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	Ballmer regrets not aping Apple sooner In his first public appearance since he stepped down as Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer again acknowledged that the company missed the boat on mobile. Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Measuring Customer Satisfaction with Support Services This HDI Research Corner report reveals the findings from 264 support organizations that provide technical support for the services or products used by customers. Learn More In this Issue Hands on: Apple's Mac Pro is the fastest Mac ever NASA's 2015 budget plan maintains Mars landing plans Pre-installed malware found on new Android phones AT&T brings 'radical' network changes with SDN Yahoo services to cut Facebook, Google sign-ins Seagate plans high-capacity storage for tablets Michael Horowitz: Chromebooks are a revolution in Easy Richi Jennings: NSA did it again? This time GnuTLS fails to check malicious certificates WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock™ Systems and SAP: Transform Your Business You rely on your ERP System to drive your business and give you a strategic advantage. Now you can speed time-to-value throughout your operations while also lowering costs by running your SAP applications on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. Learn More Hands on: Apple's Mac Pro is the fastest Mac ever One thing is certain: You won't mistake Apple's powerful new Mac Pro for any other desktop computer. And it has the computing chops to match its high-style look. Read More NASA's 2015 budget plan maintains Mars landing plans NASA's $17.5 billion proposed fiscal 2015 budget would maintain the U.S. space agency's plan to send humans to Mars by 2030, to study near-Earth asteroids and to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Read More Pre-installed malware found on new Android phones Read More AT&T brings 'radical' network changes with SDN AT&T is remaking its infrastructure as a 'user-defined network cloud' in the pursuit of greater flexibility, lower costs and faster response to user needs, the carrier's infrastructure chief said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Security for Virtualization The view of leading analysts is that in the rush to implement virtualization, security has become a poor second. So while the business benefits are clear, the risks are less well documented and understood. This makes selecting the right virtual-aware anti-malware solution even more important. Learn More Yahoo services to cut Facebook, Google sign-ins Users of Yahoo services will down the line have to use a Yahoo username to sign on to its services, as the company plans to phase out signing up to these services using Facebook and Google credentials. Read More Seagate plans high-capacity storage for tablets Seagate Technology thinks the storage capacity could be larger in tablets, most of which come with a relatively small amount of native storage. Read More Michael Horowitz: Chromebooks are a revolution in Easy My last two blogs were about the security offered by Chromebooks, focusing first on traveling, then on running Flash. Here I discuss how easy it is to own a Chromebook. Basically, they require no ongoing care and feeding. Quite revolutionary. Read More Richi Jennings: NSA did it again? This time GnuTLS fails to check malicious certificates CVE-2014-0092: "Sky falling. Film at 11." GnuTLS, the widely-used open-source encryption library, has a simply horrible bug. And it's had that bug since 2003. It has a similar effect to the recently-discovered one in Apple OS code: It fails to correctly validate certificates. The conspiracy theorists are beginning to have a field day, with fingers pointing in the NSA's direction. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers don their tinfoil hats. Read More
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