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	Customers blast Amazon for Surface RT price gouging Amid speculation that Microsoft will soon expand distribution of its Surface RT, giant e-tailer Amazon continues to offer the tablet through partners, who jack up the price or post inflated list prices to claim large savings. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics has the power to significantly improve the bottom line. From better targeting and risk assessment to streamlining operations and optimizing business decisions in all areas, predictive analytics is the next big step toward gaining a competitive edge. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft quashes critical bugs in IE10, Windows 8, Word A year on Twitter highlights U.S. election and tweets from space Microsoft ships Windows Phone 8 update In slap at Instagram, Twitter releases own photo tool Microsoft gives Xbox 360 SkyDrive app, file sharing The scariest software project horror stories of 2012 Dexter malware infects point-of-sale systems worldwide, researchers say Oracle's Database Appliance certified for SAP software Carbonite app enables remote activation of Android cell phone cameras Weather Channel forecasts heavier reliance on cloud computing ZTE to show high-end handset at CES Leigh Jasper: ISO 27001 is the litmus test for information security Preston Gralla: Microsoft and Google as one-percenters: Overseas tax dodges net both companies billions JR Raphael: Top 3 Android phones on Sprint [December 2012] Barbara Krasnoff: Anti-social networking: The new chic? WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Corporation Smarter Business Requires Intelligent Systems This paper discusses the growing adoption of intelligent systems and the role Microsoft, through its Windows Embedded, Windows Azure, and other technologies, can play in developing these systems. Read Now. Microsoft quashes critical bugs in IE10, Windows 8, Word Microsoft today patched a dozen vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Word and Exchange, fixing flaws in the new IE10 for the first time and crushing bugs in Windows 8 and Windows RT for the second month running. Read More A year on Twitter highlights U.S. election and tweets from space The year 2012, according to Twitter, was about politics, lost celebrities, great sports moments and people around the world tweeting all about it. Read More Microsoft ships Windows Phone 8 update Microsoft Tuesday began delivering an update to Windows Phone 8 smartphones that provides unspecified "performance enhancements" that some customers say include an OS fix for random reboots and Wi-Fi enhancements. Read More In slap at Instagram, Twitter releases own photo tool The battle between Twitter and Instagram took another turn late Monday when the social network unveiled its own photo tool. Read More Microsoft gives Xbox 360 SkyDrive app, file sharing The SkyDrive UI on the Xbox offers cross-platform access to apps, photos and videos. Microsoft also plans to deliver more than 40 new apps by next spring. Read More The scariest software project horror stories of 2012 Sure, plenty of enterprise software projects go just fine and end up giving customers all the things vendors promise: lower operating costs, streamlined operations and happier users. Read More Dexter malware infects point-of-sale systems worldwide, researchers say Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of thousands of payment cards. Read More WEBCAST: Samsung Extending Data Center Efficiency with Advanced SSDs This informative webcast explores how new-gen enterprise SSDs deliver faster data access, greater reliability, higher density and better TCO for any data center manager. Learn More Oracle's Database Appliance certified for SAP software Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance, which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata machine aimed at small and medium-size businesses. Read More Carbonite app enables remote activation of Android cell phone cameras Cloud storage provider Carbonite released a mobile app for Android with a new Capture feature that lets a user remotely activate the phones camera to take a picture of the person using the device or its location. Read More Weather Channel forecasts heavier reliance on cloud computing During Hurricane Sandy this fall, The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever. Normally the media company -- which spans television, desktop and mobile platforms -- supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a month. During Sandy, that jumped to 450 million -- nearly double the company's previous high for Web traffic. Read More ZTE to show high-end handset at CES Chinese handset maker ZTE, known for its budget smartphones, will unveil a new high-end device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, marking a change of direction for the company. Read More Leigh Jasper: ISO 27001 is the litmus test for information security With increasing reliance on collaboration tools to improve information management in regulated industries – such as financial services, healthcare and construction – organizations must demand the highest levels of security from their external service providers in order to avoid data breaches and other incidents. Focusing on the physical data center that hosts the online collaboration service provider's application isn't enough. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft and Google as one-percenters: Overseas tax dodges net both companies billions Fresh off a presidential campaign in which overseas tax havens and top earners paying little in taxes were big issues comes evidence that both Microsoft and Google use overseas tax dodges to avoid paying billions in taxes to the U.S. and other countries. It's all legal. But it's not all right. Read More JR Raphael: Top 3 Android phones on Sprint [December 2012] Sprint may not have the most extensive lineup of exciting Android phones right now, but it does have a handful of high-end handsets well worth considering. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Anti-social networking: The new chic? A number of popular social networking services -- many of whom made their names because they could interact with other services, adding their value to the others -- are now pulling in their gangplanks and trying to keep their users onboard their ship and their ship only. Read More
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