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	It's getting warmer in some data centers With major parts of the U.S. under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn't. 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 Bill Gates gets serious about Microsoft Bob App economy expected to double by 2017 to $151B Sprint outage affects customers in some parts of U.S. for several hours Apple probes iPhone 5-related death in China Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old Surface smartwatch in prototype with modified Windows 8, reports say Sprint kicks off tri-band device sales Google's chances to obtain dotless 'http://search' domain shrink Oracle ups memory, storage of Exalytics analytics appliance Security Manager's Journal: Suddenly, our firewall audit can't wait Unusual file-infecting malware steals FTP credentials Ad networks agree to take steps against online piracy Ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie joins HP's board Jonny Evans: Will Apple's iTunes Radio make Radiohead's Thom Yorke happy? Robert L. Mitchell: So your boss is a sociopath. Now what? Darlene Storm: Can you hear me now? Yeah, hacked Verizon device can nab your texts and photos too Preston Gralla: Microsoft may merge Windows Phone and tablets OSes -- what happens to Windows? WEBCAST: PC Connection Simplify Your Servers Would you like to simplify your server infrastructure? Learn about the benefits that Cisco UCS and Intel® Xeon® processors bring to data center computing. Discover how to overcome limitations in your existing server infrastructure to deploy more servers in less space at a lower cost and reduce time spent on tactical operational activities. View now. Bill Gates gets serious about Microsoft Bob Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today briefly took attendees at a company-hosted research conference back decades to the failure of Microsoft Bob and the loathed "Clippy" to talk about opportunities in preemptively helping technology users. Read More App economy expected to double by 2017 to $151B The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services and in-app advertising is expected to double to $151 billion in the U.S. by 2017, AppNation said. Read More Sprint outage affects customers in some parts of U.S. for several hours Sprint on Monday experienced network outages affecting voice communications for several hours in various regions nationwide, the wireless carrier confirmed. Read More Apple probes iPhone 5-related death in China Apple promised to investigate a report that a young Chinese woman was electrocuted when she answered her iPhone 5 while it was plugged into its charger. Read More Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago wanted to know how smart a top artificial intelligence system actually is. So they gave it an IQ test. Read More Surface smartwatch in prototype with modified Windows 8, reports say Microsoft is reportedly moving ahead quickly with development of a smartwatch, having reached the prototype stage of a 1.5-in. device running on a modified Windows 8 housed in a translucent aluminum case. Read More Sprint kicks off tri-band device sales Sprint will begin selling two LTE hotspots and an LTE USB modem on Friday -- the first tri-band LTE devices the carrier has offered. Read More Google's chances to obtain dotless 'http://search' domain shrink Google's chances of obtaining the "http://search" domain name are shrinking after several committees affiliated with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently warned that dotless domain names could be harmful to the Internet. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Storage Resource Management Suite Learn how you can visualize applications to storage dependencies, analyze configurations and capacity growth, and optimize your environment to improve storage management efficiency. Learn more. Oracle ups memory, storage of Exalytics analytics appliance Oracle is introducing a new generation of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis that comes with a slightly higher price tag but major increases in memory and storage capacity. Read More Security Manager's Journal: Suddenly, our firewall audit can't wait After a DDoS attack was discovered by chance, 'later this year' is too long to wait. Read More Unusual file-infecting malware steals FTP credentials A new version of a file-infecting malware program that's being distributed through drive-by download attacks is also capable of stealing FTP credentials, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro. Read More Ad networks agree to take steps against online piracy A group of U.S. companies operating Internet advertising networks has pledged to bar websites trafficking in pirated goods from using their services and to take other steps to fight online copyright infringement. Read More Ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie joins HP's board Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has received a major infusion of software know-how, with the addition of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie . Read More Jonny Evans: Will Apple's iTunes Radio make Radiohead's Thom Yorke happy? There may be tough times ahead for iTunes Radio on news Radiohead front man, Thom Yorke has withdrawn tracks from streaming music service, Spotify, slamming the service for paying artists peanuts for their music. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: So your boss is a sociopath. Now what? What should you do if you personally have to work with -- or worse for -- a sociopath? Read More Darlene Storm: Can you hear me now? Yeah, hacked Verizon device can nab your texts and photos too Security researchers hacked a Verizon femtocell and turned it into a spying device if an unlucky user is within 40 feet of the network extender. The device is small, portable and "can pick up signals through most walls." Their upcoming Def Con talk will show how any NSA surveillance wannabes could eavesdrop on phone calls, text messages, photos sent on an iPhone or Android smartphone. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft may merge Windows Phone and tablets OSes -- what happens to Windows? A rumor making the rounds says that Microsoft will combine Windows Phone and its tablet operating systems by 2015, in much the way Apple has a united phone/tablet operating system. That makes sense. But what then happens to Windows? Read More
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