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	Big data blues: The dangers of data mining Companies are taking matters into their own hands with internal controls, open privacy policies, ethical codes and greater candor over how they're collecting and parsing personal data. But many wonder whether it's enough to allay consumers' fears as techniques for manipulating data multiply. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff In this Issue Hands on: At just 1 pound, the iPad Air is worth the weight 6TB helium-filled hard drives take flight, bump capacity 50% Windows 8 uptake slows, ditch-XP movement decelerates 'Canary' Chrome chirps when it smells malware Linux 4.0 may have only bug fixes, no new features Is technology the cause of car crashes? Or the cure? Bing and Twitter continue their search party Raspi.TV and Cyntech work on cheap 9-in. monitor for Raspberry Pi Microsoft CodePlex gems: 12 open source tools every Windows admin will love Eric Ogren: Get smart about threat intelligence Richi Jennings: Microsoft fixes Surface Pro 2 battery-life bug WEBCAST: Oracle Innovation in Financial Services Date: November 20th, 2013 Time: 1 PM This presentation will review the role IT should play in innovation. How financial services organizations are finding ways to rebalance their IT portfolio. Learn More Hands on: At just 1 pound, the iPad Air is worth the weight The first thing you notice when you pick up Apple's new iPad Air is how light it feels. But there's more to the Air than it's new slender look and feel. Michael deAgonia offers his first impressions of the new tablet. Read More 6TB helium-filled hard drives take flight, bump capacity 50% Western Digital Monday started shipping a 6TB, helium-filled hard drive that represents a 50% increase in drive capacity over today's largest hard drives. Read More Windows 8 uptake slows, ditch-XP movement decelerates Windows 8's user share in October climbed past the 10% milestone for the first time since the launch of the radically-overhauled OS a year ago, an analytics company said Friday. Read More 'Canary' Chrome chirps when it smells malware Google has expanded malware blocking in an early development build of Chrome to sniff out a wider range of threats than the browser already recognizes. Read More Linux 4.0 may have only bug fixes, no new features Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds has proposed that Linux 4.0, an upcoming release of the open-source software, should be dedicated to stability and bug fixing. Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Five Tips for Improving Customer Experience This paper conveys how the pressure to increase customer satisfaction metrics with less funding will increase as companies look for new ways to differentiate their services and reduce customer churn. Learn More. Learn More. Is technology the cause of car crashes? Or the cure? Passing laws to minimize accidents caused by distracted drivers is a good idea. But let's not dump advanced technology prematurely just because we assume it's a distraction, says Mike Elgan. Read More Bing and Twitter continue their search party Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it's renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday. Read More Raspi.TV and Cyntech work on cheap 9-in. monitor for Raspberry Pi A project aims to bring an inexpensive 9-inch portable monitor to the popular US$25 Raspberry Pi PC, which comes without a keyboard, mouse or monitor. Read More Microsoft CodePlex gems: 12 open source tools every Windows admin will love We mined Microsoft's open source hosting repository to unearth 12 invaluable Windows admin tools -- and they're all free. Read More Eric Ogren: Get smart about threat intelligence Know how you are going to make the intelligence gleaned from threat feeds actionable before you ever agree to let them into your building. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft fixes Surface Pro 2 battery-life bug Firmware update gives 25% boost. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has made the Surface Pro 2 better. With a big increase in battery life, thanks to a bug fix, it's made its 'full-fat' Windows 8.1 tablet-cum-Ultrabook a more attractive proposition. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it's too little, too late. Read More
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