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	Ad blockers: A solution or a problem? Ad blockers can make websites cleaner and faster for users, but they can also take a nasty bite out of advertising revenue. How popular are they, and what can site publishers do about them? Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference Save the Date: CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference, Feb 25 The CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference 2014 agenda is being crafted with the expert guidance of our Dallas CIO Advisory Board members, which includes CIOs from Dr. Pepper Snapple, Energy Future Holdings, PrimeLending, Santander, Texas A&M, Transamerica Life Insurance and more. Register Today! In this Issue Franken presses Ford on location data collection practices Net neutrality decision sells consumers out to the ISPs FISA judges oppose plan for privacy advocate Senators question recommended changes to NSA surveillance Spammers target Google hospitality listings Intel puts Fab 42 plant on hold; will now use for 'future technology' CIOs project healthy IT budget increases for 2014 Robert L. Mitchell: The business of ad blocking: A Q&A with Adblock Plus lead investor Tim Schumacher Larry Freeman: Software robots are taking over the data center! Jonny Evans: Nest: Apple doesn't need it so Google buys it anyway Richi Jennings: Offline computers send the NSA strong signals WEBCAST: IBM Tame the data explosion with IBM Real-time Compression Learn about IBM's unique Real-time Compression technology that can enable storing up to 5x as much data in the same storage space. Learn More Franken presses Ford on location data collection practices A U.S. Senator Tuesday pressed Ford for information on its in-car data collection practices, citing recent boasts by an executive at the automaker that it can monitor drivers via integrated navigation system. Read More   Net neutrality decision sells consumers out to the ISPs The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Verizon v. FCC is a dangerously retrograde move that, by badly damaging the cause of net neutrality, harms American consumers and further insulates the already over-protected cable industry from any kind of meaningful competition. Read More   FISA judges oppose plan for privacy advocate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges have said the creation of a privacy advocate in the secret court could be counterproductive and hamper its work. Read More   Senators question recommended changes to NSA surveillance Recommendations by a presidential panel to overhaul a U.S. National Security Agency phone records collection program could impede efforts to track terrorism suspects, some senators suggested Tuesday. Read More   Spammers target Google hospitality listings Spammers targeted hospitality-related business listings on Google services, modifying links in what appeared to be an attempt to drive traffic to a hotel bookings site. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell and Microsoft Accelerating the Benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 The design and direction of the new Microsoft Windows Server 2012 enables you to take advantage of virtualization and cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, while providing improved capabilities for stand-alone servers. Learn More Now! Intel puts Fab 42 plant on hold; will now use for 'future technology' Intel has put on hold a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Arizona, leaving the new space available for unspecified future technology. Read More   CIOs project healthy IT budget increases for 2014 CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. Read More   Robert L. Mitchell: The business of ad blocking: A Q&A with Adblock Plus lead investor Tim Schumacher Schumacher is the lead investor in ad blocking software market leader Adblock Plus -- and the visionary behind its controversial Acceptable Ads business model. Here's why he thinks it will work. Read More   Larry Freeman: Software robots are taking over the data center! By now, you're probably familiar with IT's new business mindset: that of a highly efficient service provider. Cloud services, consumerization and BYOD are just a few of the business-driven topics that are currently generating buzz. However, another major trend has begun to silently transform the data center by providing IT equipment with an intelligence all its own. It turns out that, in order to truly modernize IT, your application servers, networks, data storage systems, and even end-user devices must live intelligently—often, independently. What do I mean by that? Read on... Read More   Jonny Evans: Nest: Apple doesn't need it so Google buys it anyway I've been watching the train wreck of tech journalism across the last few days since news broke that Google has acquired Nest, "beating Apple to it," if you believe the marketing reporting. So let's take a look at the reasons Apple didn't buy Nest. Read More   Richi Jennings: Offline computers send the NSA strong signals The National Security Agency (NSA) is due for an interesting day. Bloggers have received disturbing intelligence that the shadowy agency possesses an ability to monitor off-line computers utilizing small radio transmitters. While intercepting strong signals from bloggers and news outlets, the agency will also have to decode the recommendations of a FISA review panel. Recommendations that are expected to be announced by American President Barack Obama later today. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are bugged by computers and Capitol Hill. Read More
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