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	Could smart gun technology make us safer? Smart gun technology, which can discern between authorized and unauthorized users, has been around for more than a dozen years. Though it has lacked political support in the past, interest may again be building. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue 'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm McAfee Inc. takes reputation beating after founder fled police MIT uses nanotech to make cancer easier to detect Adobe to patch 2-year-old Shockwave flaw next year Google offers free Quickoffice app to Google Apps subscribers Samsung to fix Android device vulnerability Six questions raised by Oracle's Q2 earnings announcement Google to unload Motorola set-top box unit with $2.35B sale to Arris Richi Jennings: What Steven Sinofsky did next: Teach at Harvard! WHITE PAPER: Socialtext 6 Ways to Achieve Business Goals from Social Software This practical guide shows you six different ways to achieve your business goals using social software. It will help you choose the best social software approach for your enterprise - with the right balance of risk and reward - so you can get the business results you're looking for. Read Now! 'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm If you are making a list of tech predictions for next year, as this story does, it may be a good idea to put the solar maximum on this list. The next one is expected in 2013, says NASA. Read More McAfee Inc. takes reputation beating after founder fled police In the wake of his Belize neighbor's unsolved murder, John McAfee's lurch through the news damaged the reputation of his namesake, the security company McAfee Inc., a brand expert said Thursday. Read More MIT uses nanotech to make cancer easier to detect MIT researchers are using nanotechnology to help doctors detect cancer in their patients sooner, increasing their odds of beating the disease. Read More Adobe to patch 2-year-old Shockwave flaw next year Adobe plans in February to close a dangerous hole in its Shockwave application that causes the application to be downgraded when a user launches older multimedia content, allowing hackers to target years-old vulnerabilities. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Office 365: Why the Time is Right for Cloud-based E-mail Is it expensive to run and time-consuming to manage? If your answer is yes, maybe it's time to consider a new approach--a cloud-based solution. Dean Murray of CDW shares insights and expertise on Microsoft 365 and Exchange online, and how CDW can assist you in migrating to this new cloud-based e-mail system. Learn More. Google offers free Quickoffice app to Google Apps subscribers Google has launched a free iPad app to allow its paying business customers to edit Microsoft Office documents. Read More Samsung to fix Android device vulnerability Samsung said Wednesday it is working on an update for a software flaw that could allow attackers to siphon personal data from a phone. Read More Six questions raised by Oracle's Q2 earnings announcement Oracle's second-quarter earnings announcement beat expectations in some respects, but also raised a number of interesting and in some cases, unanswered questions. Here's a look. Read More Google to unload Motorola set-top box unit with $2.35B sale to Arris Google plans to sell the TV set-top box business of its Motorola Mobility subsidiary to Arris Group, a broadband device vendor, for $2.35 billion. Read More Richi Jennings: What Steven Sinofsky did next: Teach at Harvard! Steven Sinofsky announces his latest venture. Sinofsky, who recently left Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) under a cloud, is going to be an Executive in Residence at Harvard Business School. Some call him "abrasive" and "autocratic," while others characterize him as the savior of Windows. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have a heated debate. Read More
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