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	Amazon website, mobile apps down in hourlong outage Just as many people are doing their back-to-school shopping, Amazon.com's website crashed for the better part of an hour today. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Symantec What to Look for in Data Protection Efficient backup and quick recovery of virtual systems and the host systems they run on is essential to maintaining business productivity and cost savings that server virtualization delivers. Read this white paper to discover the 'must-have' features to ensure the best backup recovery solutions. Read now! In this Issue U.S. consumers pick MacBook as their preferred next laptop Google pushes Glass release date back to 2014 Thunderbolt drive shipments surge, but USB still reigns 10 highest paying IT careers for 2013 Twitter rolls out headlines feature to give tweets more context Kansas startup tackles smartphone interference Attackers use Ramnit malware to target Steam users HP joins Nvidia's Grid alliance Oracle unveils HTML5-based mobile BI app designer Jonny Evans: Why Microsoft needs to worry about Google Glass Preston Gralla: Is Samsung riding in to save Windows Phone? Yorgen Edholm: Mobile management 101: Delegating to a distracted team Darlene Storm: Tweaked Zeus: Fake Instagram 'likes' are worth more $ than stolen credit card numbers JR Raphael: Moto X vs. Droid Ultra: A real-world comparison WEBCAST: Workday, Inc. The Business Value of Human Capital Management for Finance See how a lack of integration between finance and HR can impede progress in reaching business and financial goals. View now >> U.S. consumers pick MacBook as their preferred next laptop American consumers named Apple as the most likely brand of their next notebook purchase, but a resurgent Dell easily captured future honors for desktop PCs, according to a survey published today Read More   Google pushes Glass release date back to 2014 Google sources have backed away from earlier projections that the company's Glass wearable computer would ship later this year. Read More   Thunderbolt drive shipments surge, but USB still reigns   Single disk drive shipments continue to surpass all other storage devices, such as RAIDed NAS systems, for personal data storage, while shipments of hardware with the Thunderbolt interface surged in the past year. Read More   10 highest paying IT careers for 2013 According to recent reports, IT job growth is up 43 percent since 2012. Find out what jobs are commanding the highest pay within the ever-competitive IT job market. Read More   Twitter rolls out headlines feature to give tweets more context Twitter has announced a new feature designed to give people a better sense of the context behind the site's characteristically short, 140-character tweets. Read More   Kansas startup tackles smartphone interference Future smartphones could gain numerous benefits from algorithms to fight interference, developed by a little-known startup in Lawrence, Kan., that last week drew closer to implementing the technology in devices. Read More   Attackers use Ramnit malware to target Steam users A new variant of the Ramnit financial malware is using local Web browser injections in order to steal log-in credentials for Steam accounts, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SAP A Mobility Action Plan to Get You from Here to Everywhere Mobile provides a new way of doing business that promises productivity gains, real-time decision making and improved customer service. But how do you get there? This ebook offers a three-phased executive action plan for adopting mobile in the enterprise. View Now HP joins Nvidia's Grid alliance Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia's growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments. Read More   Oracle unveils HTML5-based mobile BI app designer Oracle is latching onto the self-service BI (business intelligence) trend with a new tool for creating HTML5-based mobile applications. Read More   Jonny Evans: Why Microsoft needs to worry about Google Glass Microsoft is failing in the mobile space -- Surface is skin deep -- but it's looking in the wrong direction if it really wants to make a difference, you see, it's not Apple it should be emulating, but Google, specifically, Google Glass. Read More   Preston Gralla: Is Samsung riding in to save Windows Phone? A new Samsung Windows Phone has been sighted, and although its specs aren't spectacular, it's one piece of evidence that Samsung may finally pay serious attention to Windows Phone. If so, that could help boost Microsoft's smartphone OS, which currently has a 3.3% worldwide market share. Read More   Yorgen Edholm: Mobile management 101: Delegating to a distracted team Does your management team have what it takes to lead and manage a mobile workforce? Learn how to evolve your managment skills to fit into our mobile-enabled world. Read More   Darlene Storm: Tweaked Zeus: Fake Instagram 'likes' are worth more $ than stolen credit card numbers Popularity on social networking sites has become so important that cyber fraudsters have tweaked a version of the Zeus trojan to sell fake "followers" and "likes" for the photo-sharing app Instagram. It makes them more money than selling stolen credit card numbers. Read More   JR Raphael: Moto X vs. Droid Ultra: A real-world comparison Using the Moto X and Droid Ultra together is really quite fascinating: The phones are incredibly similar, but the experience of using them couldn't be more different. Read More
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