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	Google acquisition of Motorola stalled as China extends probe The Chinese government, Google's last hurdle to acquiring Motorola Mobility, are slowing up the purchase process by expanding their investigation into the pending transaction. 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. In this Issue HP confirms merger of PC, printer businesses Galaxy S Blaze goes on sale exclusively with T-Mobile Analyst: One in 10 tablets sold has a cellular connection Univ. of Tampa says student info was exposed for 8 months From CIO.com: U.S. Businesses Vulnerable to Espionage Without Cybersecurity FCC votes to open new mobile spectrum Firefox to turn on default encryption for Google searches Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test Report about hack threat to Tibetan activists used as lure in malware attack NEC to add earthquake sensors to its cloud services Adobe updates Digital Marketing Suite Fujitsu tool can ferret out phone scams EMC buys app development management firm Pivotal Labs Browser survey puts Chrome in first place -- for one day Preston Gralla: Chrome beats IE for a day -- this could be the wave of the future Darlene Storm: Shocker: NSA Chief denies Total Information Awareness spying on Americans JR Raphael: Samsung Galaxy S III: The super-awesome list of everything we know RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CDW Leverage Unified Communications for Greater Productivity Join CIO magazine, Computerworld, and Network World for an up-to-date look at today's social workplace, where you discover how real organizations are leveraging social capabilities such as presence, instant messaging, chat and video to improve secure employee communication, collaboration, productivity and - of critical importance - job satisfaction Learn more at: http://events.cio.com/UCSeminar HP confirms merger of PC, printer businesses Hewlett-Packard today announced the merger of its Imaging and Printing Group and its Personal Systems Group in what it called an effort to drive profitable growth for the entire company. Read More Galaxy S Blaze goes on sale exclusively with T-Mobile T-Mobile USA has started selling the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G smartphone in select stores, and will begin nationwide sales March 28, a spokeswoman said. Read More Analyst: One in 10 tablets sold has a cellular connection It's clear that people are willing to pay for new tablets, but it's also clear that they aren't yet ready to take on the fee for cellular connectivity to it, according to an analyst. Read More Univ. of Tampa says student info was exposed for 8 months An in-class project on advanced search techniques led to the discovery of a major data breach at the University of Tampa in Florida last week. Read More From CIO.com: U.S. Businesses Vulnerable to Espionage Without Cybersecurity Commerce Secretary warns that without sweeping reforms, U.S. businesses will continue to fall prey to foreign corporate espionage. Read More FCC votes to open new mobile spectrum The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to move ahead with plans to open up 40MHz of wireless spectrum in the 2GHz band to mobile voice and broadband service. Read More Firefox to turn on default encryption for Google searches Mozilla is currently testing default encrypted Google searches for all Firefox users, with the intent to make all Google searches encrypted in the near future, the browser maker said on Wednesday. Read More Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test If your enterprise finds itself needing to transfer a lot of data in the cloud, beware: depending on where the data's being moved to, it can take a long time. Read More 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 Report about hack threat to Tibetan activists used as lure in malware attack Hackers are using a recent report about cyberthreats to Tibetan activists as a lure in a new attack against pro-Tibet organizations that distributes Windows and Mac malware, researchers from security vendor AlienVault said. Read More NEC to add earthquake sensors to its cloud services NEC said Wednesday it will add small earthquake sensors to the growing set of devices that work on its cloud-based network platform. Read More Adobe updates Digital Marketing Suite Adobe Systems has introduced tools for advertising across social networking sites and different devices, and also analytics to keep track of it all, the company said on Wednesday. Read More Fujitsu tool can ferret out phone scams Japanese technology giant Fujitsu said it has developed a system that can determine when someone is being targeted by a phone scam. Read More EMC buys app development management firm Pivotal Labs EMC plans to buy Pivotal Labs, an application development consultancy that focuses on helping users create applications to run in big data environments. Read More Browser survey puts Chrome in first place -- for one day The Google Chrome browser overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer, to become the number one browser for a single day last weekend, according to website analytics company StatCounter. Read More Preston Gralla: Chrome beats IE for a day -- this could be the wave of the future For a day last weekend Chrome became the world's most popular browser, topping Internet Explorer, according to the analytics firm StatCounter. This may not be a one-off and could be the wave of the future. Read More Darlene Storm: Shocker: NSA Chief denies Total Information Awareness spying on Americans Alarmed at new claims of NSA warrantless surveillance of Americans, spying on 'every email, phone call and tweet' in real time, Congress questioned NSA chief General Alexander. He denied it, but other NSA officials say total information awareness is almost upon us. Read More JR Raphael: Samsung Galaxy S III: The super-awesome list of everything we know Samsung Galaxy S III rumors are dropping like apples from a tree these days -- and like with any other Web-fueled rumor parade, it can get tough to separate fact from speculation. Read More
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