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	Microsoft reboots Hotmail to build consumer destination, says analyst Microsoft's rebranding of Hotmail as Outlook.com is a move by the company to hold its first-place position in free email while pushing the domain as more of a consumer destination, an analyst said today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Crucial unveils bargain-basement-priced SSDs for older laptops Microsoft warns of critical Oracle code bugs in Exchange Verizon set to sell Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder for $50 Bing lets you ask your Facebook friends as you search Apple v. Samsung: What the jury was told Microsoft previews new consumer webmail service: Outlook.com Google adds Google+ video Hangouts to Gmail Samsung launches Music Hub service The Byte - Panasonic profits, Gmail video chat, Mars rover to land, data center cooling Mobile malware cases nearly triple in first half of 2012, says NetQin Kenneth van Wyk: Digital duct tape for SSL Oracle CRM on Demand update focuses on industries VGA ports bowing out of home computers, lingering in the workplace Box raises $125M in mostly private equity funds Preston Gralla: Five reasons Microsoft's new cloud-based Outlook.com beats Windows 8 Mail JR Raphael: Google Now revisited: One month with Android's new secret weapon WHITE PAPER: 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 Crucial unveils bargain-basement-priced SSDs for older laptops Crucial today announced a new line of SSDs aimed at users who want to upgrade their pre-2011 notebooks with 128GB and 256GB models that sell for $100 and $190, respectively. Read More Microsoft warns of critical Oracle code bugs in Exchange Microsoft last week warned IT administrators that critical vulnerabilities in code licensed from Oracle could give attackers access to Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 systems. Read More Verizon set to sell Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder for $50 Verizon Wireless will sell the Android 4.0 Pantech Maraudersmartphone for $49.99, after rebate, with a two-year service agreement starting Thursday. Read More Bing lets you ask your Facebook friends as you search Microsoft announced in a blog post that when users do a search, they can tag Facebook friends by name and get their recommendations on the search. Read More Apple v. Samsung: What the jury was told The 10 California jurors who will decide the rights and wrongs in the battle between Apple and Samsung were sworn in late Monday and alongside instructions on how to proceed during the case, the U.S. judge presiding over the case explained to them the basics of the high-profile battle. Read More Microsoft previews new consumer webmail service: Outlook.com Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Read More Google adds Google+ video Hangouts to Gmail Google is adding the Google+ Hangout feature to Gmail, the company's popular cloud-based email service. Read More Samsung launches Music Hub service Samsung Tuesday unveiled a mobile music service, called Music Hub, that will initially run on its Galaxy S III smartphone that is sold by all the major U.S. carriers. Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right In this live, interactive Webcast you will learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. The Byte - Panasonic profits, Gmail video chat, Mars rover to land, data center cooling Panasonic booked a small profit in its latest quarter, Google has upgraded its Gmail video chat system, Mars rover Curiosity is only days from landing on the red planet and more. Read More Mobile malware cases nearly triple in first half of 2012, says NetQin Mobile malware is rising fast, infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the first half of 2012, up 177% from the same period a year ago, according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. Read More Kenneth van Wyk: Digital duct tape for SSL Secure Sockets Layer has been implicated in several security problems of late. Certificate pinning might patch it up for a bit longer. Read More Oracle CRM on Demand update focuses on industries Oracle is hoping to differentiate its cloud CRM (customer relationship management) software from that sold by rivals such as Salesforce.com with a new set of industry-specific capabilities. Read More VGA ports bowing out of home computers, lingering in the workplace After more than 25 years the venerable VGA port is finally disappearing from computers, but the interface is proving tough to phase out completely and will linger for years in projectors, monitors and TV sets. Read More Box raises $125M in mostly private equity funds Box has received $125 million in funding, an infusion the company will use to boost its international expansion and strengthen its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration, storage, file-sharing and content management software. Read More Preston Gralla: Five reasons Microsoft's new cloud-based Outlook.com beats Windows 8 Mail Microsoft just released a preview version of its new cloud-based Outlook.com email service, and it's a winner, much better than Windows 8's underpowered Mail app. Here are five reasons it beats Windows 8 mail. Read More JR Raphael: Google Now revisited: One month with Android's new secret weapon Google Now shows off the power of what a Google-made platform can do -- and what we're seeing in Android 4.1 today is only the tip of the iceberg. Read More
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