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	PC industry woes worsen as 'phenomenal transition' shrinks shipment numbers The PC industry's problems continue to worsen, research firm IDC said yesterday as it again lowered shipment forecasts for the year. And the personal computer business's problems are Microsoft's problems. Read More   WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware   The Cloud: Why the Hybrid Cloud May Be Best A combination of the public and private cloud, the hybrid cloud fits the needs of a broad range of enterprises. View Now! In this Issue Microsoft sets $100 Surface Pro discounts in stone U.S. appetite for Internet user data not unique Windows 8.1 won't rescue PC market this year, IDC says Can China's Xiaomi make it globally? Beyond Google Glass: The wearable tech that will revolutionize business Samsung starts mass production of DDR4 memory Jonny Evans: Apple's Post-PC Fall begins, Microsoft's doesn't Verizon Wireless buyout drive is all about the money Imagination to battle ARM with MIPS server chips vBulletin users warned of potential exploit NIST releases draft cybersecurity framework to more public scrutiny Richi Jennings: Does this mega-VC sound racist? WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Resolve Performance Issues Within Your Citrix Environment Citrix offers significant benefits to IT organizations but alters the performance troubleshooting process due to its unique architecture. Breakthrough new technology flips the Citrix performance management paradigm on its head by providing unprecedented end-to-end visibility of user transactions traversing a Citrix server. Read Now Microsoft sets $100 Surface Pro discounts in stone Microsoft made permanent the $100 price cut to its Surface Pro tablet that it ran as a temporary sale through most of August. Read More   U.S. appetite for Internet user data not unique For all the privacy concerns raised by Edward Snowden's leaks about government data collection activities, the U.S. is not alone or even the most demanding when it comes to law enforcement requests for customer data from Internet service providers. Read More   Windows 8.1 won't rescue PC market this year, IDC says The PC market will weaken even further this year and Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.1 OS will be unable to reverse the drop in shipments, IDC said. Read More   Can China's Xiaomi make it globally? Like other Chinese brands, Xiaomi doesn't have the easiest name for Westerners to pronounce. But on Thursday, the name was spoken worldwide after the company hired a former Google executive to lead its global expansion. Read More   Beyond Google Glass: The wearable tech that will revolutionize business From heads-up displays to implantable silicon, a brave new business world of innovative wearable tech is fast taking shape. Read More   Samsung starts mass production of DDR4 memory Samsung Electronics has started mass producing DDR4 memory that it expects will go into enterprise servers in next-generation data centers. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Proof that Smarter Government is also Better Government This videocast on October 9 at noon ET will give you a rare opportunity to hear from your peers & IBM experts about the power of business analytics to make your budgeting and finance processes as fast, accurate and transparent as you need them to be. Learn More. Jonny Evans: Apple's Post-PC Fall begins, Microsoft's doesn't   We're reaching the end of summer when Apple is expected to begin a flow of fresh temptations designed to give the company top billing in the post-PC world. Meanwhile, Microsoft has lost the game. The new haulage company Read More   Verizon Wireless buyout drive is all about the money   The price Verizon might pay to buy out its mobile subsidiary, reportedly $100 billion or more, is the most important thing that mobile users need to know about the potential deal. Read More   Imagination to battle ARM with MIPS server chips Imagination Technologies, the UK company that designs the graphics chips for the iPhone and iPad, will release a new CPU design next year for low-power servers, the company's CEO said this week. Read More   vBulletin users warned of potential exploit The developers of the popular vBulletin commercial Internet forum software are investigating a potential exploit and advised users to delete the "install" directory from their deployments as a precaution. Read More   NIST releases draft cybersecurity framework to more public scrutiny Following through on an order earlier this year from President Obama, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is rapidly developing a set of guidelines and best practices to help organizations better secure their IT systems. Read More   Richi Jennings: Does this mega-VC sound racist? Paul Graham: "Don't say things people want to misunderstand." Is Y-Combinator-founder Paul Graham a racist? Twice this year, the big-cheese VC has been quoted as saying that people with foreign accents often make lousy startup CEOs. Amazingly, he's unrepentant, denying he said anything remotely racist, and telling his critics that they "want to misunderstand" his point. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dig out the Picard double-facepalm meme. Read More
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