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	Richi Jennings: Silk Road busted by Feds; Ross Ulbricht arrested: Bad news for Tor and Bitcoin? Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts. The FBI has arrested the alleged operator of The Silk Road. The "eBay for drugs" is now down, after enabling more than a billion dollars in transactions, raking in $80 million profit in revenue -- all in Bitcoins -- according to the indictment. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle, but worry for the future of Bitcoin. Read More   WEBCAST: Dell VMware A Smarter Approach to Data Protection The three videos in this series will explore the dramatic impact that unprecedented data growth and other developments have had on the data center, the need for an end-to-end approach to data protection, and how Dell and VMware enable enterprises to transform IT into a center of business innovation. View Now In this Issue Jonny Evans: Opinion: If you can't win, cheat. The Samsung/Apple story Sharon Gaudin: Scientists getting closer to building Star Wars-like lightsabers Jonny Evans: FCC 'Obamacare' shutdown may delay Apple's new iPads JR Raphael: Note 3 in the real world: The first things you notice about Samsung's new phone INSIDER Yorgen Edholm: Mobile lessons from the next generation Rob Walker: Using predictive analytics to make your data actionable (part 2) Sharky: Why IT support gets gray WEBCAST: Dell VMware How to Transform IT into a Center of Business Innovation Although IT supports virtually every business process, many organizations are hard-pressed to take advantage of technology advances when they're trapped into spending most of the IT budget on maintenance instead of innovation. View Now Jonny Evans: Opinion: If you can't win, cheat. The Samsung/Apple story Samsung will stop at nothing in its attempt to seize and secure smartphone industry dominance: questionable design ethics; FRAND abuse and gamed benchmark scores are now joined by that firm's misuse of confidential legal documents as the Android army's leading light goes thermonuclear in its battle with iOS. 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   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   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. 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     INSIDER Yorgen Edholm: Mobile lessons from the next generation My wife is wonderfully low tech, with an old, vanilla mobile phone. Last weekend she surprised me by deciding she now wants a phone with all the bells and whistles. I was worried that she'd been bitten by the new iPhone bug, which hit 9 million other people in one weekend, but her change of mind was more educated. She was learning from our kids. 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   Sharky: Why IT support gets gray This county government has a jury application that interfaces with its mainframe, and it handles everything except cutting paychecks for the jurors. That takes an extra set of steps by the jury coordinators. Read More
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