Bleak, bleaker, bleakest: Latest PC market forecast projects historic 10% downturn

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	Bleak, bleaker, bleakest: Latest PC market forecast projects historic 10% downturn This year will go down as the PC industry's largest contraction, research firm IDC said, with global shipments dropping by double digits and little relief in sight. Read More   WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks   Strategic Solutions for Government IT The U.S. government wants to transform its IT organization to streamline operations and smooth the transition to the data center of the future. To this end, it is moving an increasing number of applications to the cloud; minimizing duplicated IT efforts; and improving the dialogue between federal providers and contracting personnel. Learn more >> In this Issue Online shopping boom blurs the lines between Black Friday and Cyber Monday Microsoft gives students free Office 365 Worm may create an Internet of Harmful Things, says Symantec (Take note, Amazon) BlackBerry upgrades BES, boosts Android, iOS management Experimental malware uses inaudible sound to defeat network air gaps Rob Walker: Making data work: Why hope is not a strategy Preston Gralla: Can Microsoft survive the coming PC apocalypse? Jonny Evans: OS X Mavericks tips: Control the information you share with apps INSIDER Robert L. Mitchell: FileMaker Pro: 13 going on 30 WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Leveraging SaaS to Drive Innovation and Results Learn how sales, finance, marketing, procurement, and supply chain leaders are leveraging SaaS to become more agile and serve the customer better. Learn More. Online shopping boom blurs the lines between Black Friday and Cyber Monday As more people do their holiday shopping online, the traditional Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days are losing their distinction. Most any day after the Thanksgiving holiday is now a cyber shopping day. Read More   Microsoft gives students free Office 365 Schools and universities that license Microsoft Office for their staff can now hand out Office 365 free to students, Microsoft said Monday. Read More   Worm may create an Internet of Harmful Things, says Symantec (Take note, Amazon) Security researches are gradually raising warnings that the Internet of Things will increase, by multitudes, the number of things that can be hacked and attacked. The Hitchcockian plotlines are endless. Read More   BlackBerry upgrades BES, boosts Android, iOS management BlackBerry has upgraded its management platform Enterprise Server 10 with more features for managing Android and iOS smartphones and has also improved scalability to lower overall costs. 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! Experimental malware uses inaudible sound to defeat network air gaps In a development likely to concern those who believe that a system that's not connected to a network is safe from surveillance, researchers have demonstrated that microphones and speakers built into laptops can be used to covertly transmit and receive data through inaudible audio signals Read More   Rob Walker: Making data work: Why hope is not a strategy Once a company has climbed the added value ladder of Data → Predictions → Decisions → Actions, making better decisions in all customer channels is not the only benefit. A centralized (customer) decision hub will not just improve the quality and consistency of decisions, it will also record every single one of them. Read More   Preston Gralla: Can Microsoft survive the coming PC apocalypse? PCs sales are on track to have their biggest drop ever, down more than 10% in 2013 warns IDC. And there's no end in sight, with nearly a 4% drop projected in 2014. With its core business going south, is there anything Microsoft do in order to thrive? Read More   Jonny Evans: OS X Mavericks tips: Control the information you share with apps Apple's new Location Services support on Mavericks means applications and Websites can gather information about where you are. Here's how to take control of that information. Read More     INSIDER Robert L. Mitchell: FileMaker Pro: 13 going on 30 FileMaker 13, which debuts today, represents a milestone in more ways than one. In April the database program will celebrate its 29th birthday. It's mind boggling to think that this popular database has been around since 1985. And although Apple owns the product today, FileMaker originally only ran on MS-DOS. Even today, most customers use it on Windows, not the Mac. Read More
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