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	Tech spending hurt this year by Congress Tech spending in the U.S. will increase by a smaller amount this year than earlier predicted, Forrester Research said today. And it blames Congress for the forecast decline. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com       The Future of Sales Performance Management Learn how the future of sales performance management is integrated with CRM and social collaboration and how this will help managers provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to drive better sales behaviors and, ultimately, better sales results. Download now. Read now! In this Issue Apple plays defense and offense with free software, upgrade strategies Mysterious barges in Maine and San Francisco ignite Google rumors Samsung kicks off first developer conference Free iWork upgrade angers Mac users Electronic privacy? There's no such thing HP sues seven optical drive makers over price-fixing Lenovo delays touchscreen option for ThinkPad X240 laptop ARM servers with 64-bit Calxeda chips to ship next year Oracle moves aggressively to poach SAP Business ByDesign customers NTT expands data center, cloud push U.S. set to disclose Infosys visa case ruling Human rights commission questions NSA surveillance Oracle eyes optical links as final frontier of data-center scaling Rackspace joins forces with Hortonworks on hosted Hadoop Google's rivals to review new concessions in EU antitrust case Jonny Evans: 5 reasons Angela Ahrendts is right for Apple retail Darlene Storm: PRISM-Proof solution for the public cloud: Security salvation or snake oil? Preston Gralla: Apple's iWork upgrade screwup has Microsoft laughing all the way to the bank RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Get Chrome for Business Deploy Chrome browser for your company and customize 100+ policies. Manage updates, compatibility with older apps and more. www.google.com/chrome Apple plays defense and offense with free software, upgrade strategies Apple's decision to give away OS X upgrades and other software, including the iWork productivity suite, stemmed from both offensive and defensive strategies, analysts said today. Read More Mysterious barges in Maine and San Francisco ignite Google rumors Speculation that had been growing about mysterious barges harbored on both sides of the U.S. is exploding. Read More Samsung kicks off first developer conference Samsung kicked off its first global developer conference on Monday where where Samsung officials focused on smart TV, gaming, multiscreen innovations as well as developer tools for a recently introduced mobile software developer kit. Read More Free iWork upgrade angers Mac users Apple's iWork free upgrade has angered long-time Mac power users, who have flooded the company's support forum with complaints about lost features. Read More      Electronic privacy? There's no such thing You will never be secure if you labor under the delusion of privacy. Read More HP sues seven optical drive makers over price-fixing HP has filed suit against seven makers of optical disk drive technology, claiming that over a six-year period the group conspired to drive up the price of products sold to HP and others. Read More Lenovo delays touchscreen option for ThinkPad X240 laptop       Buyers looking to purchase Lenovo's latest ThinkPad X240 laptop with a touchscreen will have to wait until December. Read More ARM servers with 64-bit Calxeda chips to ship next year       Low-power servers running on Calxeda's 64-bit ARM chip will be available a year from now, Calxeda said. 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Read More U.S. set to disclose Infosys visa case ruling The U.S. Dept. of Justice is expected to announce on Wednesday a resolution to a long-standing visa case involving Indian outsourcer Infosys, an official has confirmed. Read More Human rights commission questions NSA surveillance The U.S. government needs to answer for human rights abuses related to the National Security Agency's massive worldwide surveillance of Internet communications and telephone records, privacy advocates told an international human rights board Monday. Read More Oracle eyes optical links as final frontier of data-center scaling Oracle is exploring silicon photonics, an optical technology drawing widespread interest, as a potential weapon in the battle against data-center power consumption. Read More Rackspace joins forces with Hortonworks on hosted Hadoop       Enterprises can now run Hortonworks' Hadoop-based Data Platform in Rackspace's managed hosting environment and its public cloud. Read More Google's rivals to review new concessions in EU antitrust case Google's rivals have been given another opportunity to review the search giant's latest proposed measures aimed at avoiding a fine from the European Commission for allegedly breaking competition rules. Read More Jonny Evans: 5 reasons Angela Ahrendts is right for Apple retail       Apple has hired Burberry CEO, Angela Ahrendts to lead its retail operations -- there's at least five good reasons why: Read More Darlene Storm: PRISM-Proof solution for the public cloud: Security salvation or snake oil? Claiming to be PRISM-proof is a pretty tall order, especially when you consider nation-state or NSA "sponsored" backdoors in hardware as well as stealthy memory attacks, but a security firm says it can deliver and demonstrated the "first PRISM-proof Tor server in the public cloud." Read More Preston Gralla: Apple's iWork upgrade screwup has Microsoft laughing all the way to the bank Apple might have thought it was doing Mac users a favor with its free upgrade of iWork last week, but Microsoft instead has been the recipient of the gift. iWork users are so angry with Apple for dumbing it down that many will be giving it up for Office. Read More
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