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	14 steps to a better, faster Windows laptop After a couple of years, most laptops fall seriously behind the times. Here are several ways to upgrade your legacy laptop to meet today's standards. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How to Navigate the Ever-Changing Mobile Device Landscape Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful, and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information. View more In this Issue HP sticks thumb in Microsoft's eye, discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs Read this before you buy another hard drive 10 trends in IT spending for 2014 5 reasons why your IT job search is getting harder Why the 'Internet of Things' may never happen Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015 Windows 8's complexity tax shackles Microsoft Darlene Storm: Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes Richi Jennings: Free LogMeIn alternatives -- Review roundup WHITE PAPER: IBM 9 Steps to Building a Business Case for B2B Integration Justifying a strategic B2B initiative that reaches beyond the organization's four walls is especially critical. Fortunately, you can significantly increase your chances of approval if you follow these nine steps. Read Now HP sticks thumb in Microsoft's eye, discounts consumer Windows 7 PCs Hewlett-Packard today launched a new online promotion that discounts several consumer PCs by $150 when equipped with Windows 7, saying the four-year-old OS is "back by popular demand." Read More Read this before you buy another hard drive It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even more valuable. Read More 10 trends in IT spending for 2014 After years of maintenance-only spending, IT leaders are ready to invest. Find out which technologies -- and which IT professionals -- are pulling down the dough. Read More 5 reasons why your IT job search is getting harder The IT job market is slowing down, use of contingency workers is picking up, and Congress has an unfinished fight ahead on the H-1B visa. These factors and others are making the IT hiring trends to expect in 2014. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Workforce Analytics Enable Smarter Decisions Learn how your organization can create a successful strategy to use analytics for greater business value. View Now Why the 'Internet of Things' may never happen The so-called "Internet of Things" will be littered with multiple, warring, incompatible standards and systems for connectivity, making it very unlike the actual Internet, which is a shame, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015 Microsoft will continue to offer its malware scrubbing program to Windows XP users for more than a year after it stops patching the operating system in April. Read More Windows 8's complexity tax shackles Microsoft Complexity may be Windows' downfall, and Microsoft has not only failed to address the problem, but exacerbated it by shipping the dual-threat, two-UI Windows 8. Read More Darlene Storm: Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes Healthcare.gov is still so insecure that a hacker was able to access 70,000 records in four minutes . . . without actually hacking! Kevin Mitnick called the site's security shameful, joining David Kennedy and other cybersecurity experts in warning that healthcare.gov is a hack waiting to happen. Read More Richi Jennings: Free LogMeIn alternatives -- Review roundup Mishandled pivot from freemium model alienates users. LogMeIn told free users this week they're not welcome. With just seven days to find an alternative to LogMeIn free, users are ready to LogMeOut. Can you spell PR disaster? Even paid users are rethinking future use of the service. Thanks to the company's poor handling of the situation, users are worried that LogMeIn is not long for this world. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder LogMeIn's financial stability, as competitors rub their hands with glee. Read More
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