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	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 WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now In this Issue Darlene Storm: NSA collected 1 trillion metadata records, harvested 1 billion mobile calls daily Preston Gralla: Five reasons Windows 8.1 is a winner JR Raphael: HTC One Google Play Edition vs. the regular HTC One: Camera shootout! Barbara Krasnoff: 6 cool gadgets seen at CE Week (videos) JR Raphael: Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition vs. the regular GS4: Camera shootout! Steve Pate: Data privacy and PRISM: When politics and technology collide Sharky: The first casualty is the documented process WEBCAST: SAP Bring Mobile Innovation to your Enterprise. With the mobility revolution well underway, CIO's and Line of Business owners are faced with the struggle to develop a winning mobile strategy. In this exclusive SAP KnowledgeVault Exchange, find out how to give your company an edge by developing a secure, future-proof mobile strategy. Learn 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 Preston Gralla: Five reasons Windows 8.1 is a winner Windows 8.1 has gone a long way towards fixing some but certainly not all of Windows 8's woes. Here are five ways Windows 8.1 improves upon Windows 8. Read More JR Raphael: HTC One Google Play Edition vs. the regular HTC One: Camera shootout! The HTC One is known for taking great pictures -- so with stock Android software, is the Google Play Edition just as good? Time to find out. Read More WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. Making Voice a Successful Part of Your UC Rollout You've thought long and hard about the investment you're making in Unified Communications. We've compiled ten steps to streamline the audio aspect of your UC deployment. Putting an audio strategy in place now can help you plan, deploy and eventually drive higher adoption rates. Download our workbook now! Read Now! Barbara Krasnoff: 6 cool gadgets seen at CE Week (videos) CE Week took place in New York City last week; a group of vendors showed off their new and upcoming consumer products to interested New Yorkers. I took videos of six of the company reps showing off their gadgets: Read More JR Raphael: Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition vs. the regular GS4: Camera shootout! How does the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition compare with the regular GS4 in terms of camera quality? Check out these side-by-side samples and see what you think. 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 Sharky: The first casualty is the documented process It's the kickoff meeting for a military IT project, and this sysadmin pilot fish is trying to keep track of the contradictions as they whiz by. Read More
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