterprise. This paper provided an in-depth view into the security features and benefits of activEcho. Learn more Google faces class action lawsuits against new privacy policy Google faces consumer complaints in federal courts in New York and California which claim that its new privacy policy violates the company's earlier policies that promised that information provided by a user for one service would not be used by another service without the consumer's consent. Read More Samsung's Galaxy Note will get Android 4.0 in Q2, along with new apps Samsung Electronics will upgrade its Galaxy Note to Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich starting during the second quarter. The upgrade will also include new applications that take advantage of the device's digital pen, the company said Thursday. Read More Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts of data in the cloud. Read More Meg Whitman fluffs HP's age, gets corrected by shareholder Meg Whitman has spent her first six months at Hewlett-Packard talking to customers and employees and learning how the business works, but apparently she didn't get much of a history lesson. Read More Will Megaupload's 28 petabytes of data be deleted? The hosting provider for the defunct file-sharing site Megaupload wants to delete the data now that investigators have collected most of what they need for the criminal case against the company's operators. Read More Location-based firms see mobile profit, user worries The location-based mobile services industry is already lucrative but has to do a better job easing consumers' fears about invasion of privacy, some executives said at the GPS-Wireless conference. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. From CIO.com: 9 IT outsourcing RFP response red flags From pricing and skills to SLAs and negotiation protocol, businesses can encounter many pitfalls when evaluating proposals for an IT outsourcing project. Here are nine telltale signs that a vendor might not be the right fit for the project. Read More Verizon spectrum deals could hurt competition, say critics Verizon Wireless' proposed purchase of unused mobile spectrum from four cable companies will reduce the incentive for the companies to compete against each other in the video and broadband markets, critics told U.S. lawmakers Wednesday. Read More NEC to acquire Convergys data management business for $449M NEC will acquire the information management business of Convergys for about $449 million, to strengthen its telecommunications software products targeted at large carriers. Read More Apple battles Nokia, RIM and Motorola over nano-SIM standard Next week, two proposals for a new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM -- one backed by Apple and the other by Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola Mobility -- will go head-to-head as the European Telecommunications Standards Institute decides which card future smartphones and tablets will use. Read More Moxie Software integrates enterprise social collaboration and customer service software Moxie Software will release at the end of March an integrated suite that gives companies both enterprise social networking capabilities for internal employee collaboration and customer service software for handling customer queries. Read More Cloud security registry slow to catch on Last August the Cloud Security Alliance announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas a registry that it hoped would serve as a place for prospective cloud users to go to easily inspect and compare cloud vendors' security controls. But to date, only three companies have submitted their cloud security data, making the registry of limited use. Read More IT Blogwatch: The Pirate Bay to launch airborne proxy drones The Pirate Bay has unveiled its aggressive plan to launch airborne drones that act as proxy servers. It says these 'Low Orbit Server Stations' will help it evade being shut down. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it's the ultimate in cloud-computing, or just an early April fools gag. Read More
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