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	Microsoft starts taking orders for $14.99 Windows 8 upgrade Microsoft on Monday began taking orders for the $14.99 Windows 8 upgrade promised to customers who purchased a new Windows 7-powered PC in the last 11 weeks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Verizon Cloud Solutions for business. Improve time to market. Scale capacity to demand. Simplify the deployment of apps. Reduce capital investment. Control operating costs. Cloud Solutions from Verizon can enhance your competitive advantage and improve IT flexibility. And since you only pay for the capacity you need, you're more agile and better equipped to support changing demands. Click to continue In this Issue Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook review: Strong, lightweight and elite NASA unveils mission to probe Mars' core Harvard stores 70 billion books using DNA Whistleblower to continue helping U.S. Infosys probe NASA's Mars Curiosity stretches robotic arm for first time Apple vs. Samsung jury to face 700+ questions on verdict form In America's Cup, Oracle Team USA looks for high tech advantage SAP sues insurer over Waste Management lawsuit settlement ICANN expects gTLD applications processing to start December Quest extends access control to unstructured data Richi Jennings: Anonymous fights for 'rapist' Assange in #OpFreeAssange DDoS RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook review: Strong, lightweight and elite Lenovo's new ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook is fast, stylish and lightweight, although the price is slightly higher than some of its rivals. Read More NASA unveils mission to probe Mars' core NASA has decided to take a much deeper look inside Mars to try to figure out why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth. Read More Harvard stores 70 billion books using DNA Using DNA as the medium, Harvard researchers were able to store 1,000 times more information into double helices than had previously been achieved, according to a paper published last week in Science. Read More Whistleblower to continue helping U.S. Infosys probe A federal court decision on Monday to throw out a civil lawsuit against Infosys is a clear loss for the plaintiff, Jay Palmer. But it isn't much of a win for Infosys. Read More NASA's Mars Curiosity stretches robotic arm for first time NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday Apple vs. Samsung jury to face 700+ questions on verdict form Imagine the longest, most complex government form you've ever had to fill out and you start to have an idea what jurors will face as they begin to consider their verdict in the patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung. Read More In America's Cup, Oracle Team USA looks for high tech advantage Forget the fastest sail boat, next year's America's Cup could come down to who has the fastest computer. Read More SAP sues insurer over Waste Management lawsuit settlement SAP is suing insurer Swiss Re International, claiming that the company has refused to pay its share of an $80 million settlement with Waste Management, which had brought suit against SAP in 2008 over a troubled software project. Read More ICANN expects gTLD applications processing to start December The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it would take up to December to come up with a process for handling the large number of applications for gTLDs (generic top-level domains). Read More Quest extends access control to unstructured data Extending its line of identity management software, Quest Software has released an application to help administrators more easily control who accesses documents on the corporate network. Read More Richi Jennings: Anonymous fights for 'rapist' Assange in #OpFreeAssange DDoS Anonymous has been nuking websites of those it disagrees with again. This time, it's British government sites, in protesting the treatment of Julian Assange. Facing allegations of rape in Sweden, the UK government wants to extradite him, but he's claimed political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers expect them. Read More
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