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	Senators' effort to add Internet sales tax to defense bill falls short An effort by three U.S. senators to add an Internet sales tax amendment to a military spending bill has failed, at least for now. Read More WHITE PAPER: Service-now.com Drive More Value from Your IT Assets You can make your life simpler when you automate your entire IT Asset Management (ITAM) lifecycle and Software Asset Management (SAM) in one system of record. Read Now! In this Issue Don't be a Scrooge with at-work holiday shoppers Google buys parcel storage service BufferBox Cyber Monday smashes online sales record Black Friday surpasses $1B in online sales iPad grabs top spot as preferred Black Friday shopping tool Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20 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. Don't be a Scrooge with at-work holiday shoppers Now that holiday gift-buying season is under way, IT managers should be prepared for a fair amount of that shopping being done at work. Read More Google buys parcel storage service BufferBox Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers temporary storage lockers where people can receive online purchases when they're not at home. Read More Cyber Monday smashes online sales record Cyber Monday 2012 was the biggest online shopping day in history, according to multiple sources. Read More WHITE PAPER: Innotas The Smart Approach to IT Resource Management This whitepaper from Innotas- the leader in cloud solutions for Project Portfolio and Application Portfolio Management - identifies why effective resource management is crucial for any IT department. Read Now! Black Friday surpasses $1B in online sales Online sales for Black Friday topped $1 billion for the first time, according to online tracker comScore. Read More iPad grabs top spot as preferred Black Friday shopping tool Apple retained its stranglehold on mobile shopping over the two-day stretch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the U.S., IBM said. Read More Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20 In the fast moving world of technology, there are perhaps few things that have proved as resistant to change as the simple SMS text message. Read More
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