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	Healthcare.gov website 'didn't have a chance in hell' A majority of large IT projects fail to meet deadlines, are over budget and don't make their users happy. Such is the case with Healthcare.gov. Read More   WEBCAST: HP HP Webcast: Mobile Application Development More than 50% of custom mobile apps have been deployed by business units without IT oversight. The results of this Mobile App Development Survey highlight the responses of 208 IT leaders surveyed by IDC. Hear how your peers are grappling with app testing processes, cross-platform development approaches, performance and security concerns. View Now In this Issue Analyst pumps Tuesday's iPad reveal as 'most important upgrade' since 2010 Google closes in on mastering mobile Microsoft offers help for bricked Surface RT tablets Tablets shipments to mushroom by 53% in 2013 BlackBerry Messenger relaunches for Android, iPhone after month delay Relax. Monday morning Facebook outage is over Obamacare website issues will be fixed, president promises Twitter says open source tools preventing service disruptions France summons US ambassador over NSA spy allegations Mexico condemns alleged NSA hacking of president's email Nokia counts on larger screens to help keep up momentum Java forever! 12 keys to Java's enduring dominance Wikipedia bans 250 accounts on pay-for-article concerns SAP reports strong Q3 revenue growth on HANA and cloud Yorgen Edholm: The growing problem of constant mobile access Antone Gonsalves: How governments will help criminals build mobile malware Jonny Evans: 10 great apps and services for boosting your business Preston Gralla: Windows worldwide market share is stuck at 15% and falling Darlene Storm: Hack in the Box: Researchers attack ship tracking systems for fun and profit RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2013 IT Roadmap Washington, D.C. - Dates Announced IT Roadmap will be returning to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Thursday, December 12, 2013. 8am - 4:30pm. Register now for this free one day, technical conference and expo! Click to continue Analyst pumps Tuesday's iPad reveal as 'most important upgrade' since 2010 Apple's expected unveiling tomorrow of new iPads will be the "most important upgrade since the original," a bullish Wall Street analyst contended today. Read More   Google closes in on mastering mobile Google may be the Internet company getting closest to figuring out mobile -- with a slew of mobile YouTube users and increasing smartphone ad clicks -- but it still hasn't quite mastered it yet. Read More   Microsoft offers help for bricked Surface RT tablets Microsoft yesterday published instructions for resurrecting a Surface RT that had been bricked by the Windows 8.1 update, along with a recovery image that must be loaded onto a USB flash drive. Read More   Tablets shipments to mushroom by 53% in 2013 Tablets shipments will soar ahead by 53% in 2013 as desktop and laptop shipments decline by 11%, research firm Gartner forecast on Monday. Read More   BlackBerry Messenger relaunches for Android, iPhone after month delay Nearly a month after problems delayed release of its BlackBerry Messenger apps for iPhone and Android, BlackBerry said it had relaunched the app on Monday. Read More   Relax. Monday morning Facebook outage is over Unable to post updates or send direct messages on Facebook today? Don't panic. You weren't alone. Read More   Obamacare website issues will be fixed, president promises More than a half million U.S. residents have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act despite ongoing problems with HealthCare.gov, one of the main ways to shop for the new health plans, President Obama said Monday. Read More   Twitter says open source tools preventing service disruptions To prevent disruptions and scale up its service while keeping costs down, Twitter has had to drastically change its core infrastructure, taking up open source tools while doing so. Read More   France summons US ambassador over NSA spy allegations French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has summoned the U.S. ambassador to explain allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent and gathered data on millions of phone calls. Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation   Backup and Recovery Changes This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation. Learn More Mexico condemns alleged NSA hacking of president's email   The Mexican government has condemned newly reported spying activities of the U.S. National Security Agency against the country's former president while he was in office. Read More   Nokia counts on larger screens to help keep up momentum   In what could turn out to be its last big event before Microsoft takes over, Nokia on Tuesday is expected to add large-screen smartphones and a tablet to its Lumia family as well as upgrade its portfolio of low-cost smartphones. Read More   Java forever! 12 keys to Java's enduring dominance It's easy to forget the value of any given technology once its buzz has arced across our collective consciousness and died a fiery death beyond the hype horizon. Take Cobol, that "Mad Men"-era relic -- just like fish past its prime, as the hipster tech pundits say: worthless, smelly, out of date, bad for you. Java may be the next enterprise mainstay to find itself on the ropes of "relevance." Read More   Wikipedia bans 250 accounts on pay-for-article concerns   Amid news reports of groups paying users to write Wikipedia entries, the online encyclopedia has blocked or banned more than 250 accounts, the site announced Monday. Read More   SAP reports strong Q3 revenue growth on HANA and cloud SAP reported strong revenue growth in its HANA in-memory database and cloud businesses, but also saw revenue from software decline in the third quarter. Read More   Yorgen Edholm: The growing problem of constant mobile access In today's world a buzzing smartphone takes priority over anything else going on in the room, and it's a growing pet peeve of mine. If I'm having a face-to-face conversation with someone it should have priority, yet this doesn't hold true for a significant number of my coworkers. Read More   Antone Gonsalves: How governments will help criminals build mobile malware Government-sponsored hackers in cyberespionalge campaigns will likely build some of the best mobile malware, which is sure to trickle down to the criminal underground. Read More   Jonny Evans: 10 great apps and services for boosting your business While we wait on the big Apple reveal tomorrow, it seemed logical to write something more useful than repeating previous speculation, so I've curated a short list of essential apps and services designed to make you more effective professionally. Read More   Preston Gralla: Windows worldwide market share is stuck at 15% and falling Windows, which once had a near-monopoly on computer operating systems, has shrunk to a 15% market share for sales of new devices. So concludes Gartner's most recent report, and it doesn't appear Windows will ever get back above 15%. Read More   Darlene Storm: Hack in the Box: Researchers attack ship tracking systems for fun and profit What happens when a protocol is designed without a single thought to security? It is full of vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited of course. At Hack in the Box security conference, researchers demonstrated numerous attacks on Automated Identification Systems (AIS), a mandatory global tracking system for about 400,000 ships. They warned that pirates or terrorists can easily hack it. Read More
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