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	Retailers didn't do Windows 8 any favors Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Read More WEBCAST: HOSTING How The Cloud Threatens Midsize Enterprises A recent study showed 92% of IT pros recognize that moving to the cloud provides a competitive edge, but only 20% plan to get there. The failure to close that Cloud gap poses a serious threat. Learn More In this Issue Spy court OK'd all U.S. wiretap requests it received in 2012 Google Glass apps start to hit. Wink! Wink! Acer introduces $169 Android tablet Barbara Krasnoff: Acer's new Aspire R7 laptop: Innovation for its own sake? Google bares Chrome's Trojan strategy with native-style packaged apps Samsung smartphones, tablets running Knox get U.S. Defense Department approval Space shots: Android phones beam back Earth pix MIT envisions future of talking cars that can plan driver's day Accused SpyEye virus creator extradited to the U.S. Dell investigates report of its computers being sold to Syria Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools Solar-powered plane takes off on flight across US Video: Solar Impulse begins solar-powered journey across the US Gmail users can now automatically generate Calendar entries Johanna Ambrosio: Playing and working differently H-1B debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers Jonny Evans: Will Apple's flat iOS society please shut up? Preston Gralla: Here's why Windows 8 will never approach Vista's awfulness WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware Your IT Journey - Your Way Faced with unrelenting pressure to do more with less, IT leaders are implementing virtualization, mobility and cloud computing in their enterprises. In this Knowledge Vault Exchange you'll find a plethora of valuable information, including videos, on-demand Webcasts, white papers and Twitter chats. View Now! Spy court OK'd all U.S. wiretap requests it received in 2012 A special court established to review government requests for warrants to conduct electronic surveillance of suspected foreign spies received close to 1,900 warrant requests last year -- all of which it approved. Read More Google Glass apps start to hit. Wink! Wink! Now that developers have Google Glass in hand, the first apps are starting to come out. Read More Acer introduces $169 Android tablet Acer debuted three new products in New York Friday, including its Iconia A1, an Android tablet with a 7.9-inch screen. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Acer's new Aspire R7 laptop: Innovation for its own sake? Innovation is a good thing -- unless it is innovation for its own sake. Acer's new Aspire R7 touchscreen laptop may fall into that latter category. Read More Google bares Chrome's Trojan strategy with native-style packaged apps Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps" is part of a strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ecosystem, an analyst said today. Read More Samsung smartphones, tablets running Knox get U.S. Defense Department approval Samsung said Friday that its smartphones and tablets running its Knox security and management software have been cleared for use on the U.S. Department of Defense network. Read More Space shots: Android phones beam back Earth pix NASA released photos taken by three smartphones as they orbited Earth. Read More MIT envisions future of talking cars that can plan driver's day You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. Read More Accused SpyEye virus creator extradited to the U.S. An Algerian man accused of helping to develop and distribute the SpyEye computer virus has been extradited from Thailand to the U.S. to face criminal charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Read More WHITE PAPER: serVelocity Six Keys for Services to Maximize PSA Implementation Success Even for successful services organizations, transformational initiatives are simply very challenging to deliver. Spending relatively little time in the early stages of PSA implementations ensures success through agreed upon outcomes, business and process design changes, and the commitment to managing organizational change. Learn more. Dell investigates report of its computers being sold to Syria Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled government there, in violation of U.S. export restrictions. Read More Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Read More Solar-powered plane takes off on flight across US A one-of-a-kind aircraft powered solely by solar energy took to the skies above Silicon Valley early Friday morning on the first leg of a planned trip across the U.S. Read More Video: Solar Impulse begins solar-powered journey across the US Solar Impulse, a Swiss aircraft that is powered solely by solar power begins its journey across the US from Moffett Field on May 3, 2013 Read More Gmail users can now automatically generate Calendar entries Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. Read More Johanna Ambrosio: Playing and working differently Nick Barber of the IDG News Service attended this week's Human Computer Interaction conference in Paris. Here's some of the cool stuff he saw there. Read More H-1B debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran IT workers question their motives for wanting to increase the number of visas under the controversial H-1B program. Read More Jonny Evans: Will Apple's flat iOS society please shut up? Apple is working hard to redesign iOS 7. This important project is demanding resources from elsewhere in the company as it abandons some skeumorphic elements to create a cleaner, more user-focused interface. That's all we think we know. But it's time to shut up about it. Read More Preston Gralla: Here's why Windows 8 will never approach Vista's awfulness Windows 8 has taken plenty of criticism since its release. But even though it's been called as big a bomb as Vista, Windows 8 will have much more success than that version of Windows. Here's why. Read More
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