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	Tech hiring: The glass is half empty Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says that layoffs in the computer, electronics and telecommunications industries are on the rise. But the news isn't all bad: growth rates in the U.S. are still strong compared to the rest of the world. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn more. In this Issue Microsoft denies giving NSA direct access to email Apple may buy Israeli firm that delivered Kinect 3-D tech to Redmond rival Graphics market to grow and spawn employment opportunities Church, advocacy groups sue NSA over surveillance Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia NASA's Hubble telescope spots Neptune's hidden moon T-Mobile sales of Xperia Z and Lumia 925 start Wednesday New digitally signed Mac malware confuses users with right-to-left file name tricks W3C rejects ad industry attempt to hijack do-not-track specs Intel makes gesture recognition push with Omek acquisition Astronaut's leaking helmet forces NASA to scrub spacewalk Jive improves gamification, analytics in enterprise social suite Toshiba to sell world's fastest SD cards this year Lenovo turns to software partnerships to expand server business Gigabit-boosted DSL Internet standard could be ready in 2014, ITU says Preston Gralla: Will Chromebooks be the dagger in Windows 8's heart? JR Raphael: 7 hot Android launches on the horizon right now WHITE PAPER: Brocade Federal IT Innovation Caught in a Catch-22 Fed resources shoring up old infrastructure, holding back new technologies. Read Now 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 Apple may buy Israeli firm that delivered Kinect 3-D tech to Redmond rival Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. Read More Graphics market to grow and spawn employment opportunities The computer hardware and software graphics market will grow in the coming years as applications become visually demanding, and employment opportunities in the field will expand, according to a study released on Tuesday. 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 Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia Edward Snowden, the leaker of documents that revealed National Security Agency surveillance programs, has submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia and could be granted a decision within several weeks, according to news reports. 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 T-Mobile sales of Xperia Z and Lumia 925 start Wednesday T-Mobile will begin in-store sales of both the Xperia Z from Sony and the Nokia Lumia 925 starting Wednesday. Read More New digitally signed Mac malware confuses users with right-to-left file name tricks A new piece of digitally signed spyware for Mac OS X uses a special Unicode character in its file name to hide its real file extension from users and trick them into installing it. Read More 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! 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 Intel makes gesture recognition push with Omek acquisition Intel has moved to bring keyboard-free computing to PCs and mobile phones with the acquisition of Israel-based Omek Interactive. Read More Astronaut's leaking helmet forces NASA to scrub spacewalk After just an hour of what should have been a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk, an astronaut's helmet leak forced NASA to cancel the mission on the International Space Station this morning. Read More Jive improves gamification, analytics in enterprise social suite Jive is rolling out of its software assembly line a new version of its enterprise social networking suite with enhanced gamification and sharper analytics, as well as deep integration with Salesforce.com's Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer and Evernote. Read More Toshiba to sell world's fastest SD cards this year Toshiba will soon launch the world's fastest SD cards, which will offer write speeds of up to 240MB/s. Read More Lenovo turns to software partnerships to expand server business Lenovo is expanding software partnerships as it tries to break into a server market dominated by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell. Read More Gigabit-boosted DSL Internet standard could be ready in 2014, ITU says A broadband standard that aims to support bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming Ultra-HDTV movies without the need to install fiber between the distribution point and people's homes met its first-stage approval, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said on Tuesday. Read More Preston Gralla: Will Chromebooks be the dagger in Windows 8's heart? Sales of Windows-based PCs may be plunging, but shipments of Chromebooks in the second half of the year are expected to rocket by as much as 200% to 300%, according to a just-released export. Acer, Lenovo, HP and Samsung will all be cashing in by launching new Chromebooks. How badly will Windows 8 be hurt? Read More JR Raphael: 7 hot Android launches on the horizon right now Summer may traditionally be the slow season for Android launches, but you wouldn't know it by watching the wave of hot devices about to splash onto shore. Read More
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