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	Bleaker forecast pushes Windows rebound into 2014 Gartner today downgraded its estimate of Windows' 18-month future, saying that Microsoft's platform will take a hit this year, then rebound in 2014 at a more muted pace than it forecast two months ago. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc The Total Economic Impact of Mimecast's UEM Solution This research provides a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of unifying your email management in the cloud. Learn More. Learn More. In this Issue INSIDER Privacy zealots say, 'Cookies for me, none for thee' Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets go on sale July 7 for $199 to $399 Tune in: Microsoft to live stream BUILD keynote on Wednesday You can get a new smartphone for half off at AT&T this week National Zoo uses Twitter to find missing panda HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Android Video Brew: The Cloud? I prefer the clouds... WikiLeaks slams U.S. for pursuing Snowden Ecuador considers Snowden's asylum request Cosmonauts on spacewalk to add lab to space station, NASA reports Software AG angles its messaging platform for Big Data conveyance Data center outage takes French state financial system offline for four days Eric Berridge: Building a psychic IT network Jonny Evans: The Post-PC age: Do we choose the miraculous, or the mundane? Ken Gagne: Steve Jobs movie trailer is meant for the masses Michael Horowitz: Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA from secure web pages, but no one uses it Preston Gralla: Windows 8.1 is a winner, but PC sales will plummet, says Gartner WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including: - Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years - Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours - Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours Learn more. INSIDER Privacy zealots say, 'Cookies for me, none for thee' Establishment of Cookie Clearinghouse shows support for user choice to be little more than rhetoric. (Insider; registration required) Read More Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets go on sale July 7 for $199 to $399 Three new Android-based Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets will go on sale in the U.S. on July 7, with the 7-in. model starting at $199. Read More Tune in: Microsoft to live stream BUILD keynote on Wednesday Microsoft will webcast the opening keynote of its BUILD developers conference Wednesday starting at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET). Read More You can get a new smartphone for half off at AT&T this week AT&T kicked off a smartphone trade-in deal today that knocks 50% off the price of several of the newest smartphones -- including the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 -- subject to a new two-year agreement. Read More National Zoo uses Twitter to find missing panda When Rusty, the red panda, went missing Sunday night from his exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, zoo keepers turned to Twitter to find him. Read More HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Android Hewlett-Packard is also bringing Android to the PC, and has unveiled a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Google's operating system. Read More Video Brew: The Cloud? I prefer the clouds... Before The Cloud, there were clouds. And pretty cool ones, too. This video features strange clouds including lenticular, mammatus, and other bizarre formations, set to some pleasant new age music. Enjoy during your next coffee break. Read More WikiLeaks slams U.S. for pursuing Snowden U.S. officials should be condemned for "bullying" other nations in their attempts to get them to turn over Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, who leaked classified information on massive surveillance programs there, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Storage Resource Management Suite Learn how you can visualize applications to storage dependencies, analyze configurations and capacity growth, and optimize your environment to improve storage management efficiency. Learn more. Ecuador considers Snowden's asylum request Ecuador is considering an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and has been maintaining diplomatic contact with Russia, said Ricardo Patio Aroca, Ecuador's minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, on Monday. Read More Cosmonauts on spacewalk to add lab to space station, NASA reports Two spacewalking cosmonauts Monday are preparing the outside of the International Space Station for the addition of a new Russian lab. Read More Software AG angles its messaging platform for Big Data conveyance Anticipating a greater need for large-scale enterprise messaging, Software AG has rebranded its messaging software, integrated it with its Terracotta in-memory storage technology, and is now is pitching the product outside its initial market of large financial firms. Read More Data center outage takes French state financial system offline for four days The French government's accounts payable system, Chorus, is back online after a four-day outage, the French State Financial Computing Agency (AIFE) announced Monday. Read More Eric Berridge: Building a psychic IT network In this era of instant gratification you need infrastructure that bestows quasi-psychic powers on your workforce so that you know what your customers want before they know they want it. Read More Jonny Evans: The Post-PC age: Do we choose the miraculous, or the mundane? There is a battle raging. This isn't just the one between Apple and others in the smartphone space, but sees those who aim to benefit humanity struggle against those who simply seek profit from our transient existence. Read More Ken Gagne: Steve Jobs movie trailer is meant for the masses The first theatrical feature to portray the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hits theaters this August 16. Does its trailer suggest any adherence to historical accuracy, or is it a shameless attempt to cash in on Apple's popularity? Read More Michael Horowitz: Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA from secure web pages, but no one uses it Perfect Forward Privacy is an obscure SSL configuration option that increases security. Until a few days ago, I had never heard of it. Almost no one uses it. Without it, HTTPS encrypted web pages are vulnerable to the theft of a single piece of data. No need to break through the wall, if you have the key to the lock. In this fairly long and technical blog, I speculate on how the NSA might, perhaps, be able to see through SSL, TLS and HTTPS as if they were glass. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows 8.1 is a winner, but PC sales will plummet, says Gartner Microsoft is caught in the ultimate good news/bad news syndrome: Windows 8.1 will likely fix Windows 8's woes, but PC sales will still take a nose dive. So says two recent Gartner reports, and they may well be right. Read More
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