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	Microsoft retreats from Office 2013 restrictive licensing Microsoft 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: Mimecast North America Inc The Total Cost of Email In this white paper, we'll explore the true costs of fragmented email management and uncover how to reduce those costs with a cloud-based solution for email management. Learn More. In this Issue Hot technologies to watch: Augmented reality and 3D printing Richi Jennings: Microsoft fined $732M in anti-trust euro-SNAFU Following hack, Evernote speeds move to two-factor authentication Pocket lets you shelve items to read and watch when the time is right Gartner: CRM software top priority for IT spending in 2013-14 VMware Horizon Mirage adds app layering for modular desktops Oracle pulls Java 6 plug, but Apple likely to keep patching OS X Snow Leopard Twitter pulls plug on TweetDeck for Android, iPhone WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Introduction to Red Hat Storage Architecture Over the past ten years, enterprises have seen enormous gains in scalability, flexibility, and affordability as they migrated from proprietary, monolithic server architectures to architectures that are virtualized, open source, standardized, and commoditized. Unfortunately, storage has not kept pace with computing. Learn More Hot technologies to watch: Augmented reality and 3D printing Augmented reality and 3D printing are the hottest emerging technologies to watch, according to Tom Soderstrom, chief technology officer for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft fined $732M in anti-trust euro-SNAFU Is Steve Ballmer worried for his job? Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been fined €561 million by European regulators. It failed to comply with a monopoly-busting agreement to offer a browser ballot screen in Windows 7. The first service pack broke it, 'by accident.' In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the popcorn. Read More Following hack, Evernote speeds move to two-factor authentication Evernote is speeding up its plans to offer two-factor authentication to users following a recent data breach that exposed user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Read More Pocket lets you shelve items to read and watch when the time is right The Internet is a distracting place. Cat videos, recipes, and interesting blog posts all conspire to steal our focus and distract us from whatever we've set out to do in the first place. One way you can deal with this constant barrage of brain candy by blocking it out with procrastination-curbing applications such as Cold Turkey. Another possible way is to save all those interesting distractions for later, carrying on with your day secure in the knowledge you'll get to them when the time is right. If that sort of distraction management appeals to you, you're going to like free Web-based service Pocket. Read More WHITE PAPER: Service-now.com Guide to Social IT Basics When IT organizations utilize social media, it can efficiently help more people inside and outside the data center quickly access more services and knowledge. Read Now! Gartner: CRM software top priority for IT spending in 2013-14 CRM (customer relationship management) software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications around the world this year and next, according to newly released data from analyst firm Gartner. Read More VMware Horizon Mirage adds app layering for modular desktops VMware's Horizon Mirage 4.0 allows IT departments to be more flexible when they put together centrally managed desktop images using separated application packages. Read More Oracle pulls Java 6 plug, but Apple likely to keep patching OS X Snow Leopard Apple patched Java 6 for OS X, following Oracle's lead and quashing a browser plug-in vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting. Read More Twitter pulls plug on TweetDeck for Android, iPhone Twitter will end support for TweetDeck on the iPhone and Android in order to focus solely on browser-based versions for those platforms. And it is also apparently dumping Facebook. Read More
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