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	As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself Digital tape media will turn 60 in May, and while tape sales are on the decline, new open file specifications like LTFS and new markets could revive tape for the long term. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! In this Issue Congress urged to secure drone law AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5M Google and Oracle negotiate potential damages Google going forward with Go language Microsoft releases ASP.Net Web API, Razor source code From CIO.com: Video Game Art: Smithsonian Exhibit Celebrates 40 Years of Creativity Dell ends smartphone sales in the US Apple iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network targeted in suit Chinese leader asks Apple's Tim Cook to care for workers Druva, TeamDrive update data services Motorola rejects $300M Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in Germany Red Hat joins the billion-dollar club Cisco to acquire home network management company IT Blogwatch: Google Go 1 is go; apps a go go; devs agog RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Congress urged to secure drone law A leading rights advocacy group this week called on Congress to add civil liberties protections to a recently passed law that opens U.S. airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles. Read More AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5M AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved $5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the cost of running inefficient or underutilized IT equipment. Read More Google and Oracle negotiate potential damages In the runup to the trial date for their dispute over whether Google's Android mobile OS infringes on Oracle's Java patents, Google and Oracle are negotiating over potential damages. Read More Google going forward with Go language Version 1 of programming environment is released, featuring binary distribution support and integration with Google's App Engine cloud platform Read More Microsoft releases ASP.Net Web API, Razor source code The source code for ASP.Net Web API and Razor are being made available via an Apache 2.0 license Read More From CIO.com: Video Game Art: Smithsonian Exhibit Celebrates 40 Years of Creativity 'The Art of Video Games' exhibit opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on March 16. Read More Dell ends smartphone sales in the US Dell has stopped selling smartphones in the U.S. as it tweaks its mobile strategy to focus more on emerging markets and higher-margin products. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! Apple iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network targeted in suit A South African inventor has claimed in a U.S. federal court that Apple's iTunes and Sony's PlayStation Network infringe a patent relating to a "data vending system" issued to him in 2004. Read More Chinese leader asks Apple's Tim Cook to care for workers Apple CEO Tim Cook met with a top Chinese official on Tuesday, who called on foreign companies to pay more attention to the care of their workers in the country, according to state-run media. Read More Druva, TeamDrive update data services Cloud file-sharing service provider Druva and backup company TeamDrive announced upgrades to their respective mobile data services that include either a combined repository for all data regardless of the device or security through encryption. Read More Motorola rejects $300M Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in Germany Motorola refused Microsoft's offer of a $300 million bond to postpone enforcement of potential German injunctions against Microsoft products that use the H.264 video codec, which if granted could exclude Microsoft from the German market, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Read More Red Hat joins the billion-dollar club It's official: Red Hat is the first open-source software company to generate a billion dollars in annual revenue. Read More Cisco to acquire home network management company Cisco this week said it plans to acquire privately held ClearAccess, a provider of service provisioning and device management software to service providers. Read More IT Blogwatch: Google Go 1 is go; apps a go go; devs agog Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is proud to announce the first stable release of Go, its spiffy, easy-to-use, open-source programming language. Go 1 is now available for your downloading pleasure. 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