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	Computerworld Honors 2013: Tech projects that are changing the world For 25 years, the Computerworld Honors Program has recognized organizations that use information technology to promote and advance the public welfare. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: KnowBe4 How big is your 'phishing attack surface'? Many email addresses of your organization are exposed, allowing cybercriminals to launch spear-phishing attacks. The bigger the attack footprint, the higher your risk. Fill out the form and we'll email you the list of exposed addresses. Sign up for your FREE EEC now In this Issue Looks like Feedly wins the Google Reader expat crown Salesforce.com buying ExactTarget for $2.5 billion New laptops and hybrids emerge as 'fatbooks' are kicked to curb Dual persona smartphones non grata at Starz Intel shows first Merrifield-based smartphone Tegra 4 can power better, cheaper stylus, Nvidia says Lenovo seeks joint venture, possibly to shore up smartphone business Dell's Haswell-based XPS 12 hybrid offers 50% more battery life Chasing tablets, Intel further cuts Haswell power draw Zynga lays off 18 percent of workforce, shifts focus to mobile At TechEd, Microsoft focuses IT pros on the 'Cloud OS' Multiple copies of data drive attempts to rein it in Obama set to unveil measures against patent trolls, report says Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip Darlene Storm: Future authentication superpower: Pop a daily password pill or wear a digital tattoo? WHITE PAPER: 10gen How Apollo Group Evaluated MongoDB Apollo Group, best known as the parent company of the University of Phoenix, sought to build a cloud-based learning management platform and needed a new data store to support it. After a thorough evaluation, Apollo Group selected MongoDB for its ease of use, performance, availability, and cost effectiveness. Learn More Looks like Feedly wins the Google Reader expat crown Feedly, the free RSS service that has been the safe harbor for millions of Internet refugees fleeing the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader, announced Monday that several popular RSS apps will access its API free of charge. Read More Salesforce.com buying ExactTarget for $2.5 billion Salesforce.com is set to deepen its reach into marketing software with the purchase of ExactTarget for about $2.5 billion. Read More New laptops and hybrids emerge as 'fatbooks' are kicked to curb The trusty old laptop is being kicked to the curb, with PC makers trying to spice up their offerings by pushing a variety of hybrids, tablets and smaller-screen devices at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week. Read More Dual persona smartphones non grata at Starz Among several BYOD strategies Starz has tried over the past five years, dual persona smartphones -- offering employees a business and personal interface -- took off like a lead balloon. Read More Intel shows first Merrifield-based smartphone Intel on Tuesday showed the first smartphone based on its next Atom smartphone chip code-named Merrifield, which will provide better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. Read More Tegra 4 can power better, cheaper stylus, Nvidia says Nvidia is usually trumpeting the graphics performance of its Tegra 4 chip, but at the Computex trade show on Tuesday CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed how its newest processor can be used to create a precise, affordable stylus for tablets. Read More Lenovo seeks joint venture, possibly to shore up smartphone business Lenovo is in preliminary negotiations to start a joint venture with an unspecified party, the company said on Tuesday, setting off speculation that the company could be looking to bolster its expanding smartphone business. Read More WHITE PAPER: Nasuni Corp Eliminating the Need for WAN Acceleration Using the Cloud Download this white paper to learn about how the cloud is an exciting new alternative to traditional WAN acceleration. Learn More. Dell's Haswell-based XPS 12 hybrid offers 50% more battery life Dell has announced new PCs with Intel's fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell, including a thinner and lighter XPS 12 laptop-tablet hybrid, which will offer up to 9.5 hours of battery life. Read More Chasing tablets, Intel further cuts Haswell power draw Intel wants to match PC battery life with that of tablets through its new dual-core fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell. Read More Zynga lays off 18 percent of workforce, shifts focus to mobile ] Read More At TechEd, Microsoft focuses IT pros on the 'Cloud OS' For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Read More Multiple copies of data drive attempts to rein it in All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. Read More Obama set to unveil measures against patent trolls, report says U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce Tuesday measures directed against patent-holding companies, often referred to as patent trolls, according to a newspaper report. Read More Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture. Read More Darlene Storm: Future authentication superpower: Pop a daily password pill or wear a digital tattoo? At the recent All Things Digital D11 conference, Regina Dugan, the former DARPA head talked about Motorola Advanced Technology and Project innovations for authentication. The future of authentication could include wearable authentication such as digital tattoos, or managing passwords by popping a pill every day that would work as an "authentication vitamin." Then your entire body is your authentication token and "it "becomes your first superpower" as one pill a day would authenticate you on your phone, computer, door, or car. Read More
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