The upside of shadow IT

	IBM on path to cut internal apps by 85% | Microsoft yanks Office for Mac 2011 upgrade
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	The upside of shadow IT As employees bypass IT and regularly subscribe to collaboration, analytic and other cloud services with the press of a button, some of the savviest CIOs are embracing and even encouraging shadow IT. Here's why. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2012 Free Registration to IT Roadmap Dallas One day. 25+ conference sessions. Private expo. Peer-to-peer presentations. Keynotes. Analysts. Leading technology providers. IT Roadmap Dallas has everything you need to chart the best IT decisions for your business. Learn more at http://www.itroadmap.net/2012Dallas/nlp In this Issue IBM on path to cut internal apps by 85% Microsoft yanks Office for Mac 2011 upgrade Microsoft to pull plug on XP in 2 years Asus quad-core Transformer Pad 300 tablet ships for $379 Negotiations over Megaupload data to start this week Scientists tap brain signals to help paralyzed hand move From CIO.com: Verizon Is Picking your Pocket for $1 Billion Diskeeper 12 adds TRIM, new interace and faster boot-ups Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data Tech groups pushing for cyberthreat info-sharing bill Venture capital poured into enterprise software in Q1 AT&T brings the network closer to the cloud Shark Tank: Power sharing Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Facebook + Instagram = one big acquisition flop WEBCAST: Autonomy Understand Your Data: The Future of Backup and Archiving Join us to hear the impact of private and public cloud solutions, "big data" and your choices while market evolves. Learn More IBM on path to cut internal apps by 85% IBM has reduced its number of internal applications by 70%, but it's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan. Read More Microsoft yanks Office for Mac 2011 upgrade Microsoft last Friday pulled an Office for Mac 2011 major update from its upgrade servers, acknowledging bugs that have corrupted the Outlook database on some machines. Read More Microsoft to pull plug on XP in 2 years Microsoft has kicked off what it calls a 'two-year countdown' to the death of Windows XP and its Office 2003 productivity suite. Read More Asus quad-core Transformer Pad 300 tablet ships for $379 Asustek on Sunday started shipping its Transformer Pad 300 tablet in the U.S., with the company pitching the tablet as a gaming device and laptop replacement. Read More Negotiations over Megaupload data to start this week Negotiations over how to preserve 28 petabytes of data from Megaupload are set to begin on Thursday, according to the file-sharing site's attorney. Read More Scientists tap brain signals to help paralyzed hand move Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a device they say can deliver messages from the brain directly to muscles -- skipping over the spinal cord -- and enable a paralyzed hand to move. Read More From CIO.com: Verizon Is Picking your Pocket for $1 Billion The bargain prices you pay for smartphones are much less of a bargain than you think. There's a huge hidden profit for carriers like Verizon, AT&T and Sprint that we consumers never hear about. Read More WHITE PAPER: CyrusOne Colocation: The Logical Home for the Cloud That environment is colocation—sophisticated data centers where some of the biggest enterprises and cloud providers in the world can offload the risks of growing capital costs, facility management and obsolescence and focus on their core mission. Learn More! Diskeeper 12 adds TRIM, new interace and faster boot-ups Condusiv today announced a new version of its disk defragmentation software, Diskeeper, which now includes TRIM commands to reclaim SSD space marked for deletion, as well as new monitoring tools and fast system boot-up features. Read More Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data The FCC cleared Google of wrongdoing in the so-called 'WiSpy' case. It was the right call, says columnist Mike Elgan, because Google did nothing wrong. Read More Tech groups pushing for cyberthreat info-sharing bill Several technology trade groups are pushing the U.S. Congress to pass a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite ongoing privacy concerns voiced by digital rights and civil liberties groups. Read More Venture capital poured into enterprise software in Q1 The buttoned-down IT industry outshone flashy consumer Internet startups at raising money in the first quarter, logging a big increase in U.S. venture capital investments, especially in enterprise software. Read More AT&T brings the network closer to the cloud AT&T wants to change how mobile devices are used, and the company's CTO, Krish Prabhu, is looking for ways to deliver 'intelligent' cloud services to consumers over its network. Read More Shark Tank: Power sharing The boss needs a power supply for his PC's speakers. Unfortunately, there aren't any to spare... Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Facebook + Instagram = one big acquisition flop Facebook's foolish buyout of Instagram is a waste of a billion of its pre-IPO dollars, but it's not the all-time worst tech business deal. Read More
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