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	Microsoft retreats from Office 2013 restrictive licensing Microsoft today backpedaled from a sweeping change in its licensing for retail copies of Office 2013, saying that customers now have the right to move the software from one machine to another. Read More WHITE PAPER: Autonomy Cloud Backup and Recovery for Virtual Server Environments Cloud data protection is widely used for physical data protection strategy; but it's benefit can be extended to virtual environment as well. Read this brief white paper to learn more about how cloud backup and recovery can further reduce cost and risks to your organization's critical data. Read Now! In this Issue Facebook's new News Feed wish list includes mobile and highlighted friends Microsoft pulls last lever, discounts Windows 8 to OEMs to spark sales U.S. lawmakers introduce electronic surveillance reform bill EU let Microsoft police itself on browser ballot promises Video: Microsoft fined for not offering browser choice Google+ launches updates to profile, local pages LinkedIn wins dismissal of lawsuit over massive password breach INSIDER How to blunt spear phishing attacks A giant, tethered tablet: Acer shows its Android Display ARM server maker offers cloud service to port x86 code Meet 60GHz Wi-Fi, the insanely fast future of wireless networking Adaptec shows 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI T-Mobile-MetroPCS merger passes key hurdle Samsung tops patent applicants in the EU OCZ aims to improve SQL Server performance with new acceleration card FoundationDB aims to consolidate NoSQL Jonny Evans: Apple's Swatch connection hints at years of iWatch development Preston Gralla: The biggest loser in Microsoft's $732 million European Commission fine may be Google WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now Facebook's new News Feed wish list includes mobile and highlighted friends Facebook is set to unveil an updated News Feed on Thursday and analysts have a wish list of changes that users might welcome. Read More Microsoft pulls last lever, discounts Windows 8 to OEMs to spark sales Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today. Read More U.S. lawmakers introduce electronic surveillance reform bill Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to provide more protection from government surveillance for people who store data in the cloud. Read More EU let Microsoft police itself on browser ballot promises Europe's antitrust agency had put Microsoft on the honor system, letting the company monitor its own compliance with a 2009 settlement that required it to offer other browsers to Windows users, the EU's top regulator admitted. Read More Video: Microsoft fined for not offering browser choice The European Commission fined Microsoft $731 million Wednesday for failing to offer a browser choice page in its upgrade to Windows 7 in 2011. Read More Google+ launches updates to profile, local pages Social network Google+ is launching some tweaks and updates to users' profile pages, as well as enabling local reviews. Read More LinkedIn wins dismissal of lawsuit over massive password breach Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year. Read More INSIDER How to blunt spear phishing attacks According to Allen Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks are the result of successful spear phishing. In other words, somebody received an email and either clicked on a link or opened a file that they weren't supposed to. Read More A giant, tethered tablet: Acer shows its Android Display The Acer DA220HQL looks like a giant Android tablet, with its 1920 x 1080 pixel, 21.5-inch touch screen -- but you wouldn't want to carry it around. Read More 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. ARM server maker offers cloud service to port x86 code ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing x86 applications to work on ARM servers, which can then be tested via a cloud service. Read More Meet 60GHz Wi-Fi, the insanely fast future of wireless networking Get ready for a ridiculous boost in wireless networking speed. Two camps are competing to deliver wireless components that are at least seven times faster than today's gigabit (IEEE 802.11ac) routers. Read More Adaptec shows 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI The arrival of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) at 12Gbps will be a boon for demanding applications such as databases, according to Adaptec by PMC, which is demonstrating the technology at Cebit. Read More T-Mobile-MetroPCS merger passes key hurdle T-Mobile USA is drawing closer to finishing its merger with MetroPCS Wireless as a deadline for action by the U.S. Department of Justice passed on Tuesday. Read More Samsung tops patent applicants in the EU Samsung filed the most patent applications in Europe last year according figures released by the European Patent Office (EPO) on Wednesday. Read More OCZ aims to improve SQL Server performance with new acceleration card OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. Read More FoundationDB aims to consolidate NoSQL In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the scalability and speed of NoSQL. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Swatch connection hints at years of iWatch development An accumulation of evidence suggests Apple has been in direct and indirect contact with watch-making companies for years, which in turn suggests it has been assembling its plans to create new breeds of connected and miniaturized device for many years. Read More Preston Gralla: The biggest loser in Microsoft's $732 million European Commission fine may be Google The $732 million Microsoft has agreed to pay for violating its ant-trust agreement about browser choice may be a black eye and financial whack for Microsoft. But the real loser may be Google, because the agreement signals that the E.U. will may be taking a harder line in anti-trust actions -- and it's got Google's core business in its sights. Read More
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