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	Microsoft's quandary: Big profits from software or shrinking margins with devices For all his talk of "devices and services," when Steve Ballmer hands over the reins to a new CEO, he will leave an economic powerhouse that prints money by making software, but makes little on anything else. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Onboarding 2013 - A New Look at New Hires This study of 230 organizations, conducted in January and February 2013, will explore the best practices organizations use to transform basic new hire orientations into strategic initiatives and how they leverage world-class technology to boost productivity, engagement, and retention. Learn More In this Issue Detroit wants its own high-tech visa Google acquires artificial intelligence company DeepMind Microsoft retains weapon to silently scrub XP Why Facebook and Google+ are headed in opposite directions Arts and crafts chain Michaels investigates possible data breach Microsoft says law enforcement documents likely stolen by hackers How about them apples: Google and Samsung ink patent deal Apple plans to add mobile-payments offering 18 essential Hadoop tools for crunching big data Steve Pate: Teenage wasteland: The modern face of cyberthreats China's Baidu testing search engines for Brazil, Egypt, Thailand To get video into more conference rooms, Logitech goes medium Richi Jennings: Max Mosley vs. Google over pictures with prostitutes -- Streisand in full effect RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference Special Invite to CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference-Feb 25 Agenda highlights include: Innovative Approaches to Digital Disruption & Business Model Change; Transforming the IT-Business Partnership; Finding and Keeping Great IT Talent; Strategies for C-Suite Leadership & Success; Innovative Approaches to Digital Disruption & Business Model Change. Visit our website and register today! Detroit wants its own high-tech visa Detroit, a city in bankruptcy and dealing with a shrinking population, hopes to turn itself around with the help of 50,000 employment-based green cards. Read More   Google acquires artificial intelligence company DeepMind Google has acquired DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company in London, reportedly for $400 million. Read More   Microsoft retains weapon to silently scrub XP Microsoft will be able to silently reach into Windows XP PCs for more than a year after it stops patching the aged OS to clean malware-infected machines, sources close to the company confirmed. Read More   Why Facebook and Google+ are headed in opposite directions The two major social sites, Facebook and Google+, are embracing opposite strategies for the future, but they are heading to the same place: To add social intelligence to everything you do. Read More   Arts and crafts chain Michaels investigates possible data breach Michaels, a large U.S.-based arts and craft store chain, said Saturday it is investigating a possible data breach after suspicious activity was detected on payment cards used at its stores. Read More   Microsoft says law enforcement documents likely stolen by hackers Documents linked with law enforcement inquiries appear to have been stolen in recent phishing attacks on certain employee email accounts, Microsoft said. Read More   WEBCAST: SAP Big Data and Big Insights with Dell, SAP and Hadoop Big Data is already a trend that companies are jumping to. The possibility of exploiting massive amounts of data from multiple sources to make sound business decisions seemed like nirvana a couple of years ago; however now this is a reality. View more. Learn more How about them apples: Google and Samsung ink patent deal Google and Samsung have signed a "global patent cross-license agreement" that covers the companies' existing patents and future ones over the next 10 years. Read More   Apple plans to add mobile-payments offering Apple is making internal and external moves to expand its ability to handle mobile payments, stepping more deeply into a market where rivals would include PayPal, Google and niche specialists like Square and Stripe, according to The Wall Street Journal. Read More   18 essential Hadoop tools for crunching big data   Making the most of this powerful MapReduce platform means mastering a vibrant ecosystem of quickly evolving code. Read More   Steve Pate: Teenage wasteland: The modern face of cyberthreats A multimillion-dollar security infrastructure, built and maintained by one of the world's largest retailers and designed to shuttle sensitive information on millions of consumers between financial institutions of every size, was brought to its knees by a cheap software package created by a teenager using a common development language. Read More   China's Baidu testing search engines for Brazil, Egypt, Thailand Baidu is testing new search engines for users outside China that will target markets including Brazil, Egypt and Thailand. Read More   To get video into more conference rooms, Logitech goes medium Logitech is turning to what it knows best with its latest in-office videoconferencing system: Rather than a standalone hardware and software platform, the ConferenceCam CC3000e is essentially a peripheral. Read More   Richi Jennings: Max Mosley vs. Google over pictures with prostitutes -- Streisand in full effect Google has lost another European case brought by Max Mosley. He wants the pictures of him with prostitutes removed from the search engine's index. Funny how we'd all forgotten about these salacious images, but Max has reminded us all over again. And, no, your humble blogwatcher isn't going to link to them. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the Streisand Effect. Read More
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