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	JR Raphael: Samsung spills the beans on its Android 4.1 upgrade plans Will your Samsung device get upgraded to Android 4.1, a.k.a. Jelly Bean? Grab your nearest lucky charm and click through to find out. Read More 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 > In this Issue Darlene Storm: Law enforcement to identify & store millions of voices via Russian biometric software Richi Jennings: Facebook privacy fears: Timeline trash or French farce? Jonny Evans: Apple sells 5 million iPhones as mapping services slowly improve Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines Patrick Thibodeau: Are data centers toxic? Preston Gralla: Microsoft: We hate conservative pundit Ann Coulter ... oops, never mind Shark Tank: If you do it right, the response is The Facepalm WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Endpoint Buyers Guide This buyers guide provides independent research and test results to help you determine your endpoint protection requirements and identify the security vendor that best meets your needs. Learn more. Darlene Storm: Law enforcement to identify & store millions of voices via Russian biometric software 'Your call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.' Your voiceprint may have been passively collected for a voice recognition biometric data system via voicemail or recordings made while talking to commercial service providers like banks, cell phone companies and cable TV companies. A US 'State Justice Agency' committed to deploy a pilot system for 'studies' using Russian SpeechPro voice recognition software that can match millions of voices to identities. It can store 2 million samples. Law enforcement was provided with voice data collection tips, but VoiceGrid Nation needs only a minimum of 3 seconds for speech pattern analysis. In 5 seconds, it can search/match in 10,000 voice samples. Read More Richi Jennings: Facebook privacy fears: Timeline trash or French farce? French Facebook users -- and others around the world -- complain that private messages are appearing on their walls. Zut alors! Is this a privacy faux pas, or just a mass misunderstanding? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to get to bottom of it. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple sells 5 million iPhones as mapping services slowly improve Despite the absence of NFC, Apple sold five million units of the iPhone 5 in just three days, as pent-up demand is unleashed on Cupertino's smartphone, and is rapidly impementing user reports of inaccuracies within Maps. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines Microsoft burned burned milllions of watts of electricity unnecessarily so it could avoid paying a fine for overestimating electricity use, according to the New York Times. The Times, which took an in-depth look at the company's data centers, reports other troubling issues, including a review under California's Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Program. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Are data centers toxic? The New York Times is getting criticism over its data center series. Beginning the series with a 2006 anecdote about a near server meltdown at Facebook, three processor generations ago, was not an auspicious beginning. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft: We hate conservative pundit Ann Coulter ... oops, never mind Microsoft for a moment this weekend seemed to weigh into the cultural wars, criticizing controversial conservative pundit Ann Coulter with a tweet, before deleting it and apologizing. Apparently, it was a private tweet sent by a Microsoft employee, who mistakenly sent it out via Microsoft's official Twitter account. Read More Shark Tank: If you do it right, the response is The Facepalm This IT pilot fish is on assignment in a foreign country to integrate a new subsidiary into the corporate systems -- and he finally gets a chance to do The Look. Read More
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