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	10 free Drupal modules that make development easier Working with Drupal is not for the timid -- but these 10 free modules could make things easier for developers and administrators. Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat The Five Must-Haves of Big Data Storage Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 2:00 PM EST Join this webinar to learn four distinct factors contributing to the challenge of storing big data including volume, variety, scale, and portability. We'll also cover the five elements a storage system must have in order to meet these challenges. View Now In this Issue Walmart, jobs and the rise of self-service checkout tech A restaurant firm turns to iPads, automation -- and more hiring NASA to Mars rover Curiosity: Drill, baby, drill AMD gets restraining order against former employees in trade secrets lawsuit Healthcare groups question pace of eHealth records rollout Congresswoman proposes computer fraud law amendment to honor Aaron Swartz Update: This Nevada man doesn't have your lost cellphone Think tank presses Blue Coat over censorship concerns Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives AT&T adds Polycom gear to its Business Exchange service Smart energy IT market growing quickly Sharon Machlis: 6 tips to make Windows 8 less annoying Ravi Krishnan: The four rungs of the healthcare IT value ladder Richi Jennings: Microsoft Surface sales seem slack, says UBS, spelling silence for Windows RT? WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing In this IDG Tech Dossier, learn how utility storage makes for massive consolidation, flexibility and scalability, so IT departments can reduce storage infrastructure and lower costs while improving their ability to respond to fast-changing needs of business units. Learn more. Walmart, jobs and the rise of self-service checkout tech Walmart this year plans to install 10,000 self-service kiosks in hundreds of stores. But even as it moves ahead, other retailers are bailing on the technology. Read More A restaurant firm turns to iPads, automation -- and more hiring OTG Management, which runs restaurants and other concessions in airports, has found that using iPads and self-service tech can be good for business. And it doesn't cost jobs. Read More NASA to Mars rover Curiosity: Drill, baby, drill After about five months on the Martian surface, NASA's rover Curiosity is preparing to drill its first rock on Mars. Read More AMD gets restraining order against former employees in trade secrets lawsuit Advanced Micro Devices has been granted by a court in Massachusetts a temporary restraining order against four former employees, three of whom are alleged to have left the company to join Nvidia with confidential documents and trade secrets. Read More Healthcare groups question pace of eHealth records rollout The AMA and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives this week voiced concerns over the pace set by the U.S. government for healthcare organizations to adopt EHRs. Read More Congresswoman proposes computer fraud law amendment to honor Aaron Swartz A draft bill to exclude terms of service violations from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read More Update: This Nevada man doesn't have your lost cellphone A resident of North Las Vegas, Nev., says owners of lost cell phones have repeatedly shown up at his house demanding phones that they tracked via software to his location. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Get the Most Out of Your B2B Community Watch this webinar to find out how IBM B2B Cloud Services provide the capabilities you need to synchronize your value chain. Get insight into the current vision for IBM B2B Cloud Services solutions, and find out how leading organizations are using new solutions to get results faster. Learn More Think tank presses Blue Coat over censorship concerns A Canadian think tank called on Tuesday for continued scrutiny of U.S. security vendor Blue Coat Systems after a new technical analysis showed wide use of its products in countries with human rights and censorship concerns. Read More Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Read More AT&T adds Polycom gear to its Business Exchange service AT&T will expand its Business Exchange collaboration service by adding Polycom back-end infrastructure to complement the Cisco Systems technology it's been using for several years. Read More Smart energy IT market growing quickly Revenue in the IT segment of the world's smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23 percent, to US$9.4 billion, in 2012, in support of smart grid deployments, according to a new study. Read More Sharon Machlis: 6 tips to make Windows 8 less annoying Windows 8 may be useful for tablets and other touch-screen displays, but it isn't exactly optimized out of the box for keyboard and mouse. Here's how to make the most of Windows 8 on a PC or laptop. Read More Ravi Krishnan: The four rungs of the healthcare IT value ladder Being a health IT professional can be an incredibly rewarding job. I'm proud of the role my peers and I play in building and innovating the future of health care. Especially because the ultimate goal in the work that we do is to improve the care that patients receive, which of course includes ourselves, our families, and our friends. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft Surface sales seem slack, says UBS, spelling silence for Windows RT? The Surface RT tablet sold 'only' 1 million last year, estimates a UBS analyst. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) says it's 'pleased,' but many commentators predict a premature demise for its ill-fated Windows RT operating system. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder why they'd buy a limited, ARM tablet, when they could have a full-fat, compatible Atom one. Read More
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