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	Microsoft on 'Threshold' of Windows Phone growth The Windows Phone operating system still ranks third behind Android and iOS, but it is slowly seeing growth in the U.S. and Europe, and its eventual convergence with the Windows OS could mean even greater momentum. Read More   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 In this Issue Consumers buy touch notebooks for design, not for Windows 8 China passes Japan to become world's 2nd largest IT market Logins stolen from Facebook, Google, ADP payroll processor Space X rocket tech appears to pass major test Critics to Congress: Put the brakes on patent bill NSA spy scandal prompts China push to favor local tech vendors Yahoo acquires mobile video app startup Ptch JetBrains builds on Google Android collaboration for new IntelliJ IDEA Steve Pate: 3 reasons perimeter security is not enough for the cloud Darlene Storm: Healthcare.gov more vulnerable to hacking & privacy breaches after 'fix' Richi Jennings: PS4 'winning' sales war: 2.1M sold out as soon as back in stock WHITE PAPER: Nasuni Corp   The Top Ten Headaches Caused by Remote Office Storage Nasuni has worked with hundreds of customers to alleviate the pain that today's enterprise IT departments face in trying to manage storage remotely. Read More. Learn More Consumers buy touch notebooks for design, not for Windows 8 Touch-ready notebook PCs will account for about 11% of all laptops shipped this year, an improvement over 2012 when customers had few choices if they wanted to smudge screens, a market research analyst said today. Read More   China passes Japan to become world's 2nd largest IT market China overtook Japan in IT spending this year to become the world's second largest IT market, according to market research firm IDC. Read More   Logins stolen from Facebook, Google, ADP payroll processor Two million logins and passwords from services such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have been found on a Netherlands-based server, part of a large botnet using controller software nicknamed 'Pony.' Read More   Space X rocket tech appears to pass major test The Space X Falcon 9 rocket appears to have passed an important step, with the launch Tuesday afternoon of a telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. Read More   Critics to Congress: Put the brakes on patent bill The U.S. House of Representatives needs to take more time to debate and rewrite a bill targeting so-called patent trolls because several provisions would hurt legitimate patent holders, several critics of the bill said Tuesday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SAS How To Use Hadoop Hadoop can overcome the bandwidth and coordination issues associated with processing billions of records that previously might not have been saved. The SAS approach brings world-class analytics to the Hadoop framework. Learn More NSA spy scandal prompts China push to favor local tech vendors While China's demand for electronics continues to soar, the tech services market may be shrinking for U.S. enterprise vendors. Security concerns over U.S. secret surveillance are giving the Chinese government and local companies more reason to trust domestic vendors, according to industry experts. Read More   Yahoo acquires mobile video app startup Ptch Yahoo has acquired Ptch, the startup behind a mobile app that allowed users to combine photos and video on their phones into movies, and the service will shut down by January. Read More   JetBrains builds on Google Android collaboration for new IntelliJ IDEA Building on a collaboration with Google, software vendor JetBrains has updated its IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE (integrated development environment) to offer more capabilities for creating applications to run on Android devices. Read More   Steve Pate: 3 reasons perimeter security is not enough for the cloud The "M & M" model of data security (hard shell, soft inside) has been the standard for most enterprises for decades, but just a quick glance at the recent headlines and analyst reports illustrates how drastically the world has changed. What do you need to know to ensure you security measures are keeping pace with the 'next generation perimeter?' Read More   Darlene Storm: Healthcare.gov more vulnerable to hacking & privacy breaches after 'fix' For the love of Jiminy Cricket, how much cybersecurity incompetence are American citizens expected to accept and excuse while also footing the $660 million bill? Online security experts say the "new and improved" Healthcare.gov site may actually be more insecure now than before it was fixed! Read More   Richi Jennings: PS4 'winning' sales war: 2.1M sold out as soon as back in stock Sony VP Andrew House: Proud. Sony (TYO:6758) (NYSE:SNE) wants us all to know that it's winning the console war. It can't make the PlayStation 4 fast enough: Every time they're back in stock, they're sold out again. It says it's sold over 2.1 million -- on average, more than 100,000 per day -- despite its BLOD sabotage issues. Microsoft, meanwhile, mumbles something about dead zombies. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers seem ready, already, to crown the holiday winner. Read More
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