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	Buy a Surface Pro 3, get it at summer's end Microsoft Wednesday kicked off pre-sales of its new Surface Pro 3 tablet, but some of those orders won't be fulfilled until the end of summer. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Unisys Keeping UP with Mobile Trendsetters Is your organization making the most of mobile? In this IDG Research Services study, we take a global look at adoption trends, examining how and why some companies are pulling ahead of the mobile curve. We offer the best practices and prescriptive advice that you can put to work today—for a more mobile tomorrow Learn more In this Issue 11 spring cleaning tips for CIOs SAP ships updated mobile app development tools Internet 'Do Not Track' system is in shatters Obama backs new spy law that tech companies reject BlackBerry unveils app development tools for IoT Cisco loses IoT chief to Chinese startup China to block IT products that don't pass 'cybersecurity vetting' tests Researchers create conductor that could prevent lithium-ion battery fires Lawsuit versus Oculus VR heads to court ahead of Facebook acquisition Oracle set to launch in-memory database option How Netflix streams movies to your TV IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system Preston Gralla: Microsoft's brand value surges, is now number 4 worldwide Jonny Evans: iOS 7: Using your iPhone to get the milk Richi Jennings: DANGER: Nest Protect may not protect your nest from fire (hence Wave recall) WHITE PAPER: Medhost Improve care delivery and performance MEDHOST YourCareCommunity is built on prevailing industry standards, making it vendor-agnostic, and as an SaaS-based solution, no hardware or software needs to be installed at the Customer site. Learn More 11 spring cleaning tips for CIOs With spring now in full bloom, it's a good time for your IT organization to undertake a thorough spring cleaning. Here are tips from four CIOs and CTOs for cleaning up your IT environment. Read More   SAP ships updated mobile app development tools SAP AG Thursday announced the general availability of SAP Mobile Platform 3.0, a common software development kit (SDK) for developers to build apps for use by consumers, business partners as well as employees. Read More   Internet 'Do Not Track' system is in shatters Chalk up another victory for corporate surveillance: Five years after advocates came up with an easy way to let you browse the Web with just a little privacy, the Do Not Track system is in tatters and that pair of boots you looked at online last month is still stalking you from website to website. Read More   Obama backs new spy law that tech companies reject A tech industry group that has Facebook and Google as participants has rejected the latest draft of a U.S. legislation that aims to put curbs on surveillance by the National Security Agency. Read More   BlackBerry unveils app development tools for IoT BlackBerry says it can take back-end software development off the to-do lists of enterprises that want to take advantage of the Internet of Things. Read More   Cisco loses IoT chief to Chinese startup Cisco Systems hinted at future plans for the Internet of Things on Wednesday even as its former IoT chief joined a Shanghai-based startup that plans to use sensors and big data for renewable energy. Read More   China to block IT products that don't pass 'cybersecurity vetting' tests China is threatening to block companies from selling IT products in the nation if they fail to pass a new 'cybersecurity vetting system' meant to weed out secret spying and surveillance activities. Read More   : Axeda Corporation An Executives' Guide: The Machine of the Future This eBook has been developed to help executives understand the value of M2M and IoT to enterprises. We will include a framework CEOs can use to include connected products in their corporate strategies and strategic initiatives. For those new to the topic, this eBook can serve as a primer on the business case for investing in M2M and IoT. Learn More Researchers create conductor that could prevent lithium-ion battery fires Japanese researchers have developed a new type of lithium-ion conductor that could help prevent the kind of lithium-ion battery fires that grounded the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft last year. Read More   Lawsuit versus Oculus VR heads to court ahead of Facebook acquisition The dispute between Oculus VR, a wearable virtual reality technology company that Facebook is acquiring, and ZeniMax Media reached court Wednesday. Read More   Oracle set to launch in-memory database option Oracle could be gearing up to make an anticipated in-memory computing option for its flagship 12c database generally available after hyping it for the better part of a year, judging from an upcoming appearance by CEO Larry Ellison. Read More   How Netflix streams movies to your TV At peak times, Netflix accounts for around a third of the consumer Internet traffic in North America. This week, one of its senior engineers described how it gets all those movies to your screen. Read More   IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system A former network engineer for oil and gas company EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company's systems badly enough to disrupt its business operations for a month. Read More   Preston Gralla: Microsoft's brand value surges, is now number 4 worldwide Ever since Satya Nadella took the reigns of Microsoft from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft has been on a roll. Now here's more evidence: Microsoft's brand is the fourth most valuable in the world, surging 29% in a single year, while Apple's dropped 20%. Read More   Jonny Evans: iOS 7: Using your iPhone to get the milk You need to get some milk after work, which means you need to pick it up from the store near your work on the way home. Here's how your iPhone can help you remember to do it: Read More   Richi Jennings: DANGER: Nest Protect may not protect your nest from fire (hence Wave recall) ...Will Robinson!? Nest Labs -- now a Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) company -- is recalling all its fancy Nest Protect smoke-and-CO detectors. It seems that they may not always sound an alarm when they should, because a key feature doesn't work right. Oops. That's embarrassing. Still, it's a good thing that no Nest customers have been burned alive, suffocated by smoke, or poisoned by carbon monoxide, eh? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder returning the product for a refund. Read More
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