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	Hurry up and wait: Why Microsoft's holding Windows 8.1 Microsoft's decision to sit on Windows 8.1 for two months after engineers wrap up work was driven by the year's biggest sales cycles, analysts said. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS TDWI Report: 7 Steps to Advanced Analytics What are the keys to advanced analytics success? This TDWI report focuses on how organizations can align data management practices and technologies with requirements for advanced analytics. Learn More In this Issue 2 Windows 8 touch-screen laptops for tight budgets Obama and Romney big data experts continue the battle as businesses JR Raphael: How to bring Google Voice Search to your desktop browser Cisco to slash 4,000 jobs in 'rebalancing' plan Cisco posts revenue, profit gains, continues push beyond networks Microsoft yanks troublesome Exchange security patch Lenovo sold more smartphone and tablets than PCs in Q1 Samsung unveils dual-screen, quad-core flip-phone in China IBM is buying endpoint security company Trusteer Hackers target servers running Apache Struts apps JohnWThompson: Data center consolidation: Lessons learned along the way Facebook's Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map Microsoft to push Surface tablets to businesses in Canada and Europe Jonny Evans: Google StreetView quits the street to capture UK history Intel proposes new standard to light up data transfers Richi Jennings: NY Times website down for HOURS. Hacked by China again? WEBCAST: ServiceNow Service-Oriented Cloud Automation During this webinar, you will discover how ServiceNow is enabling organizations to increase their competitive agility, user satisfaction and productivity, all while enhancing IT's value to the business. View Now! 2 Windows 8 touch-screen laptops for tight budgets Windows 8 is workable with a normal display, but better with a touch screen. If you don't want to spend much on a new laptop, try one of these low-cost systems. Read More Obama and Romney big data experts continue the battle as businesses The self-described nerds of President Obama's presidential campaign last year were back using big data analytics, this time to help Newark Mayor Cory Booker achieve a landside primary win Tuesday in the New Jersey Democratic primary for a vacant U.S. Senate seat. Read More JR Raphael: How to bring Google Voice Search to your desktop browser Google Voice Search just got a lot more powerful -- and with one simple tweak, you can make it a core part of your desktop browsing experience. Read More Cisco to slash 4,000 jobs in 'rebalancing' plan Cisco Systems announced Wednesday it will eliminate about 4,000 jobs, saying it needs to pare down middle management to speed up decision-making and execution. Read More Cisco posts revenue, profit gains, continues push beyond networks Cisco Systems revenue and profit increased in the company's fourth quarter compared to a year earlier as the company continued its push to transcend its networking roots and become the world's top IT company. Read More Microsoft yanks troublesome Exchange security patch Citing installation issues and inadequate testing, Microsoft has withdrawn an Exchange Server 2013 security update that it issued earlier this week as part of its "Patch Tuesday" release cycle. Read More Lenovo sold more smartphone and tablets than PCs in Q1 Lenovo's sales of tablets and smartphones were higher than that of PCs in its fiscal first quarter, reflecting the company's efforts to reduce its dependence on the ailing PC business. Read More Samsung unveils dual-screen, quad-core flip-phone in China Samsung unveiled an Android flip-phone with dual-touchscreens in China, which will likely be positioned as a premium device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read More! IBM is buying endpoint security company Trusteer IBM has signed an agreement to acquire security company Trusteer and plans to set up a cybersecurity software lab in Israel. Read More Hackers target servers running Apache Struts apps Chinese hackers are using an automated tool to exploit known vulnerabilities in Apache Struts, in order to install backdoors on servers hosting applications developed with the framework. Read More JohnWThompson: Data center consolidation: Lessons learned along the way Thoughtful and strategic data center consolidation can enable better agility, improve asset utilization levels and drive significant cost savings. Read More Facebook's Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map Move over Hadoop, there is another highly scalable data processing powerhouse in town: Apache Giraph. Facebook is using the technology to bring a new style of search to its billion users. Read More Microsoft to push Surface tablets to businesses in Canada and Europe Microsoft will start selling its struggling Surface devices to business customers abroad via channel partners on Thursday. Read More Jonny Evans: Google StreetView quits the street to capture UK history The world is coming to StreetView, including the beautiful yet hard to reach parts of it, thanks to a backpack-carried "Trekker" photography system and Google Maps, with the latest venture setting out to capture the historically fascinating canal banks and riversides of the UK. Read More Intel proposes new standard to light up data transfers Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centers. Read More Richi Jennings: NY Times website down for HOURS. Hacked by China again? Rent-a-quotes yell "Cyber Attack!" The New York Times website went down for more than two hours yesterday. It limped along for a few hours after it came back. Naturally, this led some to speculate that China has been up to its old tricks again. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers blog the meta-news. 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