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	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: QLogic Corporation Scalable Performance to Enterprise Applications The growing disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualized, and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application performance. Read Now! In this Issue One year under Mayer, Yahoo no longer 'dead company walking' Bart Perkins: Unresponsive suppliers might just not be that into you Church, advocacy groups sue NSA over surveillance Yahoo's Q2 earnings up nearly 50 percent Infor hit with lawsuit over alleged software project failure W3C rejects ad industry attempt to hijack do-not-track specs Robert L. Mitchell: So your boss is a sociopath. Now what? Ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie joins HP's board WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Steps to Application Performance Optimization Poor application performance can cost more than you think. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates reports that it can exceed $1 million per hour in large enterprises. Read Now! One year under Mayer, Yahoo no longer 'dead company walking' After a year with Marissa Mayer at the helm, Yahoo is no longer seen as a 'dead company walking,' according to one analyst. Read More Bart Perkins: Unresponsive suppliers might just not be that into you If your company isn't in the Fortune 500, you might find it difficult to get suppliers to provide product information, respond to an RFP or deliver adequate support. But there are ways to make your organization more attractive. Read More 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 Yahoo's Q2 earnings up nearly 50 percent Yahoo announced its Quarter 2 earnings on Tuesday, in a teleconferenced video the company streamed online.Yahoo's second quarter earnings show profits rose by 46 percent in Q2, aided by nearly a dozen product launches, though sales at the company Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Backup Game Plan Learn the 3 steps you can take now to implement the right disk platform, ensure quick recoveries, identify the biggest backup pain points, and add a range of value-added services across the organization. Learn more. Infor hit with lawsuit over alleged software project failure Infor has been sued by a customer who claims an ERP (enterprise resource planning) project that was supposed to take six months instead allegedly dragged on for well over a year without any useful results. Read More W3C rejects ad industry attempt to hijack do-not-track specs The World Wide Web Consortium has rejected an attempt by the advertising industry to hijack a specification describing how websites should respond to "do not track" requests sent by Web browsers. 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 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
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