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	Read this before you buy another hard drive It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even more valuable. 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 Gates talks Microsoft CEO search: Nothing to see, move along China blames Internet outage on hacking attack Group charges Google+ plan violates privacy pact in complaint with FTC U.S. issues 320,000 requests for Verizon customer data IBM moves again to sell low-end server business; Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo circling NSA whistleblower Snowden to hold live chat on Thursday Tip of the Hat: How to win the battle for top coders Tor exit nodes attempt to spy on encrypted traffic, researchers find Judge dismisses part of Oracle suit against Solaris support firms VMware acquires AirWatch to boost mobile device, application management Google to use YouTube performance to rate ISPs AMD slows new Opteron 6300 chips to match workloads Darlene Storm: Massive blimps over Maryland to conduct 24/7 domestic aerial surveillance JR Raphael: Android Power's 3 favorite things for January 2014 WEBCAST: CA Technologies   Empowering Mainframe Users to be More Successful In this video, CA Technologies and IBM talk about how the power of IBM's zEnterprise combined with CA Technologies portfolio of products are empowering Mainframe customers to be successful. Learn more>> Gates talks Microsoft CEO search: Nothing to see, move along Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates dodged questions yesterday about the lengthening search for a new chief executive to run the company he co-founded nearly 39 years ago. Read More   China blames Internet outage on hacking attack Tuesday's Internet outage in China is dividing experts over what caused the networking error, with authorities calling it a hacking attack, and others blaming it on the country's censorship systems. Read More   Group charges Google+ plan violates privacy pact in complaint with FTC Google, through its plan to link Gmail addresses to its Google+ social network, is violating a privacy agreement the company made with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a long-time critic of the company's privacy practices said in a complaint to the agency. Read More   U.S. issues 320,000 requests for Verizon customer data Verizon Communications received more than 320,000 requests for customer information from U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in 2013, more than 100 times the number of requests from any other country, the telecom carrier said in its first surveillance transparency report. Read More   IBM moves again to sell low-end server business; Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo circling IBM has revived efforts to sell its low-end server business and Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo are all lining up to take a look, according to reports this week. Read More   NSA whistleblower Snowden to hold live chat on Thursday   If you've ever wanted to ask NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a question, you might get your chance on Thursday, January 23 at 3 PM ET/12 PM Pacific. The man who revealed the startling revelations about the NSA's Prism program and cell phone metadata collection--and inspired a slew of security-focused apps and services--is lining up for his second official question and answer session tomorrow. Read More   Tip of the Hat: How to win the battle for top coders Though the employment picture remains bleak for many IT job seekers out there, the battle to hire talented software developers remains brutal. Here's some tips how to win the battle. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SugarCRM Learn why Analyst firm Ovum names SugarCRM a leading CRM The latest release of SugarCRM's flagship product gives users new tools to build extraordinary customer relationships. Read an in-depth analysis of SugarCRM's enhanced ability to help companies execute their customer-facing initiatives from Ovum, a leading technology research firm. View Now>> Tor exit nodes attempt to spy on encrypted traffic, researchers find Computer scientists found almost 20 exit relays in the Tor anonymity network that attempted to spy on users' encrypted traffic using man-in-the-middle techniques. Read More   Judge dismisses part of Oracle suit against Solaris support firms A federal judge has tossed out part of a lawsuit Oracle filed against third-party support providers Terix and Maintech, in what could set a precedent for similar cases. Read More   VMware acquires AirWatch to boost mobile device, application management VMware has reached a deal to acquire mobile management specialist AirWatch for US$1.54 billion, as it aims let users manage desktops, mobile devices and applications using its products. Read More   Google to use YouTube performance to rate ISPs A new Google service uses YouTube to shed some light on the bandwidth delivered by ISPs. Read More   AMD slows new Opteron 6300 chips to match workloads Vendors don't normally brag about slower products but Advanced Micro Devices is making an exception for its latest Opteron 6300 processors, which have a slower clock speed than their predecessors to reduce power consumption. Read More   Darlene Storm: Massive blimps over Maryland to conduct 24/7 domestic aerial surveillance Around October 1, people in Maryland will wonder what are those two huge objects in the sky? It's a bird; it's a plane; it's a . . . pair of high-dollar blimps capable of conducting surveillance 24/7 without blinking or sleeping, staying aloft for 30 days in a row, because the military and Raytheon say, "The threat is real." Read More   JR Raphael: Android Power's 3 favorite things for January 2014 Whether big or small, lots of great things get lost in the shuffle of our day-to-day Android discussion. Time to start shining the light on a few Android Power favorites. Read More
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