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	Citigroup cutting IT jobs, shifting some work offshore Citigroup is cutting 11,000 jobs, many in IT, as part of a restructuring announced Wednesday. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. In this Issue Visual tour: Is a picture worth a thousand gigabytes? JR Raphael: Android 4.2 random reboots: What's going on? NASA to extend Mars exploration with another robotic rover Photos a casualty of Instagram feud with Twitter FTC bars advertising firm from sniffing browser histories Google revamps Gmail for iPhone, iPad; adds multiple account support Apple boosts iOS iWork suite's Office doc compatibility Apple, Samsung head back to court on Thursday AT&T on track for record smartphone sales in 4th quarter iPhone 5's launch leads to 33% spike in AppStore downloads SAP retools research strategy; now focused on internal startups Washington, Massachusetts among most broadband-friendly states AT&T launches free text messaging service for shoppers Skype confirms video messaging feature with legal change Motorola streamlines Wi-Fi access with social networking accounts Update: EU fines CRT makers $1.92B for price-fixing Jonny Evans: LeWeb: Ex-Apple execs talk Steve Jobs and product design Preston Gralla: Windows XP users: Your OS will retire; it's time to give up and join the real world Robert L. Mitchell: Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity WEBCAST: LogiXML Enhance Transparency in Private Equity & Alternatives Learn how Neuberger Berman met growing customer demand by enhancing reporting. Using agile BI technology, the company was able to quickly build an on-demand portal enabling investors to view real-time indicators such as Net Asset Value, diversification, and geographic performance. Learn More. Visual tour: Is a picture worth a thousand gigabytes? An ambitious and attractive new large-format book, "The Human Face of Big Data," shows how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Read More JR Raphael: Android 4.2 random reboots: What's going on? Google's Android 4.2 release introduces some interesting new features, but it also introduces some pesky new bugs -- including one that causes devices to randomly reboot. So what gives? Read More NASA to extend Mars exploration with another robotic rover NASA today announced plans to extend its work on Mars and even send up another robotic rover in 2020. Read More Photos a casualty of Instagram feud with Twitter Twitter and Instagram are feuding, with Instagram going so far as to disable a feature that leaves pictures difficult to view on Twitter. Read More FTC bars advertising firm from sniffing browser histories An online advertising firm accused of spying on the browser histories of consumers has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission barring it from further browser history sniffing, the agency announced. Read More Google revamps Gmail for iPhone, iPad; adds multiple account support Google on Tuesday rolled out version 2.0 of Gmail for iOS, a redesigned upgrade that supports up to five email accounts on Apple's iPhone and iPad. Read More Apple boosts iOS iWork suite's Office doc compatibility Apple yesterday updated its iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- for the iPad and iPhone, beefing up compatibility with Microsoft's Office. Read More Apple, Samsung head back to court on Thursday Apple and Samsung will return on Thursday to the San Jose courtroom where they battled over cell phone patents earlier this year, and Apple subsequently won damages of $1.05 billion. Read More AT&T on track for record smartphone sales in 4th quarter AT&T is on pace to sell a record number of smartphones in the fourth quarter, with strong sales of the iPhone 5 and Android phones such as the LG Optimus G and HTC One X, AT&T Mobile CEO Ralph de la Vega said today Read More WEBCAST: Enterprise Device Alliance Managing Mobile Devices–IT Speaks About the Issues How are enterprise IT professionals providing secure, reliable access for mobile users in their organizations? Learn more. iPhone 5's launch leads to 33% spike in AppStore downloads Every time a new iPhone launches, AppStore downloads soar -- and app developers cheer. Read More SAP retools research strategy; now focused on internal startups SAP has turned heads in recent years with a number of high-profile acquisitions, scooping up SuccessFactors, Sybase and Ariba for more than $13 billion collectively. But company executives also maintain they intend to increase revenues through aggressive organic growth. Read More Washington, Massachusetts among most broadband-friendly states The U.S. states of Washington, Massachusetts and Delaware have made the most progress in promoting broadband and in providing a broadband-friendly business climate, according to a new study by trade group TechNet. Read More AT&T launches free text messaging service for shoppers AT&T Wednesday kicked-off a free text messaging alert service designed to help retail customers find discounts and promotions at nearby stores. Read More Skype confirms video messaging feature with legal change Skype hasn't officially confirmed rumors of a video messaging service that's supposed to be coming to its platform, but an update to its terms of service on Wednesday did the job. Read More Motorola streamlines Wi-Fi access with social networking accounts Motorola Solutions has unveiled a pair of quasi-cloud services that make it simpler for IT groups to set up secure connections for guest Wi-Fi users, including those with personally-owned devices, on corporate or retail wireless LANs. Read More Update: EU fines CRT makers $1.92B for price-fixing Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price cathode-ray tubes in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. Read More Jonny Evans: LeWeb: Ex-Apple execs talk Steve Jobs and product design There's a host of interesting insights for Apple watchers emerging from LeWeb this week, where iPod Daddy, Tony Fadell, discussed the smart home and Apple's recently departed European vice president, Pascal Cagni, revealed he got his job because he "wasn't a salesman, but a product guy", and hinted the company won't get into the smart home just yet... Read More Preston Gralla: Windows XP users: Your OS will retire; it's time to give up and join the real world Some experts have questioned whether Microsoft will really end support, bug fixes, and security patches for Windows XP on April 8, 2014, as it has previously announced. My guess is that Microsoft will stick to its guns. And so it's finally time for the XP holdouts to join the real world. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity Today Facebook knows your identity. Tomorrow Facebook may very well be your identity. Before long, enterprise identity and access management may key off of social media identities rather than remaining an island unto itself. Are you prepared? That's the message that Gartner analyst Earl Perkins passed on to attendees at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference last month. Read More
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