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	NASA breach update: Stolen laptop had data on 10,000 users Personally identifiable information of "at least" 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month's theft of an agency laptop, a spokesman said Thursday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP Take your business anywhere with SAP What could a truly integrated mobile strategy do for your business? Find out with the SAP Mobile App Advisor. This friendly virtual assistant will help you zero in on the apps and background resources that can give your business the full power of enterprise mobility. Discover the full potential of taking your business mobile. Start using the SAP Mobile App Advisor now! In this Issue Mozilla's search revenue jumps 31%, likely due to nearly $1B Google deal Mobile workers health threatened by spending weekends online Google sandboxes Flash in Chrome for OS X NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope continues mission Windows 8 tablets need more apps, but OS will eventually outpace Android, SAP exec says Proof-of-concept malware can share USB smart card readers with attackers over Internet Apple faces EU-wide probes into misleading warranty practices Google will not be prosecuted for Street View Wi-Fi sniffing in Germany Florida CIO Takes Election to the Cloud HP targets new Proliant SL4500 server at distributed environments TomTom opens portal for rapid location-based app development Cisco, Qualcomm join to make better use of Wi-Fi in stores and venues Brightcove, Application Craft, launch cloud-based development tools IBM offers $4 billion in credit through partners Robert L. Mitchell: Higher ed's high-tech headache JR Raphael: Get a world clock on your Android 4.2 lock screen Jonny Evans: Microsoft's Ballmer says Windows can dance between Android and iPhone. Really? Darlene Storm: Hacking threats to big screen smart TVs & best holiday TV deals Preston Gralla: HP's PC boss: Surface tablet is 'slow,' 'kludgy' and 'expensive' WEBCAST: VMware A Quick-Start Guide to Disaster Recovery This guide unpacks the myths about disaster recovery and offers best-practices advice on protecting your valuable IT assets. Learn how VMware can keep you prepared. View Now! Mozilla's search revenue jumps 31%, likely due to nearly $1B Google deal Mozilla today said that income from search partners climbed 31% last year, hinting at the reportedly lucrative deal the open-source foundation struck with fierce browser rival Google. Read More Mobile workers health threatened by spending weekends online A new survey found 63% of mobile workers are spending at least six hours each weekend online -- and nearly one-third are online for up to 20 hours over the two days. Read More Google sandboxes Flash in Chrome for OS X Google has shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome, making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Read More NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope continues mission NASA's space hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope, has wrapped up its prime mission and is moving into an extended four-year plan to continue searching for other worlds. Read More Windows 8 tablets need more apps, but OS will eventually outpace Android, SAP exec says Windows 8 might, or might not, prove to be a big hit with enterprise customers. But SAP is betting it will become an important platform in the workplace, an SAP executive said Thursday Read More Proof-of-concept malware can share USB smart card readers with attackers over Internet A team of researchers have created a proof-of-concept piece of malware that can give attackers control of USB smart card readers attached to an infected Windows computer over the Internet. Read More Apple faces EU-wide probes into misleading warranty practices Apple's warranty offerings could be pulled in the European Union after it emerged that the E.U. Justice Commissioner has asked member states to look into possible misselling. Read More Google will not be prosecuted for Street View Wi-Fi sniffing in Germany The public prosecutor in Hamburg has decided not to start a criminal investigation into the way Googles' Street View cars gathered data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in Germany, the lawyer who requested the inquiry said Thursday. Read More Florida CIO Takes Election to the Cloud On election night, as the rest of us again wondered what was going wrong in Florida, the CIO of Florida's Department of State had a different perspective: He was bearing witness to the successful culmination of 17 months of hard work. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) The Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) specification defines a simple, RESTful protocol for identity account management operations. Learn More! HP targets new Proliant SL4500 server at distributed environments Hewlett-Packard is taking a step away from traditional server design with the new Proliant SL4500 server, which mixes processing, networking and storage units to optimize performance of applications like OpenStack and Hadoop. Read More TomTom opens portal for rapid location-based app development Navigation technology provider TomTom announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services (LBS) in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other businesses. Read More Cisco, Qualcomm join to make better use of Wi-Fi in stores and venues Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are putting their considerable wireless weight behind a system to make it easier for retail stores and other venues to offer information to visitors over Wi-Fi. Read More Brightcove, Application Craft, launch cloud-based development tools Brightcove's native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft's launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platform development tools for mobile apps are becoming increasingly cloud-centric. Read More IBM offers $4 billion in credit through partners IBM is offering $4 billion in new credit to customers through its partner channel, and has also developed a new mobile application to help them get financing quickly, the company announced Thursday. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Higher ed's high-tech headache Read More JR Raphael: Get a world clock on your Android 4.2 lock screen Want a multicity world clock on your Android 4.2 lock screen? The option is actually built right into the operating system -- and it's really simple to set up. Read More Jonny Evans: Microsoft's Ballmer says Windows can dance between Android and iPhone. Really? Microsoft boss, Steve Ballmer, thinks he can transform his company's smartphone future by dancing between Android and iOS, but will Jony Ive change the game? And will Microsoft take the best of both world's, or the worst? Read More Darlene Storm: Hacking threats to big screen smart TVs & best holiday TV deals Smart TVs are vulnerable to hacking. Can you imagine your "smart" TV being targeted by a zero-day exploit or becoming part of a botnet? How about if the TV manufacturer, an attacker, or even the CIA were to hijack the video camera in the TV? Suddenly, as you watch TV in your undies, it's smile because you're on spying candid camera! Denial of service attacks are possible, so is eavesdropping, and even stealing sensitive personal and financial information stored by TV apps. Here are five smart TV hacking threat scenarios. If you are still inclined to find a holiday steal on a big screen smart TV, then here are also the lowest Black Friday leaked ad prices. Read More Preston Gralla: HP's PC boss: Surface tablet is 'slow,' 'kludgy' and 'expensive' Microsoft partners have had less-than-kind things to say about the RT Surface tablet. And now HP PC honcho Todd Bradley has weighed in with the harshest criticism yet. He calls the tablet "slow," "kludgey" and "expensive." Read More
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