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	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 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 Darlene Storm: Hacking the Internet of Things at DerbyCon: Weaponizing your coffee pot Sharon Gaudin: Astronauts, Mars rovers not lost in space during gov't shutdown Antone Gonsalves: Why we fear the mobile wallet Preston Gralla: It's over -- Internet Explorer won the browser war. Does it matter? Marian Cook: Top picks from Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Leadership and customer focus Sharky: Good thing IT doesn't matter, huh? WEBCAST: Dell VMware An End-to-End Approach to Data Protection Traditional approaches to data protection are no longer enough. Why not? Because data volumes are exploding. Because there's little or no tolerance for data loss and downtime. View Now Darlene Storm: Hacking the Internet of Things at DerbyCon: Weaponizing your coffee pot If you are not a morning person, then you might be a bit brain-dead until you have serious doses of caffeine. So if your high-tech coffee pot connected to the Internet of Things had been hijacked by a bad guy, how would you even know if it, or another of your connected appliances, were being used against you? At the security conference DerbyCon 3.0, Daniel Buentello gave a very interesting presentation titled "Weaponizing your coffee pot." Read More Sharon Gaudin: Astronauts, Mars rovers not lost in space during gov't shutdown Don't worry. Gov't shutdown doesn't leave astronauts or Mars rovers lost in space. Read More Antone Gonsalves: Why we fear the mobile wallet Despite advances in technology, people still trust their back pockets to keep their credit cards safe more than their smartphones. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation         Proof that Smarter Government is also Better Government This videocast on October 23 at noon ET will give you a rare opportunity to hear from your peers & IBM experts about the power of business analytics to make your budgeting and finance processes as fast, accurate and transparent as you need them to be. Learn More. Preston Gralla: It's over -- Internet Explorer won the browser war. Does it matter? Once upon a time Firefox and Chrome could have become king of the desktop browsers. No longer. Internet Explorer remains at the top of the heap, and it's gaining browser share each month. IE has clearly won the desktop browser war. But does it really matter? Read More Marian Cook: Top picks from Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Leadership and customer focus When I first signed up for Oracle OpenWorld, I had my doubts as to its value for the business and IT executive. I assumed it would be too tactically and technically focused. I stand pleasantly corrected. My advice is to put this event on your calendar for next year. Focus your agenda strategically, and wear walking shoes! Read More Sharky: Good thing IT doesn't matter, huh? Medium-size company decides it's time for a new ERP system to replace its 15-year-old software. But when it comes to the selection committee, IT is officially relegated to research and assistance. Read More
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