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	INSIDER How to get a job in financial IT IT pros may have shied away from financial services during the industry's recent upheavals, but it now represents a vibrant employment segment for those who understand its adherence to security, compliance and reliability. Insider (registration required) 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. In this Issue Perspective: Twitter's success opens up IPO pipeline Top500 shows growing inequality in supercomputing power Cell-phone mishaps and mysteries from the masses Carriers say smartphone 'kill switch' attractive to hackers Zapped! Mars rover Curiosity is down after a short circuit By the numbers: Twitter vs. Facebook IPOs Preston Gralla: Steve Ballmer: Don't blame me for Microsoft's stagnant stock price, blame the market Michael Horowitz: Is a pop-up ad from optimize-app.com a new type of attack? Tablets, fitness bands to outshine smartwatches this holiday shopping season Qualcomm wants to bring 'brains' to smartphones, tablets Royal baby, Boston bombing and twerking top 2013 Ask.com searches Qualcomm tackling faster LTE, but how fast is up for debate Google to build fiber networks in Africa through Project Link Richi Jennings: 'Pathetic' Microsoft ad campaign ratchets privacy hate for Google WEBCAST: VMware VMware Cloud Credits Program The VMware Cloud Credits Purchasing Program provides an easy on-ramp to the cloud, enabling you to maintain control and visibility of your cloud spend through your My VMware™ account. View Now Perspective: Twitter's success opens up IPO pipeline   Twitter's IPO launch two weeks ago could be a sign that the market is ripe for other social networks to launch their own efforts to go public. Read More   Top500 shows growing inequality in supercomputing power Supercomputing power is being concentrated in a smaller number of machines, according to the latest Top500 list of high-performance computers. Keepers of the list are uncertain how to parse that trend. Read More   Cell-phone mishaps and mysteries from the masses Real-life smartphone mini-disasters are widespread. They can be maddening and often amusing. Read More   Carriers say smartphone 'kill switch' attractive to hackers Mobile carriers are opposed to the plan for a smartphone 'kill switch' that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, claiming that it could be misused by hackers to block critical services. Read More   Zapped! Mars rover Curiosity is down after a short circuit NASA engineers have suspended the Mars rover Curiosity's work for a few days while they try to fix an electrical short circuit. Read More   By the numbers: Twitter vs. Facebook IPOs Facebook's IPO was considered an early bust while Twitter's has been deemed a success. In terms of orderly market activity, that's without question. But what about prices? Read More   Preston Gralla: Steve Ballmer: Don't blame me for Microsoft's stagnant stock price, blame the market At Steve Ballmer's farewell stockholder's meeting, he intimated that Microsoft's stagnant stock price for more than a decade hasn't been a result of his leadership, but instead due to a stock market that hasn't recognized Microsoft's underlying value. Is that an excuse, or does he have a point? Read More   WHITE PAPER: VCE Healthcare Firm Ramps Up for Claims Processing Spikes Virtualizing compute, storage and networks with VCE was the answer for one IT-constrained healthcare organization who was able to: - Migrate applications in just five days (compared to two months previously) - Improve storage and application performance by 25%-40% - Meet stringent state-regulated SLAs - Reduce data center footprint by 75% Learn More Michael Horowitz: Is a pop-up ad from optimize-app.com a new type of attack? Looking to remove optimize-app.com may be a trap. Pssst... buddy.... I got a Google soych here just fer ya.  Read More   Tablets, fitness bands to outshine smartwatches this holiday shopping season Despite the hype surrounding smartwatches, they won't be featured on many holiday wish lists this year. They are still too expensive and not useful enough to compete with tablets and fitness bands, according to market research company Gartner. Read More   Qualcomm wants to bring 'brains' to smartphones, tablets Qualcomm wants to make tablets and smartphones more perceptive by giving the devices a "silicon brain," company CEO Paul Jacobs said Wednesday. Read More   Royal baby, Boston bombing and twerking top 2013 Ask.com searches The year 2013 may go down as the year that Americans were curious about a royal baby, horrified by the Boston Marathon bombing and concerned about wars, typhoons and shootings. Read More   Qualcomm tackling faster LTE, but how fast is up for debate Mobile device chips coming next year from Qualcomm will be able to use wide spectrum bands that carriers are beginning to patch together with new technology, but its lofty performance claims need to be taken with a grain of salt. Read More   Google to build fiber networks in Africa through Project Link Google kicked off a project to build high-speed fiber-optic networks in parts of the world that lack fast broadband connections, starting with the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Read More   Richi Jennings: 'Pathetic' Microsoft ad campaign ratchets privacy hate for Google Scroogled campaign dredges new depths. Microsoft is under fire -- yet again -- for its anti-Google privacy message (despite the fact that Microsoft also makes money from targeted advertising). This time, Redmond is selling T-shirts, mugs, and other paraphernalia with a bastardized "Keep Calm And..." text. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fight like ferrets in a bag. Read More
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