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	EPEAT green IT registry expanding to mobile phones The Green Electronics Council plans to expand its EPEAT environmental rating system later this year to include smartphones, the council said Tuesday. Read More 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. In this Issue Data.gov gets an open-source revamp Microsoft denies giving NSA direct access to email Church, advocacy groups sue NSA over surveillance NASA's Hubble telescope spots Neptune's hidden moon WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Best Practices in Data Protection Monitoring Whether you consider your domain to be a private cloud, a hybrid cloud, or a public cloud, you are providing data protection as a service. According to ESG's 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey, improving data backup and recovery was the number two-most important IT priority selected by respondents (27%). Learn more. Data.gov gets an open-source revamp The U.S. government's portal for the data it creates, Next.Data.gov, is getting a revamp that should make it easier to view and reuse government data. Read More Microsoft denies giving NSA direct access to email Microsoft does not give the U.S. National Security agency direct access to its customers' email or instant messages, contrary to previous news reports, a company executive said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Top 5 Req's for Secure Enterprise File Sync and Sharing To achieve productivity gains people have been adopting ways to easily share files, access them from anywhere and sync them across devices often exposing the organization to serious security and compliance risks. View Now Church, advocacy groups sue NSA over surveillance Nineteen organizations, including a church and gun ownership and marijuana legalization groups, have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency for a surveillance program that targets U.S. residents' phone records. Read More NASA's Hubble telescope spots Neptune's hidden moon The planet Neptune has been hiding a secret that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just discovered -- another moon. Read More
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