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	Blackberry CEO's comments ignite debate on future of personal computing BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins' prediction that tablets would decline in popularity provoked debate on what will happen over the next five to 10 years to smartphones, tablets and laptops -- even wearable computers -- and what devices users might eventually prefer. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Showcase Your Company's Leadership Share your story and gain recognition for your leadership. Nominations are now being accepted for the first annual VMware Innovation Awards, produced by Computerworld. Categories include: Cloud, Mobility, Software-Defined Data Center, Transforming the Workforce with New Tech. Learn more. In this Issue BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go Printers, routers used as bots in DDoS attacks Dunkin' Donuts brews up strong social response to Boston bombings Think tablets are popular? Shipments explode in first quarter Groups denounce FBI plan to require Internet backdoors for wiretaps Action! Big Blue enters film biz with atomic movie Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance Microsoft's browser auto-update pays off as IE10 share doubles AT&T to carry LG Optimus G Pro for $200 and contract May 10 Preston Gralla: Apple drinks the Microsoft Kool Aid, bases iOS 7 on Windows 8 "Metro" WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job Bring-your-own-device strategies are the single most radical change to the economics and culture of client computing in a decade, according to a new study by Gartner. Read More Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, data published today showed. Read More Printers, routers used as bots in DDoS attacks Printers, routers, IP cameras, sensors and other Internet-connected devices are increasingly used to launch large distributed denial of service attacks, security firm Prolexic warned in a report this week. Read More Dunkin' Donuts brews up strong social response to Boston bombings When Dunkin' Donuts executives were deciding how to respond on Twitter and Facebook to the Boston Marathon bombings, they acted like what they are - members of a grieving Boston community. Read More Think tablets are popular? Shipments explode in first quarter Tablet shipments exploded by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said. Read More WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation The Value of Shared SSDs in Enterprise Computing With Mt. Rainier Accelerator technology, QLogic delivers a unique solution set that is optimized to address the growing performance gap between what today's processors can compute and what the storage I/O subsystem can deliver. Read Now! Groups denounce FBI plan to require Internet backdoors for wiretaps Privacy groups are denouncing a federal government move to force Internet companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors that would let the FBI and other agencies snoop in on real time online communications. Read More Action! Big Blue enters film biz with atomic movie IBM enters Guinness Book with world's smallest stop-motion movie made with atoms. Read More Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance Before turning to the world of cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble. This was perhaps most true at the car dealer, where the quality of new cars was so random that buyers began to demand to know the day a car rolled off the assembly line. Read More Microsoft's browser auto-update pays off as IE10 share doubles Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. Read More AT&T to carry LG Optimus G Pro for $200 and contract May 10 AT&T will exclusively sell the 5.5-in., quad-core LG Optimus G Pro smartphone starting May 10 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, the two companies announced Wednesday. Read More Preston Gralla: Apple drinks the Microsoft Kool Aid, bases iOS 7 on Windows 8 "Metro" Apple, the aficiando of all things cool, is throwing away its old-style iOS interface in favor of the flat design pioneered by Microsoft in Windows 8 and Windows Phone. So say several reports. Could the move backfire and help Microsoft gain on Apple? Read More
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