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	Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Identify and Minimize Fraud Risks View this IBM webinar to learn about the challenges and opportunities in fraud reduction, waste, and abuse in government programs and agencies. You will learn how IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) can help your organization. Learn More. In this Issue Arizona tech firms fight anti-gay bill and a future in a pariah state Smart highways and driverless cars coming in 2030 -- for real? IBM CEO Rometty touts Watson mobile app challenge Hunting for Earth 2.0: NASA finds 715 new planets BlackBerry exec talks updated BES management server U.S. House passes bill allowing mobile phone unlocking New chipsets and devices lay groudwork for LTE-Advanced Comcast can't fight disruption by growing bigger Management vendors show Windows Phone some love MWC 2014 video: IDG Daily, Feb. 26 Graphical language aims to do away with proprietary digital styluses SAP, BMW research project to connect drivers with real-time offers and services Japan probes Mt. Gox after U.S. issues subpoena Jonny Evans: Apple tells Arizona to drop its anti-gay pride JR Raphael: How to measure your heart rate with any Android phone Darlene Storm: RSA CEO remarks upon NSA, then wants RSA to lead the security industry into cyber utopia Preston Gralla: New report calls Windows Phone 'top performer' and 'fastest growing OS in the world' RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference + Expo Trending now: Consumerization of enterprise IT You've heard about consumerization...but how can you use it to give your organization a competitive edge? Find out at the third annual Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) April 27–29 in San Francisco. Learn how consumer-driven technology can transform your business, your workplace, and your customer relationships. Learn more Arizona tech firms fight anti-gay bill and a future in a pariah state Arizona's tech industry is united in fighting a state bill that allows a business to deny service to gay customers for religious reasons. Read More   Smart highways and driverless cars coming in 2030 -- for real? Crowds at Mobile World Congress clamored to see in-car infotainment systems that will soon be connected to the Internet via wireless networks around the globe. Read More   IBM CEO Rometty touts Watson mobile app challenge IBM CEO Ginni Rometty took to the Mobile World Congress stage Wednesday to announce a global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by its Watson supercomputer platform. Read More   Hunting for Earth 2.0: NASA finds 715 new planets NASA today announced the discovery of 715 planets orbiting 305 stars, revealing multi-planet systems much like our own solar system. Read More   BlackBerry exec talks updated BES management server The head of BlackBerry's enterprise services business is plotting an aggressive launch of a new version of the company's core enterprise server later this year as BlackBerry seeks to regain some of the ground it's lost over the last few years. Read More   U.S. House passes bill allowing mobile phone unlocking   The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow mobile phone users to unlock their devices and switch carriers, overriding a 2013 decision by the Library of Congress to make the practice illegal. Read More   New chipsets and devices lay groudwork for LTE-Advanced   Chip vendors and device makers are readying the smartphones, hotspots and cars that will let users eventually enjoy higher download speeds with LTE-Advanced. Read More   Comcast can't fight disruption by growing bigger A company that pursues growth through buyout while ignoring the market realities that are undermining its position will just make a louder noise when it finally falls. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Ultrium LTO Consortium The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape Disk-based solutions for data protection have opened up new storage options for organizations. The question should not be whether to choose disk or tape, but rather how to leverage both technologies to deploy a cost-effective tiered-storage architecture. Read now Management vendors show Windows Phone some love IBM-owned Fiberlink and BlackBerry are adding Windows Phone to the list of platforms they can manage and protect, as enterprise interest for the smartphone OS is increasing. Read More   MWC 2014 video: IDG Daily, Feb. 26 Coming up today from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we'll go ears on with the noise cancelling headphones on Sony's Z2 smartphone and check out a Bluetooth low energy home monitoring system. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb Read More   Graphical language aims to do away with proprietary digital styluses Wacom has grand designs for a new graphical language that, it says, will allow input and sharing of writing movements across multiple platforms, with or without one of its trademark digital styluses. Read More   SAP, BMW research project to connect drivers with real-time offers and services SAP and BMW have created a prototype that uses SAP's HANA in-memory database platform to send personalized services and offers to people as they drive around in their cars. Read More   Japan probes Mt. Gox after U.S. issues subpoena Japan's top government spokesman said authorities are gathering information on the situation at Tokyo-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, where trading halted amid concerns that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin are missing. Read More   Jonny Evans: Apple tells Arizona to drop its anti-gay pride Apple says there's no saving Arizona if it allows its controversial anti-gay prejudice bill to become law, and it's hard to disagree. Read More   JR Raphael: How to measure your heart rate with any Android phone The Galaxy S5 may have a fancy heart rate monitor, but you can actually check your pulse with any Android phone. Here's how. Read More   Darlene Storm: RSA CEO remarks upon NSA, then wants RSA to lead the security industry into cyber utopia RSA CEO Art Coviello tackled the "trust" issue during his RSA keynote presentation, telling conference attendees that the NSA exploited its position of trust. He also proposed four principles that should guide the security industry . . . with the RSA as an 'agent of change' potentially heading up this march toward cyber utopia. Read More   Preston Gralla: New report calls Windows Phone 'top performer' and 'fastest growing OS in the world' It may seem that there's only bad news for Windows Phone these days, but a new report from a respected research firm says that Windows is the "fastest growing OS in the world," and sees good times ahead for it. Is this just hype, or is there some truth behind it? Read More
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