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	What will Google gain from an online tablet store? Analysts are divided on the value of a reported plan by Google to sell its Android tablets in an online store, saying such a store wouldn't help Google cut significantly into the 65% tablet market share that Apple's iPad holds. 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 In this Issue Mac owners 3X more likely to preview next OS than Windows users Visa, MasterCard acknowledge data breach Long Beach, Calif. failed to collect $17.6M in fines, blames software From CIO.com: Is Application Security the Glaring Hole in Your Defense? QuickPoll: Can Windows 8 work well on both tablets and PCs? Intel 'superchip' will be aimed at high-performance computing PCIe SSD task force to tackle interoperability issues Can a Google tablet succeed where Nexus phones didn't? Google Drive will offer 5GB of free storage, leak suggests Foxconn overtime reduction won't affect product prices, analysts say Google offers publishers new way to gate access to content Vote on nano-SIM standard postponed after row E.U. Ministers care more about security than privacy, says official Jonny Evans: Does Google earn more cash from Apple iPhone than Android? Preston Gralla: Windows Phone market share is so small, Nielsen doesn't even list it Patrick Thibodeau: Clueless in the White House 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! Mac owners 3X more likely to preview next OS than Windows users Mac users are nearly three times more likely to be running an early version of the OS X Mountain Lion operating system than PC owners testing Microsoft's Windows 8, the Chitika online ad network said today. Read More Visa, MasterCard acknowledge data breach Both Visa and MasterCard Friday are acknowledging a possible data breach of a payment-card processing company network that, once an investigation is completed, could show that sensitive data from cardholders was stolen and payment fraud committed due to the break-in. Read More Long Beach, Calif. failed to collect $17.6M in fines, blames software Traffic-law violators in Long Beach, California, have gotten to keep a little more money in their wallets, as the municipality has failed to collect US$17.6 million in outstanding parking violation fees due to an "antiquated" software system, according to a report released this week by city auditor Laura Doud. Read More From CIO.com: Is Application Security the Glaring Hole in Your Defense? Organizations on average spend one-tenth as much on application security as they do on network security, even though SQL injection attacks are the highest root cause of data breaches. Experts say educating developers in writing secure code is the answer. Read More QuickPoll: Can Windows 8 work well on both tablets and PCs? Windows 8 Consumer Preview offers a new look at Microsoft's upcoming interface for both computers and tablets. Can Windows 8 work well in both environments? Read More Intel 'superchip' will be aimed at high-performance computing Intel this week said it was investing in the development of a "superchip" for high-performance computing systems that the company hopes will raise its supercomputing profile. Read More PCIe SSD task force to tackle interoperability issues The Storage Networking Industry Association is forming a task force to tackle interoperability issues related to PCIe-based solid-state drives. So far, 50 industry representatives have agreed to participate. Read More Can a Google tablet succeed where Nexus phones didn't? So Google may enter the tablet fray directly by marketing its own Android challenger to the iPad while also licensing the OS to hardware partners. What makes it likely to succeed, after its Nexus phones online experiment failed? 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! Google Drive will offer 5GB of free storage, leak suggests It looks as though Google will offer users 5GB of free cloud storage space on its new Drive service. Read More Foxconn overtime reduction won't affect product prices, analysts say Low labor costs and a growing reliance on automation will ensure Apple supplier Foxconn's newly announced efforts to reduce overtime for its employees and hire extra workers has no effect on product prices, according to analysts. Read More Google offers publishers new way to gate access to content Google has announced a new way for online news publishers to gate access to their premium content, by requiring would-be readers to fill in a survey first. Read More Vote on nano-SIM standard postponed after row The European Telecommunications Standards Institute postponed a vote on a specification for nano-SIMs, after a row erupted between Apple and the backers of a competing proposal, Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola Mobility. Read More E.U. Ministers care more about security than privacy, says official Europe's Justice Commissioner said this week that interior ministers are the biggest obstacle to data protection laws in the E.U. Read More Jonny Evans: Does Google earn more cash from Apple iPhone than Android? When you start to follow the money in the mobile age, you'll be surprised just how important Apple is to Google. So who has the power in the new mobile century, and can Google survive the Post-PC switch? Read More Preston Gralla: Windows Phone market share is so small, Nielsen doesn't even list it The bad news for Windows Phone market share continues: In a recent report, Windows Phone market share was so small in the U.S. that the well-known research firm Nielsen didn't even bother to break out its usage. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Clueless in the White House What top elected leaders don't understand about the H-1B visa. Read More
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