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	At 10, Facebook strives to not be your granny's social network Facebook, the company that defines social networking, is turning 10 years old and looking into a future where it must evolve or risk becoming the next MySpace -- a company Facebook eclipsed years ago. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference Save the Date: CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference, Feb 25 The CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference 2014 agenda is being crafted with the expert guidance of our Dallas CIO Advisory Board members, which includes CIOs from Dr. Pepper Snapple, Energy Future Holdings, PrimeLending, Santander, Texas A&M, Transamerica Life Insurance and more. Register Today! In this Issue LG G Flex deep-dive review: The curious case of the curved phone Samsung hints at Galaxy S5 launch at MWC Dell cuts 'small percentage' of workforce Despite Target data breach, PCI security standard remains solid, chief says Windows XP cutoff poses breach risk for retailers Hackers may have hit Holiday Inn, Marriott hotels Intel execs saw sharp compensation cuts in 2013 There's a rapid push to give tech something we're born with: senses Google, Facebook, Microsoft show steady rise in surveillance data requests HP finds Autonomy accounting errors, revises financial reports Democratic lawmakers look to restore net neutrality U.S. seeks rule for adding add tech to cars to prevent accidents JR Raphael: LG G Flex: When renderings don't match reality Richi Jennings: Closely examined IT companies disclose FISA requests WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   10 Steps to Reducing Mainframe MLC Costs Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. Learn More LG G Flex deep-dive review: The curious case of the curved phone The new LG G Flex Android smartphone has a curved design, flexible body, and 'self-healing' skin. Does that make a difference in real-world use? Read More   Samsung hints at Galaxy S5 launch at MWC Samsung Electronics is planning a launch event dubbed Unpacked 5 at Mobile World Congress, hinting that it will launch the Galaxy S5 there. Read More   Dell cuts 'small percentage' of workforce Dell Monday confirmed it has cut its global workforce by what it called a "small percentage," which could mean a reduction of thousands of employees. Read More   Despite Target data breach, PCI security standard remains solid, chief says The head of the organization in charge of maintaining security controls over credit card transactions insisted Monday that its standards remain solid despite the concerns raised by data breaches at Target and other companies. Read More   Windows XP cutoff poses breach risk for retailers Retailers will face an increased risk of data breaches after Microsoft ends support for Windows XP, a version of which powers the majority of modern cash registers, security vendor Symantec warned in a report published Monday. Read More   Hackers may have hit Holiday Inn, Marriott hotels Lodgers at Holiday Inns, Marriott and Renaissance hotels may have had their payment card details compromised following a new disclosure on Monday of suspected point-of-sale device attacks. Read More   Intel execs saw sharp compensation cuts in 2013 The total compensation packages of top executives at Intel fell sharply in 2013 as a result of changes in the way the chip maker pays senior employees. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation   The MDM advantage: Creating insight from big data To help enterprises create trusted insight as the volume, velocity and variety of data continue to explode, IBM offers several solutions designed to help organizations uncover previously unavailable insights and use them to support and inform decisions across the business. View Now There's a rapid push to give tech something we're born with: senses Any product that can be connected to a network is also being given the ability to sense our environment, largely through use of MEMS sensors. Read More   Google, Facebook, Microsoft show steady rise in surveillance data requests Google, Facebook and Microsoft were among the technology companies to release new figures showing a rising number of requests for their users' data coming from a secretive U.S. surveillance court. Read More   HP finds Autonomy accounting errors, revises financial reports Hewlett-Packard has revised financial reports for its Autonomy division after the company said that an audit turned up a number of serious accounting errors. Read More   Democratic lawmakers look to restore net neutrality A group of Democrat lawmakers have introduced a bill in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to restore net neutrality rules at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Read More   U.S. seeks rule for adding add tech to cars to prevent accidents The U.S. Department of Transportation will propose making all new cars talk to each other so they can warn drivers of impending collisions. Read More   JR Raphael: LG G Flex: When renderings don't match reality LG's G Flex is a curved phone -- but the curve LG's marketing materials depict and the curve actually present on the device are two very different things. Read More   Richi Jennings: Closely examined IT companies disclose FISA requests Under the gun and a microscope, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) are rushing to out-do one another in releasing their inaugural FISA reports to the public. FISA -- the pleasant-to-the-ears acronym of the dread Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- is a law that requires IT firms to hand users' data to a secretive U.S. court upon request. Now eager to reverse negative perception, IT companies are spreading their FISA request numbers far and wide. That's fine with bloggers, as long as they aren't a favorite request. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers read between the lines. Read More
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