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	Zuckerberg's goal of connecting 5B people could take 20 years Mark Zuckerberg may want to connect another five billion people to the Internet, but industry analysts say effort is fraught with technology problems, as well as political and cultural issues, and would take years to roll out. Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware     Trust your virtualization with the leaders 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! In this Issue iPlastic: Purloined cases show in-color plastic iPhone 5C LG Display ups smartphone resolution to 2560 x 1440 on 5.5-inch screen Bradley Manning gets 35 years for classified document leaks With worker retirements looming, IT starts to prepare for a workforce exodus Box swivels to SMBs with new subscription plan Microsoft launches ad-free Bing search for schools Twitter's new Vine video service hits 40M users since January Tumblr issue causes incorrect posts to appear on users' blogs 'League of Legends' account, transaction data compromised Google seeks experts for its soon-to-launch Helpouts video service China arrests two for using the Internet to defame cultural icon Antone Gonsalves: Cybercrooks find ad networks and malware a profitable combo Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes Radio reminds us that music is a weapon Vaughn Stewart: Are you ready for software-defined storage? Preston Gralla: Free Surface RT tablets for schools: Should kids have to use what adults don't want? Darlene Storm: Manning sentenced to 35 years, more classified leaks on the way from Anonymous? WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. Making Voice a Successful Part of Your UC Rollout You've thought long and hard about the investment you're making in Unified Communications. We've compiled ten steps to streamline the audio aspect of your UC deployment. Putting an audio strategy in place now can help you plan, deploy and eventually drive higher adoption rates. Download our workbook now! Read Now! iPlastic: Purloined cases show in-color plastic iPhone 5C Apple will unveil a pair of iPhones next month, including a lower-priced smartphone with a plastic case in five color choices, according to reports from a Taiwanese news outlet. Read More LG Display ups smartphone resolution to 2560 x 1440 on 5.5-inch screen LG Display has developed a 5.5-inch screen for next generation smartphones with 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, the highest to date, according to the company. Read More Bradley Manning gets 35 years for classified document leaks A military court judge has sentenced U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison on Wednesday on charges related to his leaking a large store of classified documents to Wikileaks, according to a number of published and broadcast reports. Read More With worker retirements looming, IT starts to prepare for a workforce exodus With 10,000 U.S. baby boomers turning 65 every day until 2030, the IT industry is among those that must plan how its workforce will be impacted when these employees eventually retire. Read More Box swivels to SMBs with new subscription plan After spending the past two years beefing up its cloud storage and file sharing app for use in large enterprises, Box has turned its attention back to small and medium-size businesses with a new subscription plan. Read More Microsoft launches ad-free Bing search for schools Microsoft has launched an ad-free, no cost version of its Bing search engine that can be used in public and private schools across the U.S. Read More Twitter's new Vine video service hits 40M users since January Vine, the video service introduced by Twitter in January, now has 40 million registered users, it said Tuesday. Read More Tumblr issue causes incorrect posts to appear on users' blogs Tumblr is working to resolve an issue causing seemingly random content to be posted to people's blogs that they didn't put there themselves, with pornography showing up in some instances. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation     Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket Businesses From improved agility and efficiency, to better disaster recovery, midsize businesses are increasingly drawn to the benefits of the cloud. The 10-point checklist included in this expert brief has been developed to help small and midsize businesses select the cloud model and cloud services provider that is right for them. Learn more. 'League of Legends' account, transaction data compromised A portion of the North American user base of 'League of Legends' (LoL) had its account information compromised by hackers, according to Riot Games, the company developing the popular online multiplayer game. Passwords and credit card numbers stored in encrypted form were accessed, as well as other details. Read More Google seeks experts for its soon-to-launch Helpouts video service Google needs help. More specifically, the Internet giant is looking for people who are experts on basically anything to lead some of the first sessions for its soon-to-launch Helpouts video calling program. Read More China arrests two for using the Internet to defame cultural icon Chinese police have detained two Internet users for allegedly starting online rumors that tried to defame government groups and a cultural icon in the nation. Read More Antone Gonsalves: Cybercrooks find ad networks and malware a profitable combo Cybercriminals have discovered that the perfect backdoor to a smartphone is the ad network bundled with mobile apps. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes Radio reminds us that music is a weapon iTunes Radio is breaking cover as the all-new Apple streaming music service gets closer to launch. Here's what we know about the service, placed in the wider context of what's happening around music at the moment and put into perspective for its likely impact on Google, Spotify and Pandora. Read More Vaughn Stewart: Are you ready for software-defined storage? The software-defined data center is one of the technology trends that's kicking the industry into its next evolutionary stage. It's rife with innovation and has the potential to dramatically increase IT's agility when delivering services to operations, development teams and application owners. This, my first post here at the Clouds, Flash and Big Data blog, is an introduction to the software-defined data center in general, and in particular how it relates to storage resources. Read More     Preston Gralla: Free Surface RT tablets for schools: Should kids have to use what adults don't want? Microsoft's new "Bing for Schools" plan will give away Surface RT tablets to schools whose staff, children, and parents use an ad-free version of Bing. It sounds like a great idea -- but should schoolkids be using technology that parents and other adults have shown they don't want? Read More Darlene Storm: Manning sentenced to 35 years, more classified leaks on the way from Anonymous? Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, while absolutely nothing happens to those responsible for illegally spying on Americans. In fact, we learned that the NSA's surveillance system is capable of listening to 75% of U.S. Internet traffic. Meanwhile, the FBI feels confident that busting LulzSec has had a "huge deterrent effect" on other large-scale breaches by Anonymous AntiSec hackers. But after the crackdown on Manning and Edward Snowden, an Army officer and secret member of the hacking collective Anonymous says more leaks are on the way. Read More
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