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	8 great sites for one-stop data visualization These are places to find, analyze and visualize publicly available data to use in your own materials. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Data+ Conference Computerworld Data+ Conference: Sept. 8-10, Scottsdale, AZ Data+, which evolved from the former BI & Analytics Perspectives Conference, takes place September 8-10, 2013 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Over the course of this two-day event, 250+ IT decision-makers and business leaders, like you, connect with peers and leading big data business and technology solution providers. Register now. In this Issue Apple seeks 'iWatch' trademark in Japan U.S. senators demand that NSA disclose extent of spy program Finally! A full-featured 'phablet' Two malware programs help each other stay on computers Yahoo kills a dozen more products to sharpen its focus Oracle and Salesforce.com's love-fest: The ripple effects Facebook moves to separate ads from controversial content Bitcoin exchange files with US Treasury regulatory agency Darlene Storm: NSA collected 1 trillion metadata records, harvested 1 billion mobile calls daily Steve Pate: Data privacy and PRISM: When politics and technology collide Richi Jennings: Google Reader is DEAD: Replacement alternative ideas are here WEBCAST: PC Connection How Lenovo Enhances Your Windows 8 Experience Learn about the innovated devices that Lenovo designed to take full advantage of the new touch interface of Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro. Learn more. Apple seeks 'iWatch' trademark in Japan Apple has filed to trademark the phrase 'iWatch' in Japan, amid rumors the company will soon launch a smart watch device globally. Read More U.S. senators demand that NSA disclose extent of spy program A group of 26 U.S. senators, cutting across party lines, are seeking 'public answers' on whether the National Security Agency collected in bulk other data such as credit card purchases and financial information in the U.S. besides phone records. Read More Finally! A full-featured 'phablet' Phablets (phones + tablets) need wearable devices to make them powerful and mainstream, as well as acceptable in business. Here's one company that understands this. Read More Two malware programs help each other stay on computers Two malicious software programs that help each other stay on computers are proving difficult to remove. Read More Yahoo kills a dozen more products to sharpen its focus Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens Enterprise Communications Seven Contact Center Trends You Can't Ignore Rapid changes are underway in the world of traditional contact centers. It starts with the disruptive nature of social media and mobile apps, but it doesn't end there. Don't be left behind. Learn the seven contact center trends you can't ignore. Learn More Oracle and Salesforce.com's love-fest: The ripple effects Oracle's string of high-profile cloud-computing partnership announcements with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite dominated tech news headlines this week. Read More Facebook moves to separate ads from controversial content Facebook is launching an aggressive strategy for better detecting violent, graphic, sexual and otherwise controversial content across its site and removing ads that appear alongside that content. Read More Bitcoin exchange files with US Treasury regulatory agency The largest Bitcoin exchange has filed key paperwork with the US Treasury's anti-money laundering agency, but it may have come too late. Read More Darlene Storm: NSA collected 1 trillion metadata records, harvested 1 billion mobile calls daily An office of secret NSA spooks celebrated one trillion metadata records collected and counting. Newly leaked PRISM slides show surveillance capabilities including real-time digital eavesdropping acess. More leaked top secret documents 'coming soon' will include the fact that the NSA hoovers up one billion cell phone calls every single day. Read More Steve Pate: Data privacy and PRISM: When politics and technology collide If you are both a news and a cloud junky as I am, there has never been a more interesting -- or distracting -- time to hit refresh on your favorite online news site. The recent statements by whistle-blower Eric Snowden about the scope of surveillance and data capture by the NSA were surprising -- and highly concerning -- to many. Is this news powerful enough to silence the siren call of the cloud? What can companies do to protect themselves -- and their data -- if Snowden's disclosures are accurate? Read More Richi Jennings: Google Reader is DEAD: Replacement alternative ideas are here Google Reader alternatives or replacements listed within. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is finally killing its RSS/Atom reader today. What are your alternatives? With what should you replace it? So. Farewell then, Google Reader. "New in your subscriptions"—that was your catchphrase. Rabbits; white rabb-it's IT Blogwatch—in which, bloggers make like E. Jarvis Thribb (17½). Not to mention: HITLER... Read More
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