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	Google wages war on Microsoft's Office with free iOS, Android apps Google on Thursday released new Android and iOS versions of its Quickoffice app, a mobile-only alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, and announced they are now free for the taking. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP Inside the Minds of Enterprise Mobile App Developers The success of smartphones introduced a new paradigm for developing applications that's having a broad and deep impact on application development tools and software architectures. Read Now! In this Issue 20 steps to a lean, clean machine HP offers support for Apple iPads Tech group asks 21 countries to disclose surveillance requests Coming and going -- not actually working -- reaps Nokia CEO $31.7M AT&T, Microsoft team to link business customers to Azure cloud Experts praise Pentagon's march to security standards Energy Department spends $30M to bolster utility cybersecurity tools Elon Musk: Tesla's driverless car will be street-ready in three years Richi Jennings: New iOS 7 security hack and other grumbles WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Make Backups Reliable, Available, and Secure Recent surveys have shown that almost half of today's data centers are using the same backup system architecture that was all the rage 20 years ago. The other half are using disk in some fashion. This Deep Dive will explain the evolving role of disk and tape, as well as how they can work together to bring you the best of both worlds. View now >> 20 steps to a lean, clean machine If your legacy laptop is showing signs of age, it could simply need some basic maintenance. Here's a step-by-step guide to how to clean out your system. Read More   HP offers support for Apple iPads Is your iPad out of warranty? Hewlett-Packard wants to help. Read More   Tech group asks 21 countries to disclose surveillance requests Countries that have pledged to support Internet freedom should allow technology vendors to report the number of electronic surveillance requests they receive, a tech advocacy group said Thursday. Read More   Coming and going -- not actually working -- reaps Nokia CEO $31.7M When the former head of Nokia returns to Microsoft sometime next year he will have pulled down $31.7 million from Nokia just for coming and going, according to regulatory filings. Read More   WEBCAST: Citrix Online Detecting and Dealing with Toxic Teams Join Paul Glen, CEO and author of Leading Geeks, on Thursday September 26 at 10AM PDT/ 1 PM EDT. as he explains the 5 warning signs that indicate you have a toxic team and how to restore your team to 100% health. Learn big solutions for big problems! View now AT&T, Microsoft team to link business customers to Azure cloud AT&T is putting the finishing touches on a service that connects its corporate customers' VPNs to Microsoft Azure services, eliminating the need to find separate links between business sites and Microsoft's cloud. Read More   Experts praise Pentagon's march to security standards   The Pentagon's decision to move its thousands of networks under a single security architecture is the right strategy to bolster defenses against hackers and malicious insiders, experts say. Read More   Energy Department spends $30M to bolster utility cybersecurity tools The Department of Energy today awarded $30 million to a 11 security vendors to develop technology the agency says will better protect nation's electric grid, oil and gas infrastructure from cyber-attack. Read More   Elon Musk: Tesla's driverless car will be street-ready in three years Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has raised the ante on the rest of the automobile industry, declaring in a recent interview with the Financial Times that his company's self-driving car will be street-ready by 2016. Read More   Richi Jennings: New iOS 7 security hack and other grumbles Jose "Barraquito" Rodriguez strikes again. Yet again, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) releases an iOS update with a lock-screen vulnerability. With apologies to Ian Fleming: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's incompetence. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get a serious case of déjà vu. Read More
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