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Best Buy gets the best of Microsoft in Windows Store deal

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Best Buy gets the best of Microsoft in Windows Store deal
While Microsoft gained space in 600 Best Buy stores yesterday, the electronics retailer got the better end of the deal, an analyst said. Read More


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Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Data Deduplication
This IDC Buyer Case Study explores the benefits EMC realized from the use of a range of EMC's own backup and recovery solutions that leverage deduplication technology. Learn more.

Google Glass could get a look at the enterprise
While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses. Read More

Intel wants to be your new cable provider
Intel wants to create a virtual cable service that would bundle TV channels for subscribers. But cable providers are expected to put up a fight. Read More

As once-mighty Symbian enters hospice, will it be missed?
Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platform. Read More

Oxford English Dictionary breaks own rule, lists 'tweet'
Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon this month. Read More

NYC wants its old mechanical-lever voting machines back
The New York City Board of Elections is hoping to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the city's mayoral primary in September. Read More

Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?
If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time. Read More

Facebook sets new product reveal for June 20
Facebook is gearing up for a product announcement on June 20. Read More


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Adopt SDNs without Losing Network Control
Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Learn more.

Some foreign-backed US phone companies reportedly excluded from NSA surveillance program
At least two U.S. mobile operators, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, reportedly do not participate directly in the U.S. National Security Agency's call metadata collection program because of their partial ownership by foreign telecommunication companies. Read More

IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2 released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs. Read More

Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store
Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers. Read More

Obama directs agencies to move toward sharing spectrum
U.S. President Barack Obama has directed federal agencies to take new steps toward sharing their wireless spectrum with commercial operators, in an effort to meet growing demands for mobile data services. Read More

US cloud providers may have a harder time in Europe following NSA revelations
European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in programs such as Prism. Read More

Preston Gralla: Office for the iPhone means a half-victory for Microsoft's freethinkers
Microsoft's sudden, surprise release of Office for the iPhone is a victory for those in the company who recognize the company's future doesn't lie in turf wars and in-fighting, but instead in releasing the best products for the widest audience. But the victory is only a partial one. Read More

Jonny Evans: WWDC: Now it looks like Apple's going to take out the console market
WWDC 2013: With the dust settling on the recent Xbox and PS4 launches, Apple appears to have its own plan for the console gaming market -- though it's keeping pretty quiet about it, particularly since these plans could reflect its intentions for an Apple television. Read More

 

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