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	Can new smartphones rekindle the BlackBerry fire? 'Not dead yet' could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced Wednesday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Introducing AT&T Enhanced Push-to-Talk. With up to 1,000 contacts and a broad range of devices and platforms, you'll get instant communication -- because your business doesn't have time for lag time. Learn how to get started with free handsets today! In this Issue SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises What Google's Transparency Report doesn't tell us Microsoft revenue up, aided by Windows unit sales, though profit declines Twitter's Vine serves users' inner movie maker Samsung tops smartphone and overall handsets market in Q4 Apple cut ties with Chinese supplier for hiring underage workers Twitter ordered to identify racist tweeters in France AT&T narrows loss, bumps up revenue on smartphone sales Cisco to sell Linksys home networking business to Belkin Acer shedding eMachines, preparing post-PC Gateway and Packard Bell AT&T says it's restored U-verse, will give credits for outage Darlene Storm: Researchers exploit flaw to identify anonymous DNA donors and their families RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Introducing AT&T Enhanced Push-to-Talk. With up to 1,000 contacts and a broad range of devices and platforms, you'll get instant communication -- because your business doesn't have time for lag time. Learn how to get started with free handsets today! SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops. Read More Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that not only hikes the H-1B cap, but allows it to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually. Read More What Google's Transparency Report doesn't tell us Google's Transparency Reports are interesting not only for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they do not reveal. Read More Microsoft revenue up, aided by Windows unit sales, though profit declines Though Microsoft's second-fiscal-quarter profit declined, company revenue increased, helped by its Windows division, where sales shot up more than 20 percent year on year. Read More Twitter's Vine serves users' inner movie maker Twitter announced the launch of Vine, a service that lets mobile users capture and share short, looping videos of six seconds or less. Read More Samsung tops smartphone and overall handsets market in Q4 Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied. Read More WEBCAST: Cloudera Productionizing Hadoop: New Lessons Learned In this webinar video recording Eric Sammer will present how some of the largest Hadoop clusters in the world were successfully "productionized" and best practices for running Hadoop. View Now! Apple cut ties with Chinese supplier for hiring underage workers Apple found 11 facilities within its supply chain using underage labor last year, and went as far to sever ties with one Chinese component maker for failing to prevent the violations. Read More Twitter ordered to identify racist tweeters in France A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over any data that could help authorities there identify people who posted racist and anti-Semitic tweets on its website. Read More AT&T narrows loss, bumps up revenue on smartphone sales AT&T reported a slight increase in revenue and a smaller net loss for the fourth quarter, helped along largely by smartphone and broadband sales. Read More Cisco to sell Linksys home networking business to Belkin Cisco Systems plans to sell its Linksys home networking business to Belkin International for an undisclosed sum under an agreement that includes cooperation between the companies on software, service-provider products and other areas. Read More Acer shedding eMachines, preparing post-PC Gateway and Packard Bell Acer is trying to adapt to the slowdown in the PC market by shutting down its eMachines unit and refocusing Gateway and Packard Bell to offer new products that are "beyond the PC." Read More AT&T says it's restored U-verse, will give credits for outage AT&T said Thursday it had restored its U-verse broadband service to all customers who suffered from a widespread outage this week. Read More Darlene Storm: Researchers exploit flaw to identify anonymous DNA donors and their families There are lots of cool and creepy things happening in the area of DNA. From biological hard drives with a storage density to 2.2 petabytes per gram, to exploiting a vulnerability to expose identities of supposed anonymous genetic donors—and people in their family tree that never donated DNA, to DHS discussing potentially launching a "social conditioning campaign" so people won't freak out about plans to develop and deploy rapid DNA analyzers. Read More
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