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	Boutique PC seller laughs all the way to the bank on the back of Windows 7 A boutique system builder has bucked the industry trend of slumping PC sales by continuing to focus on selling Windows 7 machines. 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 Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up' Review: StarTech's flash drive duplicator, eraser is fast and simple Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for about $1.1 billion Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association Telenor cyberespionage attack has Indian origins Corning taps into optical fiber for better indoor wireless 40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China JR Raphael: Google's new weapon in the Android upgrade battle Preston Gralla: Dell and enterprises diss Windows 8 big-time Jonny Evans: Now even iPads seem delayed as Apple targets fall WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow 3 IT Imperatives CIOs Use To Drive Change CIOs who have been successful in bridging the divide between IT operations and business did it by accelerating the transformation of IT. Read now! Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up' Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is worth about US$1.1 billion, nearly all in cash. Read More Review: StarTech's flash drive duplicator, eraser is fast and simple The 1-to-2 Flash Drive duplicator transfers data at up to 1.5GB per minute and like StarTech's hard drive duplicator, it's remarkably simple to use. Read More Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for about $1.1 billion Yahoo will acquire blogging site Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion, the companies confirmed Monday. Read More Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen. Read More Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have been confirmed as the secret backers behind the European Privacy Association (EPA) which was accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog on Thursday. Read More Telenor cyberespionage attack has Indian origins A recent intrusion on the computer network of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor was the result of a large cyberespionage operation of Indian origin that for the past few years has targeted business, government and political organizations from different countries, according to researchers from security firm Norman Shark. Read More WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation Enterprise Application Performance Scalability This ESG Lab preview summarizes the results of independent, third-party testing of QLogic's 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter with a focus on database performance improvements and cache effectiveness in single-server and multi-server environments. Read Now! Corning taps into optical fiber for better indoor wireless Bringing wireless indoors, which was once just a matter of antennas carrying a few cellular bands so people could get phone calls, has grown far more complex and demanding in the age of Wi-Fi, multiple radio bands and more powerful antennas. Read More 40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. Read More Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company. Read More JR Raphael: Google's new weapon in the Android upgrade battle Google's got a bold new plan for the Android platform -- and if you own an Android device new or old, you'd better believe it'll affect you. Read More Preston Gralla: Dell and enterprises diss Windows 8 big-time If selling and buying operating systems were a football game, Dell and enterprises might be called for piling on, because within the last several days both of them have given big thumbs-downs to Windows 8. This is just the latest in a long series of bad news for the newest version of Windows. Read More Jonny Evans: Now even iPads seem delayed as Apple targets fall Apple appears likely to maintain its slow product release schedule as it seems set not to introduce its thinner and lighter fifth-generation iPad and iPad mini 2 until late summer as partners prepare to begin trial production of the new devices. Volume production begins in July. Read More
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