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	Microsoft dings Ballmer's bonus over Windows 8, Surface RT struggles Microsoft's board of directors reduced outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer's bonus for the 2013 fiscal year, citing poor performance of Windows 8 and the $900 million Surface RT write-off, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Demonstrate the Business Value of Security This Forrester report highlights the most common mistakes made in the budgeting process and offers Forrester's step-by-step Information Security Value Model to guide you through a strategy to support smart investment and resource allocation. Learn More In this Issue With IPO looming, Twitter takes on losses, wary investors Hackers steal data on 2.9 million Adobe customers The must-have iPad office apps, round 6 Snapchat seen overmatched in fight with Facebook Twitter IPO docs show rapid growth, steep losses U.S. indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks Samsung execs may have peeked at secret Apple info Instagram says ads are on the way IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify Michael Horowitz: The Microsoft way Preston Gralla: Microsoft beats Yale in the "Bing It On" search challenge Next-gen Nokia Siemens carrier systems goes virtual Yahoo abandons T-shirt rewards for vulnerability information Richi Jennings: OOPS! Adobe abode hacked: Credit cards copied, source silently snatched WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Future-Proofing Your Data Center Storage Learn how investing in increased flexibility and automation can provide additional agility for businesses to respond to new opportunities quickly. Learn more. With IPO looming, Twitter takes on losses, wary investors As Twitter plans to launch its initial public offering amid financial losses and in the wake of Facebook's tumultuous IPO, the company needs to reassure potentially nervous investors. Read More Hackers steal data on 2.9 million Adobe customers Hackers broke into the internal computer network of Adobe Systems and stole information on 2.9 million customers, as well as source code for several of the company's products. Read More The must-have iPad office apps, round 6 Big changes to key iPad office productivity apps reshape the winners and losers. Read More Snapchat seen overmatched in fight with Facebook Social startup Snapchat may be batting out of its league if it plans to take on social behemoth Facebook. Read More Twitter IPO docs show rapid growth, steep losses Twitter has filed for its long-awaited initial public offering, revealing a fast-growing company but one that lost money in each of the past three years. Read More U.S. indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks The U.S. has brought criminal charges against 13 persons, said to be members of the hacker group Anonymous, for their alleged participation in cyberattacks as part of a campaign called Operation Payback. Read More Samsung execs may have peeked at secret Apple info Samsung's lawyers may have provided their clients access to highly confidential information such as Apple's patent licensing agreements with Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp and Philips, according to a court document. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS New Product Forecasting Using Structured Analogies Learn about a new patent-pending approach that may be helpful in certain new product forecasting situations. Make manual overrides to the statistical forecasts, and get a better sense of the risks and uncertainties in new product forecasts through visualization of past new product introductions. View Now Instagram says ads are on the way Ads are coming to Instagram in the next couple of months, the photo- and video-sharing app maker said Thursday. Read More IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify Continuing to build its portfolio of software for supporting electronic commerce operations, IBM has acquired Xtify, a provider of push notification-based marketing services for mobile platforms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More Michael Horowitz: The Microsoft way Some observations on the latest bug in Internet Explorer and a look at how Microsoft handled the problem. It illustrates a lot about the way the company functions. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft beats Yale in the "Bing It On" search challenge Microsoft and a Yale professor have been engaged in a nasty spat over the company's "Bing It On" blind test which Microsoft claims shows that people prefer Bing to Google. Microsoft clearly beats Yale here. But it's not for reasons you might think. Read More Next-gen Nokia Siemens carrier systems goes virtual The latest version of Nokia Siemens Networks software for running mobile carriers is virtualized, pointing toward a future of fully cloud-based systems that could help operators run even more efficiently and roll out new services more quickly. Read More Yahoo abandons T-shirt rewards for vulnerability information Yahoo will stop giving T-shirts as a reward for finding security vulnerabilities after a public shaming it's calling "t-shirt gate." Read More Richi Jennings: OOPS! Adobe abode hacked: Credit cards copied, source silently snatched Time to fire the head of security? Adobe is in a deep hole (perhaps it should stop digging). It regrets to announce that hackers have broken in and grabbed a bunch of customer details, including payment card data and some source code. Adobe Chief Security Officer, Brad Arkin, maintains that the card details were encrypted, but isn't giving us any details that would reassure much. All this on top of Adobe's chronically poor reputation for security practice, and widespread dissatisfaction with the company forcing customers to the cloud. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it's time to fire Brad Arkin. Read More
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