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	iPad sales skew even more toward Mini iPad sales shifted over the last year, with fewer buyers purchasing the aged iPad 2 and more choosing the lower-priced iPad Mini, a research firm said today. 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 Backblaze lists most reliable hard drives based on its massive cloud study MIT develops heads-up display technology for windows, eyeglasses Update: Microsoft pushes firmware fix to more Surface Pro 2 owners Tablet trends for 2014: More Windows tablets, 3G/4G and phablets Intel confirms using ARM-based chip core in smartwatch it demoed at CES 3D graphene-like material could lead to super electronics AT&T announces LG G Flex availability for $300 Mobile, broadband power Verizon to strong Q4 IT shops face ever greater mobile demands from users Evan Schuman: Hijacked by social media Syrian Electronic Army hacks Microsoft's Office Blogs site State of Maryland opts for gradual Google Apps rollout Supreme Court rejects SAP's appeal of $391M patent suit award NFL's CIO Looks to Improve Fan Experience With In-Stadium Tech Preston Gralla: Is Microsoft breaking the law with its secret Xbox stealth marketing campaign? Jonny Evans: Apple 's education innovation goes global Greg Lambert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January: An easy start to the year RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference + Expo Lead the consumerization culture shift Consumer technologies are changing business in fundamental ways. Learn how to lead the culture shift in your enterprise at the third annual Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) April 27–29 in San Francisco. Learn more Backblaze lists most reliable hard drives based on its massive cloud study Overall, Western Digital's drives on average lasted the longest; Seagate's came in last. Read More   MIT develops heads-up display technology for windows, eyeglasses MIT scientists said today they used nanotechnology to develop a see-through screen that can be applied as a thin plastic coating on ordinary glass. Read More   Update: Microsoft pushes firmware fix to more Surface Pro 2 owners Numerous owners of Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 tablet said that their devices had received the long-awaited firmware update meant to fix problems introduced by a faulty December update Read More   Tablet trends for 2014: More Windows tablets, 3G/4G and phablets Android and iOS tablets will both begin to lose global market share in 2014, while Windows ramps up slightly, according to research firm IDC. Read More   Intel confirms using ARM-based chip core in smartwatch it demoed at CES For years, Intel has been battling to replace ARM-based chips used in smartphones and other mobile devices. Now it has partly succumbed to the low-power ARM approach. Read More   3D graphene-like material could lead to super electronics   Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered a new material that could someday turn a 1TB hard drive into one that can store 10TB of data on the same volume. Read More   AT&T announces LG G Flex availability for $300 AT&T will start selling pre-orders of the LG G Flex smartphone on Friday, with full availability of the Android device set for Feb. 7, the company announced Monday. Read More   Mobile, broadband power Verizon to strong Q4 Verizon Communications posted revenue of $31.1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2013, a 3.4% increase from a year earlier, with the gains driven again by mobile and broadband growth. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc.   Endpoint Buyer's Guide Evaluating the many components that make up an endpoint security solution may seem overwhelming. Get independent research and test results to help you determine your requirements and identify the vendor that best meets your needs. Learn More IT shops face ever greater mobile demands from users Nearly two-thirds of mobile device users own three or more network-connected devices, according to an online survey of 5,000 people conducted in November in the U.S. and eight other countries. Read More   Evan Schuman: Hijacked by social media Why would anyone be comfortable with social networking sites sending out messages in their name? Read More   Syrian Electronic Army hacks Microsoft's Office Blogs site After hijacking several of Microsoft's Twitter accounts and compromising its official blog over the past two weeks, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Microsoft Office Blogs site Monday. Read More   State of Maryland opts for gradual Google Apps rollout Adhering to the saying "be quick but don't hurry," the State of Maryland is in the midst of three and a half year migration to Google Apps, saying the measured, deliberate rollout is a better approach than a big-bang implementation. Read More   Supreme Court rejects SAP's appeal of $391M patent suit award The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from SAP of a US$391 million judgment given to Versata Software in a patent lawsuit the latter filed, but SAP is vowing to fight onward. Read More   NFL's CIO Looks to Improve Fan Experience With In-Stadium Tech NFL CIO Michelle McKenna-Doyle talks about plans to encourage NFL teams to deploy Wi-Fi and analytics engines in their stadiums. The goal is to improve the in-stadium experience, to allow fans the ability to use their mobile devices to consume more football content and share the experience. Read More   Preston Gralla: Is Microsoft breaking the law with its secret Xbox stealth marketing campaign? A stealth marketing campaign in which Microsoft is paying for Xbox One endorsements on YouTube may bring Microsoft more than a spate of bad publicity -- it could also violate Federal Trade Commission guidelines about misleading product endorsements. I've got details, including a look at the FTC regulations Read More   Jonny Evans: Apple 's education innovation goes global Apple's effort to innovate in education takes another small step forward today as the company extends its offering to international educators. Read More   Greg Lambert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January: An easy start to the year The first patch of the year, MS14-001, deals with 3 privately reported security vulnerabilities (all relating to memory corruption issues) affecting Microsoft Word. This vulnerability affects both 32 and 64-bit versions of all PC versions of Microsoft word, both RT versions of Word and the Web Services version as well. But, not the Mac version. Read More
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