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	After Target, Neiman Marcus breaches, does PCI compliance mean anything? The recent data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus have once again shown that compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is no guarantee against an intrusion. 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 24 milestones in the Mac's 30-year history Gmail, other Google services hit by outage on Friday Would NFC smartphones have helped at Target? iFixit celebrates Mac's 30th by turning an '84 antique inside out Google lays $2.7M on the line for Pwnium hacking contest Evan Schuman: Fear of Glass Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50% Tech and telecom vendors spend millions on lobbying in DC It looks like celebrity hacker Guccifer has been arrested in Romania NASA satellite to bring high-speed data to Hubble, ISS HP envisions the holistic data center Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service Authentication bypass bug exposes Foscam webcams to unauthorized access FTC takes action against alleged Obamacare spammer Jonny Evans: Apple's Macintosh: 30 years doomed Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses money on every Surface tablet it sells. Is that really a bad thing? Richi Jennings: Apple iPhone 6 rumors rounded up by Richi: Phablets ahoy! 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 24 milestones in the Mac's 30-year history A look back at the high points -- and some low ones -- in the evolution of the Mac since 1984. Read More Gmail, other Google services hit by outage on Friday Gmail is experiencing an apparently broad outage on Friday afternoon and Google has indicated on its Apps Status website that it's looking into the issue. Read More Would NFC smartphones have helped at Target? The data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus have re-ignited a campaign by retailers to get U.S. consumers to carry "PIN and chip" credit and debit cards instead of less-secure magnetic stripe cards. Lost in the debate are mobile payments using NFC smartphones. Read More iFixit celebrates Mac's 30th by turning an '84 antique inside out To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Apple's launch of its original Macintosh personal computer, the do-it-yourself iFixit website today tore apart the beige all-in-one to find out what was inside. Read More Google lays $2.7M on the line for Pwnium hacking contest Google will again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a Canadian security conference in March, putting $2.7 million at stake to draw out researchers who can hack its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS. Read More Evan Schuman: Fear of Glass Google Glass is just the latest technological advance to elicit fear and dread in some quarters, including law enforcement. Read More Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50% Last April, Microsoft committed to matching Amazon's Web Services' prices for compute, storage and bandwidth. So when Amazon announced on Thursday it will drop its S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Elastic Block Store (EBS) prices by up to 22%, Microsoft followed suit the very next day. Read More Tech and telecom vendors spend millions on lobbying in DC Google, Comcast, AT&T and Verizon Communications ranked among the top spenders on U.S. government lobbying in 2013, with Apple and Facebook increasing their lobbying expenses significantly, according to year-end lobbying reports released this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Enabling IT to Retake the Lead in a BYOD World The transformation of enterprises into mobile organizations often is led by the mobile workers themselves as they use their own devices for work. Read Now! It looks like celebrity hacker Guccifer has been arrested in Romania A Romanian man was arrested this week under suspicion that he is the hacker known online as Guccifer who hacked into the online accounts of various public figures and politicians, including former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and members of the Bush family. Read More NASA satellite to bring high-speed data to Hubble, ISS NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay (TDRS) satellite, which will provide high data-rate communications to space craft, went into orbit Thursday night. Read More HP envisions the holistic data center Hewlett-Packard has launched a set of services designed to help organizations manage their data centers more efficiently, using the principles of DCIM (data center infrastructure management). Read More Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service Amazon Web Services has improved the performance of its Redshift data warehouse with new SSD-based nodes, which can also lower the cost of the service as long as storage capacity needs are also low. Read More Authentication bypass bug exposes Foscam webcams to unauthorized access The software used by many wireless IP cameras manufactured by Foscam Digital Technologies have a vulnerability that allows remote users to access their video streams and take snapshots without proper authentication. Read More FTC takes action against alleged Obamacare spammer The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against a website operator that allegedly sent spam intended to trick consumers into signing up for health insurance in advance of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Macintosh: 30 years doomed Apple's Mac turns 30 today. Apple's Website today celebrates the platform that defined and revolutionized the PC -- despite being "doomed" since it began. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses money on every Surface tablet it sells. Is that really a bad thing? There was very good news for Microsoft in its earnings report yesterday, with sales of its Surface tablets more than doubling from the previous quarter. Microsoft did it by losing money on every Surface it sold. Could that actually be a good thing? Read More Richi Jennings: Apple iPhone 6 rumors rounded up by Richi: Phablets ahoy! iPhone 5S still too small, supposedly. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is expected to launch the iPhone 6 later this year. And it's going to be big. Literally. The deep-throated rumor-mongers are saying that there'll be two models, both with bigger screens than today's units. We're also hearing that Cupertino is ditching the plastic (again). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers realize that iPhone-release-rumor season is upon up once more. 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