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	Google's Sergey Brin rips smartphones, shows off Glass Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and head of the company's Glass project, said the computerized eyeglasses are more masculine than smartphones. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Announcing exciting new server flash products You don't want to miss this live broadcast featuring extreme flash product testing! Join EMC on Tuesday, March 5 when we announce exciting new server flash products. Find out how your environment can benefit from extreme flash performance. Get real-time answers to all your product questions from our flash technology experts. In this Issue U.S. Mac sales make small rebound EU to fine Microsoft over browser ballot fiasco, says report 'Search is still in its infancy,' says Google CFO Pope Benedict sends farewell tweet before leaving Vatican NASA, SpaceX set for launch to space station on Friday Five smartphone and tablet trends from Mobile World Congress Video: MWC2013: World Tech Update, February 28, 2013 Mobile carriers, vendors eager to virtualize networks EU privacy taskforce plan to take action against Google ARM CEO hopeful about Windows RT Preston Gralla: Microsoft, Apple, and Google agree: The federal ban against gay marriage must go JR Raphael: Putting the Chromebook Pixel in perspective Jonny Evans: UK judge who questioned Apple's integrity gets a job with Samsung WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Addressing the Broken State of Backup Check out the new report featuring Gartner Research, "Addressing the Broken State of Backup". Find out how to get faster, more reliable backup and disaster recovery by modernizing your backup systems. Learn more. U.S. Mac sales make small rebound Apple's U.S. retail Mac sales were up for the first month of the quarter, but not to the extent recently claimed by a Wall Street analyst, the NPD Group said today. Read More EU to fine Microsoft over browser ballot fiasco, says report European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a fine before the end of March for failing to offer customers a browser choice screen, according to a report today by the Reuters news service. Read More 'Search is still in its infancy,' says Google CFO The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. Read More Pope Benedict sends farewell tweet before leaving Vatican Before Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican for retirement today, he offered a farewell tweet. Read More NASA, SpaceX set for launch to space station on Friday The second U.S. commercial space flight to resupply the International Space Station is set for launch Friday morning. Read More Five smartphone and tablet trends from Mobile World Congress This year's MWC may have been lacking in high-end smartphone launches, but the "W" stands for "world" and lower-cost models shown this week are needed to open up the mobile-phone market to more people globally. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault The Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault contains concise videos on topics related to running Microsoft Exchange in a virtualized environment. View Now! Video: MWC2013: World Tech Update, February 28, 2013 Coming up on WTU this week we're at Mobile World Congress with the new Firefox OS, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and an eagle cam from Germany's Fraunhofer. Read More Mobile carriers, vendors eager to virtualize networks There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carriers and equipment vendors say. Read More EU privacy taskforce plan to take action against Google European privacy authorities approved a plan to come up with measures to curb Google's collection, combination and storage of its users' personal information before the summer. Read More ARM CEO hopeful about Windows RT Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft, Apple, and Google agree: The federal ban against gay marriage must go Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other tech giants rarely agree on anything. But they all agree on this: The Supreme Court should rule that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which for federal purposes defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional. Read More JR Raphael: Putting the Chromebook Pixel in perspective The Chromebook Pixel isn't your average computer -- so why did Google make such a costly cloud-centric device? Believe it or not, it actually makes a lot of sense. Read More Jonny Evans: UK judge who questioned Apple's integrity gets a job with Samsung One of the UK Judges who got global attention when he declared Apple [AAPL] should publish a UK press ad and website page saying Samsung did not copy its products has found himself a new job -- working for Samsung, FOSS Patents reports. Read More
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