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	What's the matter with Microsoft? Microsoft's had a tough year already. It's retreated from flubs in licensing, the design of its flagship Windows OS and most recently, innovations it wanted to bake into the Xbox One. So what's going on? Read More 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! In this Issue With SoftBank deal in hand and Clearwire buyout near, Sprint to become 'spectrum powerhouse' Facebook might jump into news with rumored Reader Phoning Firefox: Browser now makes Web calls Hello, neighbors! Scientists find 3 potentially habitable planets Google should be regulated like utilities, say rivals Sprint shareholders approve $21.6B SoftBank buyout BYOD blues: What to do when employees leave Source code for Carberp financial malware gets leaked online Oracle, Salesforce.com ink nine-year tech pact AT&T launches new innovation centers in Atlanta, Plano Can ARM hold the mobile advantage over Intel's x86 architecture? Microsoft lays out more Yammer integration plans BlackBerry's Secure Work Space for Android and iOS now available There is no universal right to be forgotten, says top EU court adviser Dutch big data project aims to improve flood control, save millions Guide can help European governments avoid vendor lock-in Robert L. Mitchell: Has Snowden affair given China carte blanche to continue industrial espionage? Jonny Evans: Apple v. Samsung: Invention, not litigation, will define the Post-PC planet Preston Gralla: Think 2013 has been bad for Microsoft? Just wait until 2015. WEBCAST: Comcast The Success Network: Driving Business Forward The communications and connectivity infrastructure of your organization is the focus of this KnowledgeVault Exchange, sponsored by Comcast Business. Click here for exclusive videos, white papers, cases studies and an exclusive, interactive forum all aimed at optimizing your network for success in today's fast-paced marketplace. Read now With SoftBank deal in hand and Clearwire buyout near, Sprint to become 'spectrum powerhouse' Sprint shareholders Tuesday set the stage for a potentially massive change in the wireless carrier competitive landscape carriers by approving SoftBank's bid to buy 78% of the company for $21.6 billion. Read More Facebook might jump into news with rumored Reader Facebook didn't roll out a Google Reader replacement at its press event last Thursday, but the company may still be hard at work on a newsreading app. The world's largest social network is reportedly developing an application called Reader that lets you view news in a highly visual format. Reader will be targeted at mobile devices and the latest iterations of the app look similar to Flipboard, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal said Facebook has been working on Reader for more than a year, but it wasn't clear when the new app would get released or if it ever would. Read More Phoning Firefox: Browser now makes Web calls Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22, enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps. Read More Hello, neighbors! Scientists find 3 potentially habitable planets Scientists have discovered a solar system with three super-Earths that could possibly hold liquid water, meaning they have the ability to support life. Read More Google should be regulated like utilities, say rivals Companies who have been assessing Google's planned remedies to anti-competitive practice on Tuesday called on the European Commission to reject them and to consider regulating Internet search. Read More Sprint shareholders approve $21.6B SoftBank buyout Sprint Nextel shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve SoftBank's $21.6 billion takeover bid, setting the stage for the deal to close early next month. Read More BYOD blues: What to do when employees leave The bring your own device (BYOD) trend is gaining steam, thanks to the cost benefits and increased productivity that can come from allowing employees to provision their own technology. Mobile workers are more likely to put in more hours, so if your employees want to buy their own equipment and do more work on their own time, it's a win for the company. Read More Source code for Carberp financial malware gets leaked online The source code for the Carberp financial malware has been leaked online, increasing the risk that other cybercriminals will create their own variants based on it, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB. Read More Oracle, Salesforce.com ink nine-year tech pact In a coming together of rivals, Salesforce.com and Oracle have signed a nine-year agreement under which the companies will integrate their technologies and Salesforce.com will make a significant investment in Oracle products for its cloud computing platform. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More. AT&T launches new innovation centers in Atlanta, Plano AT&T Tuesday announced plans to open new innovation centers in Atlanta and Plano, Texas, to open in coming months, giving it a total of five such centers worldwide. Read More Can ARM hold the mobile advantage over Intel's x86 architecture? As more is demanded of smartphones and tablets, the limits of ARM's RISC architecture will become apparent. Read More Microsoft lays out more Yammer integration plans Upcoming integration points between Yammer and Microsoft products will include email interoperability, document collaboration and enterprise search, as Microsoft pursues its plan to make Yammer a common enterprise social collaboration layer across its business software. Read More BlackBerry's Secure Work Space for Android and iOS now available BlackBerry continues to expand its support for Android and iOS with Secure Work Space, which separates work and personal apps and data, as the company tries to hold on to enterprise users by becoming more platform neutral. Read More There is no universal right to be forgotten, says top EU court adviser The senior adviser to Europe's top court said Tuesday that Google is not responsible for third-party information in its search results and that there is no universal "right to be forgotten" under the current data protection laws. Read More Dutch big data project aims to improve flood control, save millions A big data project called Digital Delta aims to investigate how to transform flood control and the management of the entire Dutch water system and save up to 15% of the annual Dutch water management budget. Read More Guide can help European governments avoid vendor lock-in A new European guide aimed at avoiding IT vendor lock-in could save the public sector more than $1.3 billion a year. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Has Snowden affair given China carte blanche to continue industrial espionage? Edward Snowden's revelations about U.S. spying on China may have damaged the U.S.'s credibility in terms of its complaints about China's allegegly government-sponsored industrial espionage program. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple v. Samsung: Invention, not litigation, will define the Post-PC planet Color me confused. A scant few days since Japan's courts found Samsung guilty of patent infringement against Apple with older Galaxy devices, the Japan's courts seem to have reversed the decision, to applause from Samsung's fans and a series of confused mewlings from those in Cupertino's corner. Read More Preston Gralla: Think 2013 has been bad for Microsoft? Just wait until 2015. With plummeting PC sales and Windows 8's struggles, 2013 is proving to be a year that Microsoft would like to forget. But there's evidence that it's nothing more than a preview of even worse things to come. By 2015 Windows will likely fall to the world's number three operating system. Read More
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