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	Microsoft may not want smashing Surface RT tablet sales The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Backup and recovery has become a fundamental part of business and an essential element of information management. This white paper identifies the three big trends that are irreversibly changing how organizations must think about backup and recovery and how to transform your company's future with smarter backup. Read now. In this Issue Kaiser plans to hire 500 for new IT center in Colorado Apple cuts iPad Mini's shipping delays, extends iMac's FTC: Many kids' apps don't disclose what info they share Twitter-Instagram feud heats up as pics disappear Smartphone buyers will benefit from changing chipset market, analysts say AT&T boosts LTE coverage to 113 markets Police-themed ransomware speaks to victims -- literally Ira Winkler: Stupid users, or stupid infosec? Career advice: Promising directions for a tech career Motorola Mobility to close most operations in S. Korea VMware makes a play for developers FCC urges FAA to let passengers run gadgets during takeoff Huawei invests $90M in Finland to build better smartphones Preston Gralla: Microsoft has only 20% of computer market, half of Google and trailing Apple, says Goldman Sachs Nick Evans: The world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators Jonny Evans: 2012: Apple's annus horribilis RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. Kaiser plans to hire 500 for new IT center in Colorado Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has begun hiring about 500 IT professionals to staff its new information technology campus in Englewood, Colo. Read More Apple cuts iPad Mini's shipping delays, extends iMac's Apple has cut the shipping delay of iPad Mini tablets in half for U.S. and Canadian customers, now promising that the devices will ship in one week. Meanwhile, it's increased shipping times for its new iMac desktops. Read More FTC: Many kids' apps don't disclose what info they share Many mobile apps aimed at children collect and share personal data without notifying parents, potentially violating U.S. law, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Monday. Read More Twitter-Instagram feud heats up as pics disappear After disabling an integration tool that made it more difficult to view pictures on Twitter, Instagram has now pulled all of its photos from microblogging site. Read More Smartphone buyers will benefit from changing chipset market, analysts say The mobile chipset market is in a state of flux with a number of key vendors struggling, but analysts say the result of the turmoil will be more advanced high-end smartphones and cheaper low-end devices. Read More AT&T boosts LTE coverage to 113 markets AT&T said it added four new LTE wireless markets on Monday, for a total of 113 markets nationwide. Read More Police-themed ransomware speaks to victims -- literally A new variant of a Trojan program called Reveton that prevents victims from using their computers and displays rogue messages from law enforcement agencies is using localized voice messages to trick victims into paying made-up fines, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro. Read More Ira Winkler: Stupid users, or stupid infosec? When security professionals see stupidity all around them, shouldn't they ask themselves whether it's their own precautions that are lacking? Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Data Dedupe Takes Tiered Storage to New Efficiency Levels Learn how Data Domain integrates with existing backup software and processes, dramatically reduces the amount of data transferred over the network yet maintains high performance while executing data deduplication. Read now. Career advice: Promising directions for a tech career Premier 100 IT Leader Dave Bellai also answers a question on getting a master's degree. Read More Motorola Mobility to close most operations in S. Korea Motorola Mobility will close down most operations in South Korea in 2013 as part of an ongoing restructuring under Google ownership. Read More VMware makes a play for developers Pivotal Initiative lumps multiple app dev, big data and cloud efforts under a single umbrella Read More FCC urges FAA to let passengers run gadgets during takeoff Airplane passengers aren't the only ones fed up with restrictions on the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Read More Huawei invests $90M in Finland to build better smartphones Huawei Technologies will invest more than $90 million over a five-year period to establish a research and development center in Helsinki, Finland. Its first task will be to build software for smartphones and tablets based on Android and Windows Phone 8. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft has only 20% of computer market, half of Google and trailing Apple, says Goldman Sachs Microsoft's total market share for computers including tablets and smartphones has plummeted from 97% to 20%, and by the end of this year its market share will be less than half of Google's, and will trail Apple's. So says Goldman Sachs in a recent report. Read More Nick Evans: The world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators Every year, we see a number of publications issue their top 50 lists of the world's most innovative companies. Looking back across 2012, I wanted to find out which companies ranked "Best of the Best Innovators" across all of these top 50 lists by combining them to gain a broader perspective that leverages the unique evaluation criteria of each individual study. Read More Jonny Evans: 2012: Apple's annus horribilis It should have been another great year as Apple emerged from mourning the loss of its great leader, Steve Jobs, equipped with a raft of exciting new product ideas -- but sadly 2012 became Apple's annus horribilis. Read More
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