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	Decline of Digital Equipment offers lessons for Microsoft   Microsoft has piled up so many stresses on its corporate body in the last 10 months that it must beat almost insurmountable odds to remain healthy and viable, a business strategist said today. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM and Intel IBM Delivers Innovation On New x86 Systems and Solutions Live Webcast: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:00 PM EDT You need an IT infrastructure that provides scalability, performance and efficiency tailored to the specific goals of your business. Join us on September 10 to learn more about IBM's new innovation designed to provide the performance and efficiency required for today's workloads. Register Now In this Issue To launch a Kindle smartphone, Amazon needs wireless patents and carriers Microsoft sticks to guns, will unveil refreshed Surface on Sept. 23 Fatal distraction: 7 IT mistakes that will get you fired Seagate unveils a hard drive for tablets, shuns SSDs Harvard, MIT join on artificial intelligence research Facebook, Google, Yahoo ask the feds to break out more data requests In reversal, Microsoft gives snarling developers Win 8.1 RTM to chew on Intel ships Haswell processors for tablets Verizon argues it should be able to block websites Icahn withdrawal clears Dell buyout path Facebook offers real-time feed of user data to online and TV news PostgreSQL 9.3 works well with others Business Objects update adds stability, data source support WLAN growth slows after companies rush 802.11n upgrades Intel targets enterprise, SMBs with new Professional SSDs Jeff Baxter: Government agencies need to scale data storage, but up or out? Michael Horowitz: Find the IP address of your home router Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5S queues appear as true believers hope to scan their fingers Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft really need to kill Windows Phone in order to survive? 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 >> To launch a Kindle smartphone, Amazon needs wireless patents and carriers Amazon won't be ready to launch its much-anticipated Kindle smartphone until it builds up an ample portfolio of wireless-related patents and more relationships with mobile operators, an analyst said Monday. Read More   Microsoft sticks to guns, will unveil refreshed Surface on Sept. 23 Microsoft will host an event Sept. 23 to introduce new Surface tablets, which are likely to go on sale on Oct. 18. Read More   Fatal distraction: 7 IT mistakes that will get you fired   It's hard to get a good job in IT these days, but it's all too easy to lose one. Read More   Seagate unveils a hard drive for tablets, shuns SSDs Seagate has unveiled a new hard drive with up to 500GB of space that will give tablets PC-like storage, while offering the same power, performance and reliability of an SSD. Read More   Harvard, MIT join on artificial intelligence research The National Science Foundation has awarded a $25 million grant to Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study how the brain creates intelligence and how that process can be replicated in machines. Read More   Facebook, Google, Yahoo ask the feds to break out more data requests Facebook, Google and Yahoo on Monday filed petitions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as part of a renewed collective effort to provide more information to their users about government data requests. Read More   In reversal, Microsoft gives snarling developers Win 8.1 RTM to chew on After developers and IT pros pelted Microsoft with complaints, the company has backtracked and decided to grant them access to the latest Windows 8.1 build instead of making them wait until mid-October. Read More   Intel ships Haswell processors for tablets After promising to bring power-efficient Haswell processors to tablets, Intel has now started shipping new low-power, fourth-generation Core i3 processors, including one that draws as little as 4.5 watts of power in specific usage scenarios. Read More   Verizon argues it should be able to block websites Verizon Communications should be able to block its broadband customers from going to websites that refuse to pay the provider to deliver their traffic, a lawyer for Verizon told an appeals court Monday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: PC Connection   BYOD Survey of IT Professionals Today, employees expect access to data from consumer electronics like tablets and smartphones. Like many IT professionals, you may want to offer your users the option to work from their own computing devices. Begin your BYOD journey by learning how organizations like yours embrace mobility. Learn more. Icahn withdrawal clears Dell buyout path After a long battle, Carl Icahn and associates admitted they were fighting a losing battle and have stepped away from their attempt to buy Dell. Read More   Facebook offers real-time feed of user data to online and TV news Facebook revealed a new tool that enables news organisations to tap into user comments and display them online or on TV in real-time. Read More   PostgreSQL 9.3 works well with others For this year's annual update to PostgreSQL, the developers behind the open source database have added several new ways to communicate with other databases and data storage systems. Read More   Business Objects update adds stability, data source support SAP has unveiled a new version of its Business Objects BI software suite that features support for more than 140 data sources and the promise of more stable deployments. Read More   WLAN growth slows after companies rush 802.11n upgrades   Because many enterprises have already upgraded their networks to the 802.11n standard, sales growth in the enterprise wireless LAN sector was cut in half during the second quarter, according to Infonetics Research. Read More   Intel targets enterprise, SMBs with new Professional SSDs   Intel will launch a new family of SSDs at this week's Intel Developer Forum, offering security and remote management features for enterprise and small-business client devices. Read More   Jeff Baxter: Government agencies need to scale data storage, but up or out? As government agencies sit at roughly the midway point in their march to meeting the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) target to consolidate at least 1,200 data centers by 2015, there is evidence of tangible results and a recognition that significant challenges lie ahead. Read More   Michael Horowitz: Find the IP address of your home router Re-configuring a router, my upcoming topic, requires first knowing its IP address. Here is a cheat sheet for learning the router IP address from any computing device. Read More   Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5S queues appear as true believers hope to scan their fingers iPhone queues have appeared outside Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store in New York as the company gets ready to end months of speculation when it reveals its iPhone plans tomorrow and the latest leaked images suggest the new phones will indeed carry a fingerprint sensor. Read More   Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft really need to kill Windows Phone in order to survive? A prominent analyst claims that if Microsoft is to thrive, it needs to abandon Windows Phone, despite the recent $7.2-billion Nokia purchase. Does he have it right, or would killing Windows Phone do even more damage to the company? Read More
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