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	15 tips for surviving -- and thriving -- as an IT contractor Pundits are calling 2014 the year of the IT contractor. Here are 15 tips for setting up shop and making it stick. Read More   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 In this Issue As AT&T and Google push broadband adoption, the feds are non-players Apple kicks off public OS X beta testing US to vote on sharp increase in broadband subsidies Cool tech and hot cars from the N.Y. Int'l Auto Show Phone buyers are hanging up on subsidies and opting for installment plans Google, Samsung signed secret pact over Apple patent claims Toshiba, SanDisk NAND flash memory shrinks to 15-nanometer process Here's what kind of tablet $5,000 gets you Coding error protects some Android apps from Heartbleed Violin and Microsoft use an all-flash storage array to speed up apps Reddit demotes technology subthread after posts were deleted Richi Jennings: Apple puts pre-release OS X on the map RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Help Desk Technology Corporation Drive Down Help Desk Costs by using Collaborative Workflow Collaborative workflow is a hybrid system that combines service management (workflow) software with social software (such as chat, instant messaging, and document collaboration). The synergy between the two provides project structure and measureable goals, while facilitating communications and interactions typical of social software. Discover rich functionality including help desk, ITIL, document management, calendaring, built-in projects, remote screen sharing, business rules, dashboards, asset management, chargeback, custom data designer, encryption, and more. As AT&T and Google push broadband adoption, the feds are non-players AT&T and Google have talked up plans to extend supercharged broadband speeds to several U.S. cities and offer lesser service for free to underserved areas. But whether they, and other providers, can bridge the nation's digital divide without federal help remains to be seen. Read More   Apple kicks off public OS X beta testing Apple followed Microsoft in opening up pre-release, or beta, versions of its personal computer operating system to all comers. Read More   US to vote on sharp increase in broadband subsidies   The Federal Communications Commission will vote Wednesday on a proposal to pump $1.8 billion into a fund that subsidizes broadband deployments in rural communities. Read More   Cool tech and hot cars from the N.Y. Int'l Auto Show The New York International Auto Show, which runs through April 27, allows automakers to show off the latest technology on four wheels. Here are some of the highlights from this year's big event. Read More   Phone buyers are hanging up on subsidies and opting for installment plans Installment plans for cellphones are starting to squeeze out the time-honored practice of paying a subsidized price up front, AT&T says. Read More   Google, Samsung signed secret pact over Apple patent claims Google agreed to take over some of Samsung's defense against patent claims brought by Apple under a secret agreement reached in 2012, a federal court jury heard Tuesday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   IT Friction and Your Organization This report outlines key issues that cause friction between business users and IT. Learn More Toshiba, SanDisk NAND flash memory shrinks to 15-nanometer process Partners Toshiba and SanDisk have developed 15-nanometer process technology for NAND flash memory widely used in smartphones and tablets. Read More   Here's what kind of tablet $5,000 gets you Can your tablet withstand a 2-meter drop or be submerged in water for 30 minutes and keep functioning? The new $5,000 tablets from Xplore Technologies can. Read More   Coding error protects some Android apps from Heartbleed Some Android apps thought to be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug were spared because of a common coding error in the way they implemented their own native OpenSSL library. Read More   Violin and Microsoft use an all-flash storage array to speed up apps A partnership between Microsoft and Violin Memory will let enterprises tightly tie a new all-flash storage array to their servers, speeding up popular Microsoft applications. Read More   Reddit demotes technology subthread after posts were deleted Reddit has removed from its front page the popular r/technology subreddit after what it called bad editorial choices by the page's moderators. Read More   Richi Jennings: Apple puts pre-release OS X on the map Apple quietly started a new program that permits users to try out pre-release versions of OS X. Named "Beta Seed," the program is available to anyone free of charge. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers believe silence is golden. Read More
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