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	Lawmakers seek answers on Obamacare Data Hub security Two Republican lawmakers Wednesday demanded that the Department of Health and Human Services provide information on security measures used to secure the Federal Data Services Hub that was built to support Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Read More WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Foster Better Decisions with Big Data Visualization Read this paper to learn how strong visualization tools are providing better, simplified business intelligence from a variety of sources, whether real-time or industry-specific - to allow your organization to make better business decisions faster. Learn More In this Issue iPhone 5C production cut rumors 'tell us nothing' OMG! Texting becomes the next big enterprise tool Google pokes the Microsoft bear, pledges to support Chrome on XP into 2015 Apple fixes iCloud bug that 'Barbie-ized' OS X, iOS calendars U.S. still lacks Obamacare website enrollment numbers T-Mobile urged to pull TV commercial depicting smartphone robbery Windows Phone update is more than just a facelift Get a free smoothie for an NFC tap LinkedIn adds mobile app for recruiters on the go Cerberus explores acquiring BlackBerry Lenovo joins Windows 8.1 tablet race with $299 Miix2 Samsung planning Knox 2.0 for smartphones, tablets Oracle plugs critical security holes that are putting systems at risk Tilera chips add muscle to x86 servers, free up computing capacity Security firm releases tool to audit SAP's HANA Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN JR Raphael: Hands on: The first things you notice about Acer's C720 Chromebook Jean-Loup Richet: Religious beliefs on the Internet: Between ignorance and censorship Preston Gralla: Microsoft's nasty anti-Google Scroogled ads pay off...or do they? 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Read More Google pokes the Microsoft bear, pledges to support Chrome on XP into 2015 Google today stuck a finger in Microsoft's eye, telling users of Windows XP that its Chrome browser will support their aged operating system a year longer than will Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Read More Apple fixes iCloud bug that 'Barbie-ized' OS X, iOS calendars Apple today fixed an iCloud bug that had turned OS X and iOS users' calendars into a gaudy range of colors that one frustrated customer labeled the "Barbie Dreamhouse" palette. Read More U.S. still lacks Obamacare website enrollment numbers More than two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama's administration launched a website allowing uninsured U.S. residents to sign up for health coverage, officials still aren't releasing the numbers of people who have successfully navigated the error-prone process. Read More T-Mobile urged to pull TV commercial depicting smartphone robbery A TV commercial for T-Mobile US that parodies a smartphone theft is "more than tasteless" and should be pulled, two prosecutors wrote in a letter to T-Mobile CEO John Legere. Read More Windows Phone update is more than just a facelift Getting Windows Phone 8 Update 3, and eventually Windows Phone 8.1, on phablets is one thing, but getting a foothold in the low-end tablet market is a bigger opportunity. Read More Get a free smoothie for an NFC tap Up to one million Jamba Juice smoothies will go to Isis mobile wallet smartphone users later this year, when Isis takes its NFC-ready technology to the national stage. Read More LinkedIn adds mobile app for recruiters on the go Hiring managers are busy bees who sometimes have to close a deal from their mobile phones, which is apparently what led LinkedIn to offer a mobile app for recruiters on the go. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mitel Networks Network World Report: Getting Ahead of BYOD Organizations are being flooded with employee-owned gadgets and valiantly trying to accommodate requests to provide access to corporate resources while maintaining control enough to minimize risk and meet compliance requirements. Learn More Cerberus explores acquiring BlackBerry Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is reported to be considering a bid to acquire all of ailing BlackBerry. Read More Lenovo joins Windows 8.1 tablet race with $299 Miix2 Lenovo has entered the Windows 8.1 tablet market with the 8-in. Miix2 tablet, which starts at $299 and has an Intel Atom chip code-named Bay Trail. Read More Samsung planning Knox 2.0 for smartphones, tablets After releasing the first version of Knox security software after a long testing period, Samsung is working on version 2.0. Read More Oracle plugs critical security holes that are putting systems at risk Oracle fixed on Tuesday 127 security issues in Java, its database and other products, patching some flaws that could let attackers take over systems. Read More Tilera chips add muscle to x86 servers, free up computing capacity New Tilera co-processors tuned for Hadoop, video and networking applications can free up the primary CPUs of x86 servers to run other applications. Read More Security firm releases tool to audit SAP's HANA A new tool from security vendor Onapsis aims to secure SAP's in-memory database HANA, the German company's fastest-growing data processing product. Read More Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently leverage data in multiple ways at supercomputing speed, Apache said Wednesday. Read More JR Raphael: Hands on: The first things you notice about Acer's C720 Chromebook Acer's new C720 Chromebook couldn't be more different from the recently released HP Chromebook 11 -- both for better and for worse. Read More Jean-Loup Richet: Religious beliefs on the Internet: Between ignorance and censorship Yes, all of the web's capabilities can turn it into a weapon for terrorists, but why must law-abiding people risk being censored because of a few bad apples? Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's nasty anti-Google Scroogled ads pay off...or do they? Microsoft's series of anti-Google "Scroogled" ads seem to be paying big dividends for Microsoft, conclude two ad-effectiveness firms. But dig a little deeper and look at the numbers: Is Microsoftwasting its money with its Scroogled effort? Read More
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