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	IT's new concern: 'Bring your own cloud' As personal and professional clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference Consumerize today...or fall behind tomorrow Mobile. Cloud. BYOD. Social Media. They're transforming business right now. Don't miss the boat. Attend Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) June 2-4, 2013 in San Francisco and learn how leading minds at companies just like yours are embracing consumer technologies and managing the transition to give them an edge. Learn more at www.citeconference.com In this Issue House bill would mandate guns with .007-style smart tech Microsoft software satisfaction slumps Storms test Red Cross' Tornado app Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive Despite Schmidt's timeline, Google may ship Glass in 2013 Toshiba shrinks 64Gbit flash chips, but still lags Samsung Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train The good, the bad and the ugly of Tumblr under Yahoo Google Checkout to shut down in November Sprint gets SoftBank clearance to negotiate with Dish Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage Canadian regulator takes lighter view of Bitcoin Steve Pate: PCI forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of compliance Jonny Evans: Google threatens Apple's brand leadership as Samsung's Galaxy shines WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Getting Ahead Managing VoIP and Videoconferencing Can the move to UC be just another simple technology transition? End users expect these technologies to look, act and behave just as their non-IP predecessors. But for IT teams it brings very real, new requirements. Learn VoIP and video success strategies from Jim Frey, an Enterprise Management Associates analyst. Learn more. House bill would mandate guns with .007-style smart tech Inspired by the latest James Bond film, a House Democrat has filed legislation that would require all U.S. gun manufacturers to build smart technology into handguns to keep unauthorized people from using them. Read More Microsoft software satisfaction slumps Customer satisfaction with Microsoft's software, primarily Windows, dropped slightly in the last year, likely part of the fallout over Windows 8, a national survey released today said. Read More Storms test Red Cross' Tornado app The Red Cross is using apps to help warn people about potential weather calamities. One of its more popular efforts is its new Tornado app. Read More Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market. Read More Despite Schmidt's timeline, Google may ship Glass in 2013 Just a month after a top Google executive said Glass wouldn't be officially released for another year, sources say the computerized eyeglasses actually should ship by the end of this year. Read More Toshiba shrinks 64Gbit flash chips, but still lags Samsung Toshiba said it will soon begin mass producing a new type of 64Gbit NAND flash that is the smallest and fastest in its class, though it still lags rival Samsung Electronics in the development of an even denser flash technology. Read More Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a vote of confidence for Intel chips in mobile devices. Read More WEBCAST: LogiAnalytics (formerly LogiXML) Webinar: Create Competitive Advantage, Featuring Synchology You are invited to our live, interactive webinar featuring the President and Product Director of Synchology: The Branded Payments Company. Synchology was using SAS and Excel to create performance reports for their clients, which was time-consuming and had numerous technical limitations. View Now! Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC Read More The good, the bad and the ugly of Tumblr under Yahoo Yahoo has promised "not to screw up" Tumblr now that it has acquired the freewheeling blogging site. But there are still several ways Tumblr could get better, and worse, as a Yahoo-owned company. Read More Google Checkout to shut down in November Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing platform. Read More Sprint gets SoftBank clearance to negotiate with Dish Sprint Nextel said it had received permission from SoftBank to negotiate a rival acquisition offer from Dish Network. Read More Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of storage so that users can upload images at their original resolution. Read More Canadian regulator takes lighter view of Bitcoin It appears Canada's anti-money laundering regulator will leave Bitcoin exchanges in the country alone for now. Read More Steve Pate: PCI forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of compliance When IT teams start talking Infrastructure as a Service, I expect corporate compliance officers hear virtual alarm klaxons, along with the not-so-friendly warning, "Sir, step away from the cloud." We have been taught that data governed by PCI and the cloud do not mix, but is that really true? Read More Jonny Evans: Google threatens Apple's brand leadership as Samsung's Galaxy shines Apple remains the world's most valuable brand, but Tim Cook's people will likely be infuriated at the rise of arch-nemesis, Samsung, which has gained 51 percent in brand value across the last year while Google continues to threaten Cupertino's leadership. Read More
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