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	Failed data feed system shutters Nasdaq trading Nasdaq's unprecedented trading halt today stemmed from a technical glitch with a core data feed that disseminates market data for Nasdaq-listed securities. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?      Using VMware NIC Teaming?      Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)      Get this essential FREE white paper now      11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff      Click to continue In this Issue Mayer's plan gets a boost as Yahoo tops Google Lenovo gives Windows 8 vote of no confidence by bundling Start menu stand-in Vicious cycle boosts use of browser-based ad blockers Self-driving carmakers will have to pry steering wheel from some cold, dead hands Update: Data glitch halts NASDAQ trades for over two hours Feds expand inquiry into Microsoft bribery, kickback allegations SAP user group lobbying leads to more flexible on-premises licensing policy Popular download management program has hidden DDoS component, researchers say Appcelerator gets API smarts with Singly buy Former Windows chief joins venture capital firm Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in Unified Communications Manager Software AG acquires JackBe for mashup tooling, real-time analytics Assessing BlackBerry CEO's July 2012 Predictions of Success Software AG buys JackBe for its mashup tooling, real-time analytics Preston Gralla: World's biggest PC maker disses Microsoft, adds real Start menu and app store to Windows 8 Jonny Evans: 3 ways Apple's new iPhones should change your life Peter Eicher: Are there data squirrels in your IT department? JR Raphael: What makes the Moto X so special WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware   Your IT Journey - Your Way Faced with unrelenting pressure to do more with less, IT leaders are implementing virtualization, mobility and cloud computing in their enterprises. In this Knowledge Vault Exchange you'll find a plethora of valuable information, including videos, on-demand Webcasts, white papers and Twitter chats. View Now! Mayer's plan gets a boost as Yahoo tops Google For the first time since 2011, Yahoo, a company that had slipped to being a has-been in the online world, topped Internet behemoth Google in Web traffic last month, according to Internet tracker comScore Inc. Read More   Lenovo gives Windows 8 vote of no confidence by bundling Start menu stand-in Lenovo, the world's largest computer maker, announced today that its Windows 8 PCs will come bundled with the Pokki Start button and menu replacement, along with its desktop mode-oriented app store. Read More   Vicious cycle boosts use of browser-based ad blockers Nearly one in four browsers are now armed with an ad-blocking tool, reducing revenue at free-content websites, an Irish company said today Read More   Self-driving carmakers will have to pry steering wheel from some cold, dead hands The prospect of self-driving cars within the next decade is beginning to stir up resistance in the blogosphere, with many saying auto makers will have to pry the steering wheel from their 'cold, dead hands' before they'll give up their ability to control their own vehicles. Read More   Update: Data glitch halts NASDAQ trades for over two hours All trading on the NASDAQ market was halted on Thursday for more than two hours due to a glitch in a system used to disseminate trading information. Trades were set to resume by mid-afternoon. Read More   Feds expand inquiry into Microsoft bribery, kickback allegations A U.S. government investigation into allegations that Microsoft or its business partners have bribed officials or handed out kickbacks to close deals has expanded to include Russia and Pakistan, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read More   SAP user group lobbying leads to more flexible on-premises licensing policy SAP has made the second change to its software licensing policies within a month following a long-term lobbying effort by user groups, and while the move will give customers more flexibility, certain limitations apply. Read More   Popular download management program has hidden DDoS component, researchers say Recent versions of Orbit Downloader, a popular Windows program for downloading embedded media content and other types of files from websites, turns computers into bots and uses them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to security researchers. Read More   Appcelerator gets API smarts with Singly buy Mobile application development tools vendor Appcelerator has acquired Singly, a provider of API (application programming interface) management software, the two companies announced. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More. Former Windows chief joins venture capital firm Steven Sinofsky, who abruptly left Microsoft weeks after his Windows 8 brainchild shipped, has found a new gig at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Read More   Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in Unified Communications Manager Cisco Systems has released new security patches for several versions of Unified Communications Manager (UCM) to address vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, modify system data or disrupt services. Read More   Software AG acquires JackBe for mashup tooling, real-time analytics Software AG is adding mashup and real-time analytic capabilities to its lineup with the acquisition of JackBe. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed. Read More   Assessing BlackBerry CEO's July 2012 Predictions of Success In July 2012, I had a long, thoughtful chat with BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins about everything BlackBerry. Our conversation came at a crucial time for the company. The BlackBerry 10 OS had already been delayed multiple times, the company was at the center of endless doom-and-gloom rumors and Heins, who took on the chief executive reins just six months earlier, had a whole lot to prove. (Read the full Q&A with Heins here.) Read More   Software AG buys JackBe for its mashup tooling, real-time analytics Software AG is adding mashup and real-time analytic capabilities to its lineup with the acquisition of JackBe. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed. Read More   Preston Gralla: World's biggest PC maker disses Microsoft, adds real Start menu and app store to Windows 8 Users want a real Start menu on Windows 8, and Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, is happy to oblige. It just announced that Lenovo PCs will come with the Pokki app, which includes a real Start button and menu, not the useless Start button that will ship with Windows 8.1. Even worse for Microsoft: It lets users bypass the Windows Store to download apps and games. Read More   Jonny Evans: 3 ways Apple's new iPhones should change your life   I know I should be writing about those new iPhones and those dubious images rumor sites are making so much money with as they publish them. What's sad is that as they fetishize the iPhone as an object they completely miss its significance as solution, and that's what I am going to talk about -- three ways the new iPhones are about to change lives. Read More   Peter Eicher: Are there data squirrels in your IT department? Believe it or not, your IT department is probably full of squirrels. No, not those cute fuzzy critters that climb trees, but data consumers that hide data away with the same relentless fortitude as their bushy tailed namesakes hide acorns. Read More   JR Raphael: What makes the Moto X so special The Moto X succeeds where so many smartphones fail -- and its triumph has nothing to do with any particular spec or feature. Read More
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