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	Lumia sales slump sabotages Microsoft's strategy before it starts Nokia's disclosure today of weak Lumia sales last quarter has put Microsoft's devices strategy in the hole even before it finalizes the acquisition of the Finnish firm, analysts 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. 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Read More   Obama in awkward spot after privacy board calls NSA snooping illegal A report Thursday by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board calling the NSA's bulk phone records collection program illegal and mostly useless puts the Obama Administration in an awkward spot. Read More   Target breach shows payment system security needs less talk, more action Retailers and banks must move quickly to figure out who should be responsible for better securing the payments system network or risk having Congress decide for them. Read More   Nokia sales disappoint as Microsoft readies phone group takeover Nokia's improving Lumia shipments came to a halt during the fourth quarter, bad news for Microsoft, which will soon take over the phone unit. Read More   Windows malware tries to infect Android devices connected to PCs A new computer Trojan program attempts to install mobile banking malware on Android devices when they're connected to infected PCs, according to researchers from Symantec. Read More   Online movie streaming can be profitable as TV, disc sales If movie producers charged a $15 monthly fee to just 45% of the world's online subscribers, they could rake in just as much cash as they currently do through TV downloads and disc sales, a report released today showed. 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 Snapchat's new image-based human verification system already defeated Snapchat added an image-based security challenge to its account registration process to verify that new accounts are created by humans, but the system can easily be defeated by computers, experts said. Read More   Salesforce.com courts .NET developers with new tools Salesforce.com has announced a new set of tools aimed at Microsoft .NET developers, in a move that acknowledges customers' existing investment in .NET and which could help expand the size of Salesforce.com's developer community. Read More   BlackBerry moves to block sales of Typo keyboard BlackBerry has asked a California court to block U.S. sales of the Typo keyboard, an add-on keyboard for the iPhone that BlackBerry says is an "obvious knock-off" of the keyboards on its phones. Read More   How Proper Etiquette Can Help You Land Your Dream Tech Job Job interviews can be nerve-wracking, but preparing for them and handling follow-up doesn't have to be. Here are some 'beyond the obvious' tips for acing the lead-up and the aftermath of job interviews. Read More   Preston Gralla: Nokia's Lumia smartphone sales tank -- can Windows Phone survive it? Just as the deal for Microsoft to buy Nokia's handset division is about to close, Nokia released its latest earnings and sales figures, and it's all bad news. Worst of all: sales of Lumia Windows Phones are dropping at a time they should have hit an all-time high. Can Windows Phone survive many more quarters like this? Read More   Jonny Evans: Apple and Google want your body The next battleground in the unyielding Apple versus Google war will be health, as the two tech giants push their vision of wearable computing into the sector -- and both firms want your body, as well as your mind. Read More   JR Raphael: The case against using a smartphone case Think you absolutely need a bulky case for your phone? Think again. Inside, one man's argument for going protection-free for full pleasure. Read More
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