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	Big-hitter investors want Gates out as Microsoft chairman   A trio of the top 20 investors in Microsoft, anxious about the selection of the company's next CEO, have asked the board to push Bill Gates out of his chairman's spot, according to a report by Reuters. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Moovweb The Next Generation of Mobile In this tech dossier from Moovweb, learn about responsive web delivery, an approach to mobile development that can reduce costs and increase agility so companies can build great mobile solutions without the big rewrite of their existing sites. Read now! In this Issue Dell launches four new tablets -- all on Intel chips FBI busts operator of Silk Road, seizes $3.6M in Bitcoins Apple faces repeat of iMac sales fiasco if Retina iPad Mini supplies are tight House Democrats push ahead on immigration, H-1B Facebook's Sandberg takes on the tech gender gap U.S. opposes company requests to publish surveillance stats Senator vows fierce defense of NSA data collection, surveillance programs Monsanto bets nearly $1 billion on big data analytics WD rolls out secure My Cloud drive, media hub Box pages developers: Give healthcare industry a shot of innovation HP says open sourcing SDNs is wrong Report: HTC, Qualcomm reworking HTC One chip design after import ban threat Universities join IBM in cognitive computing research project Cisco CEO Chambers gets 80% pay raise Sharon Gaudin: Scientists getting closer to building Star Wars-like lightsabers Rob Walker: Using predictive analytics to make your data actionable (part 2) JR Raphael: Note 3 in the real world: The first things you notice about Samsung's new phone Preston Gralla: Is Bill Gates next on the Microsoft chopping block? Jonny Evans: FCC 'Obamacare' shutdown may delay Apple's new iPads WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc The Shape of Email Our "Shape of Email" research attempts, for the first time, to describe the content of a typical corporate inbox in terms of its importance and relevance to the user. Learn More Dell launches four new tablets -- all on Intel chips Dell introduced four new low-cost tablets on Wednesday that run on Intel processors, shutting out ARM-based processors from its launch. Read More   FBI busts operator of Silk Road, seizes $3.6M in Bitcoins   The FBI arrested Ross Ulbricht, the owner and operator of "Silk Road," an underground website that allegedly generated close to $1.2 billion in revenue in the past 30 months by trafficking in illegal drugs, malware tools, hacking services and other illicit items. Read More   Apple faces repeat of iMac sales fiasco if Retina iPad Mini supplies are tight Even if Apple has few high-resolution iPad Mini tablets to sell in November, it will still unveil the new device this month, risking a repeat of last year's iMac debacle, an analyst argued today. Read More   House Democrats push ahead on immigration, H-1B U.S. House Democrats are attempting to restart debate on a comprehensive immigration reform in the midst of the government shutdown. Read More   Facebook's Sandberg takes on the tech gender gap Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said today that women need to stick together, support each other and be willing to talk about gender to bolster the number of women in the tech industry. Read More   U.S. opposes company requests to publish surveillance stats The U.S. Department of Justice has opposed requests by Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other companies to publish the number of surveillance requests they receive from the U.S. National Security Agency and other agencies. Read More   Senator vows fierce defense of NSA data collection, surveillance programs Massive data collection and surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency are necessary to keep the nation safe from terrorism, several senators said Wednesday. Read More   Monsanto bets nearly $1 billion on big data analytics Agribusiness giant Monsanto is paying $930 million to acquire the Climate Corporation, maker of a software platform that crunches weather-related data in order to help farmers more effectively grow crops. Read More   WD rolls out secure My Cloud drive, media hub WD today announced My Cloud, an Internet-connected hard drive that is available in 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB capacities and offers a simple setup. Read More   WEBCAST: HP HP Webcast: Mobile Application Development Join John Jeremiah, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, HP and John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC for an interactive discussion on the results of the HP Mobile Application Development Maturity Peer Assessment Tool. Date: September 18 @ 1:00pm EDT Register Now Box pages developers: Give healthcare industry a shot of innovation To inject variety, volume and quality into health applications, Box has teamed up with Dignity Health and The Social+Capital Partnership on a developer contest. Read More   HP says open sourcing SDNs is wrong Vendors such as Juniper Networks that are open sourcing their SDN controllers are pursuing a wrongheaded strategy that misses the point of the technology, HP officials said this week. Read More   Report: HTC, Qualcomm reworking HTC One chip design after import ban threat HTC and Qualcomm are reworking a radio chip for the HTC One smartphone in order to avoid a U.S. ban on imports of patent-infringing technology, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Read More   Universities join IBM in cognitive computing research project IBM and four universities are planning a research project into cognitive computing, which seeks to build computers that operate in a manner closer to the human mind. Read More   Cisco CEO Chambers gets 80% pay raise Cisco CEO John Chambers saw his compensation nearly double this year, topping $21 million. His salary more than tripled, and the value of his stock awards doubled. Read More   Sharon Gaudin: Scientists getting closer to building Star Wars-like lightsabers A group of MIT and Harvard scientists took a big step toward being able to build a real-life lightsaber. Read More   Rob Walker: Using predictive analytics to make your data actionable (part 2) Predictive analytics is no longer exclusive to large enterprises, but many of these global operations have been able to take their use of predictive analytics to the next level simply because they are more mature in their use of the technology and started managing their data earlier. But predictive models are pretty useless by themselves. Read More   JR Raphael: Note 3 in the real world: The first things you notice about Samsung's new phone What's the Galaxy Note 3 actually like to use in the real world? Here are some initial impressions of Samsung's new plus-sized phone. Read More   Preston Gralla: Is Bill Gates next on the Microsoft chopping block?   Three of Microsoft's most powerful investors are pressing the company's board to force Bill Gates to step down as chairman. Are they right -- is it really time for Gates to go? Read More   Jonny Evans: FCC 'Obamacare' shutdown may delay Apple's new iPads   The US governemt shutdown may delay introduction of new iPads, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been forced to cease new product approvals, pending resolution of the crisis. Read More
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