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	Microsoft tries to tempt XP diehards with $100 discount on new PCs Microsoft yesterday began pitching another deal at pry-XP-from-my-cold-dead-hands customers, offering them $100 off a new Windows 8.1 device if they spring for one that costs more than $599. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Business Analytics Buying Criteria: The Three Maxims In this Advisory, Clabby Analytics looks more closely at the importance of implementing an integrated infrastructure — and its relationship to business analytics. Learn More In this Issue A tech effort seeks to make climate change up close and personal Ex-Mozilla engineer blames Microsoft's rules for Metro Firefox's death 3D printing slips into fashion design Microsoft to review policies after admitting it searched customer email Video: IDG's Patrick J. McGovern on how he wants to be remembered Tim Cook's approval ranking climbs one spot in top-50 CEO list iOS tops Android for Web browsing in U.S. and other developed nations Samsung hopes to drum up interest for S5 with hands-on demos Lenovo buys mobile-related patents for $100M JR Raphael: This Android app will change the way you use your phone Jonny Evans: Apple and Google are chasing a 35-year smartwatch dream Preston Gralla: Microsoft snoops on blogger's email account. Is yours safe? Report rips state officials, Oracle over Oregon's troubled healthcare site WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Build The Future: The Era of the Dynamic Data Center The moment of truth has arrived: corporate IT is no longer in charge of the data and computing assets that run the business. Discover how empowering a dynamic data center and providing technology choices can help IT departments continue to be an essential source of expertise for the business. Learn more>> A tech effort seeks to make climate change up close and personal The White House, tech companies and others believe more Americans would take action on climate change if its affects could be visualized up close, down to its impact house by house. Read More Ex-Mozilla engineer blames Microsoft's rules for Metro Firefox's death A former Mozilla engineer who worked on the "Metro" version of Firefox says that poor adoption of Windows 8's radical user interface wasn't behind the decision to shelve the browser. Read More 3D printing slips into fashion design The 3D printing technology is most widely used for manufacturing prototypes quickly and inexpensively. Over the past several years, however, 3D printing has moved into applications such as architecture, dental and medical and even human tissue replication. One burgeoning marketplace is 3D printing is fashion, including garments, footwear, jewelry and eye wear. For example, South African fashion designer Michaella Janse van Vuuren just announced a collection multi-material 3D printed designs using Stratasys¿ new Objet500 Connex3 3D Printer. San Francisco-based startup Continuum lets anyone design their own clothing through its Constrvct online destination, where digital designs are exported to pattern files. The company then uses the files to manufacture the garments on 3-D printers. The company also designs its own 3D printed wear, such as moldable dresses, bikinis, and shoes. Read More Microsoft to review policies after admitting it searched customer email Microsoft promised to subject itself to a more rigorous process before searching through its customers' email accounts in the future after a recent legal case revealed that the company searched for evidence of theft of its trade secrets in a Hotmail account. Read More Video: IDG's Patrick J. McGovern on how he wants to be remembered Here's how IDG founder and chairman Patrick J. McGovern, who died Wednesday, said he wants to be remembered. Read More Tim Cook's approval ranking climbs one spot in top-50 CEO list Even as Apple CEO Tim Cook is blasted by some investors for not being the next Steve Jobs, the company's employees boosted his approval rating to the 17th spot on an annual ranking of the top U.S. chief executives. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Transforming Your Business with Software as a Service IBM SmartCloud Solutions delivers the SaaS solutions needed to maximize collaborations, accelerate innovations, make impactful, informed decisions and become a truly customer-centric organization. Learn More iOS tops Android for Web browsing in U.S. and other developed nations Android smartphones from all manufacturers make up nearly 80% of all smartphones recently sold worldwide, but iOS still dominates when it comes to Web browsing in the U.S. and other developed countries. Read More Samsung hopes to drum up interest for S5 with hands-on demos Samsung Electronics is laying the groundwork for the launches of the Galaxy S5, Gear 2 smartwatch and Gear Fit with hands-on demos in more than 61 countries. Read More Lenovo buys mobile-related patents for $100M China's Lenovo is buying up patents related to 3G and 4G technologies from U.S.-based Unwired Planet for $100 million, as the company sets about expanding with its proposed Motorola Mobility acquisition. Read More JR Raphael: This Android app will change the way you use your phone Every now and then, an Android app comes along that has the potential to change the way you use your device. This is one of those apps. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple and Google are chasing a 35-year smartwatch dream Way back in December 1979 LA's Windert Watch Company announced the first smartwatch, and much of what it thought then suggests what we are looking forward to from Apple, Motorola and others today. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft snoops on blogger's email account. Is yours safe? As part of an investigation into a leak of Windows 8, Microsoft snooped on the Hotmail emails and instant messages of a blogger. The company claims it was all legal. Is your Microsoft account safe from the company's prying eyes? Read More Report rips state officials, Oracle over Oregon's troubled healthcare site A newly released, independent audit of Oregon's disastrous Obamacare website implementation takes both state officials and site contractor Oracle to task, saying each side contributed to problems that have generated a political firestorm in recent months. Read More
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