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	OS upgrades: Cheap is better than pricey, free is better than cheap Lowering the price of an operating system upgrade accelerates its uptake five-fold, but setting an upgrade free stomps on that pedal, boosting uptake as much as 12 times, data from an analytics company shows. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CSO40 Security Confab + Awards Conference CSO40 Security Confab + Awards Meet CSO40 Award winners and learn from the best about security challenges and solutions across areas including: Advanced Threats and Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management, Security Intelligence/Leveraging Big Data for Security, Mobile and BYOD Risks, Privacy, and more. Register now. In this Issue Facebook eyes solar-powered drone company Apple's CarPlay vs. MirrorLink: Is there a need for both? Apple CFO to retire in September after he cashes in $53M stock award Toshiba's OCZ cranks up speed on new 3.2TB solid state drives Microsoft finally rolls out Skype-Outlook.com integration to all users Career advice: Moving into Internet security New AMD Sempron chip targets desktops Evan Schuman: Mobile IT Roach Motel: Data checks in, but it won't check out Microsoft extends Dynamics ERP; adds support for Azure cloud CIOs grappling with software bloat Red Hat polishes business process management suite Broadcom hopes new specs can boost OpenFlow switch performance Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after massive theft Preston Gralla: Windows tablet sales continue to tank -- can hybrids and Windroid save the day? WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation   Must-have capabilities for today's warehouse environment Speed, simplicity and affordability: 3 capabilities businesses need from their warehousing environment. IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration gives organizations a complete, multipurpose environment to rapidly distill insight from their data, make timely decisions and capitalize on opportunities View Now Facebook eyes solar-powered drone company Facebook is reportedly buying Titan Aerospace, a New Mexico-based company known for making solar-powered drones. Read More   Apple's CarPlay vs. MirrorLink: Is there a need for both? Both MirrorLink and Apple's new CarPlay will eventually be able to duplicate some iPhone functions on a car's in-vehicle infotainment system. But MirrorLink can also handle Android, Windows and Blackberry phones. Read More   Apple CFO to retire in September after he cashes in $53M stock award Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, a long-familiar voice to Wall Street on the company's quarterly earnings calls, will retire at the end of September. Read More   Toshiba's OCZ cranks up speed on new 3.2TB solid state drives OCZ Storage Solutions is starting a new chapter in its enterprise operations with shipments of a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that offer maximum storage capacity of 3.2TB. Read More   Microsoft finally rolls out Skype-Outlook.com integration to all users After testing a preview version of the Outlook.com-Skype integration for almost a year in some markets, Microsoft has now made it generally available to all users. Read More   Career advice: Moving into Internet security Premier 100 IT Leader Stuart Kippelman also answers questions on career growth. Read More   New AMD Sempron chip targets desktops Advanced Micro Devices' Sempron processor brand has polarized chip fans since its 2004 introduction in laptops, but a fresh batch of the processors is being targeted at its desktop fan base. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation   Forrester Total Economic Impact of Optim Solutions In this 2013 study, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying IBM InfoSphere Optim data lifecycle management solutions for Data Growth and Test Data Management. View Now Evan Schuman: Mobile IT Roach Motel: Data checks in, but it won't check out Even if a company were willing to expunge personal data that it had been authorized to collect, the realities of IT systems mean it probably could never completely do that. Read More   Microsoft extends Dynamics ERP; adds support for Azure cloud Microsoft has completed a series of moves aimed at making its Dynamics AX ERP software a more viable option for large enterprises, and plans to showcase them this week during the Convergence conference in Atlanta. Read More   CIOs grappling with software bloat More and more corporate IT departments around the world are straining under the weight of unnecessary software applications, according to a survey by systems integrator Capgemini. Read More   Red Hat polishes business process management suite Thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Polymita, Red Hat has added major functionality to its software suite for managing business processes, making the package an appealing choice in the enterprise market for BPM (business process management) software. Read More   Broadcom hopes new specs can boost OpenFlow switch performance Chip maker Broadcom has announced a new specification along with software and APIs to improve the performance of OpenFlow switches and to make it easier for hardware vendors to build products. Read More   Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after massive theft Flexcoin, a site that described itself as the "world's first bitcoin bank," has closed after it got hacked and all of the bitcoins it had placed in online storage were stolen, the site recently announced. Read More   Preston Gralla: Windows tablet sales continue to tank -- can hybrids and Windroid save the day? Microsoft hasn't gained any real ground in the tablet market -- Gartner says it had only a 2.1% market share in 2013. Can the growth of hybrids and possibly Windroid devices help give Microsoft the boost it needs? Read More
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