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	Free imprisoned AT&T hacker now, says EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation and a team of legal experts called on the U.S. Court of Appeals to free Andrew Auernheimer, a computer hacker recently sentenced to 41 months in prison for illegally accessing data from AT&T's networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8 How to Save with Hosted PBX Does your phone system lack Fortune 500 communication features? Are you ready to cut your phone bill in half? Download this new eBook to quickly learn how cloud communications deliver these 4 benefits Learn more. In this Issue Apple hands out gift cards in back-to-school deal Russian rocket crashes, explodes in failed launch Snowden withdraws Russia asylum petition as options dwindle Gartner downgrades 2013 global IT spending forecast on currency shifts Opera 15 launches with WebKit backbone Jonny Evans: Apple's victory is complete Preston Gralla: Microsoft's not-so-secret plan to vault Bing over Google JR Raphael: The verdict: Should you buy the Galaxy S4 and/or HTC One Google Play Edition? Twitter etiquette: The do's and don'ts of tweeting Civil rights groups plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance Microsoft CRM update to focus on marketing, mobility and usability Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud Alleged Shadowcrew member extradited to the US nine years after forum takedown Joyce Carpenter: Controlling cockroach neurons -- there's an app for that We want to be surprised, CERN scientist says Google keeps users' data available until July 15 in Reader's wake WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc The Total Cost of Email In this white paper, we'll explore the true costs of fragmented email management and uncover how to reduce those costs with a cloud-based solution for email management. Learn More. Apple hands out gift cards in back-to-school deal Apple today kicked off its annual back-to-school promotion, reprising a deal that will award gift cards to customers who buy qualifying hardware. Read More Russian rocket crashes, explodes in failed launch An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three satellites suddenly stalled 17 seconds after liftoff and fell back to Earth where it exploded in a fiery crash. Read More Snowden withdraws Russia asylum petition as options dwindle Former Booz Allen Hamilton employee-turned-fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden withdrew his request for political asylum in Russia as his options for shelter in other countries appear to be dwindling. Read More Gartner downgrades 2013 global IT spending forecast on currency shifts Gartner has lowered its expectations for growth this year in global IT spending, saying it will rise 2% to $3.7 trillion. Earlier this year, the analyst firm predicted 2013 growth of 4.1%. Read More Opera 15 launches with WebKit backbone Opera Software on Monday released a final version of Opera 15, the first of its desktop browsers to rely on the open-source Chromium engine. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's victory is complete Apple's victory is complete. The company has set the bar for PC and mobile device design and has influenced the design process across the entire technology industry. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's not-so-secret plan to vault Bing over Google Bing is an also-ran to Google's search dominance, but Microsoft's plan to challenge the leader is starting to pay off and could pay even bigger dividends in a few short years. It likely won't be enough to take the top spot from Google, but it could turn Bing into a serious contender. Read More JR Raphael: The verdict: Should you buy the Galaxy S4 and/or HTC One Google Play Edition? The Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Editions have some compelling elements -- but they also come with some significant caveats. So are they worth buying? Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Data Deduplication This IDC Buyer Case Study explores the benefits EMC realized from the use of a range of EMC's own backup and recovery solutions that leverage deduplication technology. Learn more. Twitter etiquette: The do's and don'ts of tweeting With millions of people tweeting about their jobs, politicians, celebrities and even their favorite sandwich, it's easy to tweet without thinking or tweet in anger. Those thoughtless tweets can offend some and stir up an online hornet's nest. Read More Civil rights groups plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance A large coalition of civil rights and privacy groups and potentially thousands of websites will stage protests on the Fourth of July to protest surveillance programs at the National Security Agency. Read More Microsoft CRM update to focus on marketing, mobility and usability Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of its Dynamics CRM software that will include improved mobile applications and integrations with Yammer, Skype and the company"s MarketingPilot marketing automation software. Read More Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud For the latest update of Oracle Enterprise Manager, the company has taken additional steps to help organizations set up their own private clouds, using Oracle systems, software and even non-Oracle products. Read More Alleged Shadowcrew member extradited to the US nine years after forum takedown A 30-year-old Bulgarian was extradited to the U.S. from Paraguay to face charges related to his alleged involvement in Shadowcrew, a large cybercrime forum that was dismantled by U.S. authorities in 2004. Read More Joyce Carpenter: Controlling cockroach neurons -- there's an app for that In this TedTalk, we see how electrical stimulation of neurons can trigger activity in … a severed cockroach leg. And lemme tell ya, this cockroach can dance. Read More We want to be surprised, CERN scientist says The Large Hadron Collider is undergoing major upgrades, which will bring scientists closer than ever to the secrets of the universe when the particle accelerator is up and running again in 2015. Read More Google keeps users' data available until July 15 in Reader's wake Google's Reader is now officially dead, but the company wants to make users' transition to other content aggregators as painless as possible, partly by keeping their data available for the next couple weeks. Read More
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