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	INSIDER IT power grab: Should you be a Machiavellian manager?   Years of striving for IT/business alignment have resulted in a service provider mentality within IT, one that casts the business as the customer who's always right. Some analysts are exhorting CIOs to grasp the reins of leadership instead. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BlackBerry BlackBerry's EZ Pass Offers Free EMM Licenses for BES10 BlackBerry has launched a free EMM license offer to persuade enterprises to upgrade their existing BlackBerry MDM platform, or migrate from any other MDM vendor*. Switch to BES10 and get perpetual Silver level EMM licenses for each existing BlackBerry license or other active MDM licenses, 1 for 1. Good, AirWatch and MobileIron licenses count too. Find out how your BlackBerry, iOS and Android management can be consolidated onto a single, highly secure EMM platform. If you've been waiting for the right time to switch to BES10, this is it. 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Learn More Armatix smart-gun tech reignites gun fight, with retailers in the middle The NRA and other gun right advocacy groups say they have no problem with adding technology to guns, as German-based Armatix has now done. But legislation mandating the technology will mean a fight. Read More   China counters US claims with own charges of cyber-espionage China's state-controlled media released Tuesday a report that claims the U.S. hacked into Chinese systems using phishing attacks. Read More   Researchers working on a computer that mimics the human brain Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a computer that can tackle real-world situations in real-time and can run on the same power as a 20-watt light bulb. Read More   Symantec tailors sharper small business security suite Symantec's latest product, Norton Small Business, is perhaps the most well-rounded offering the company has inserted into its product array for small companies. Read More   DOJ's charges against China reframe security, surveillance debate The U.S. Department of Justice's decision to bring computer hacking and economic espionage charges against five alleged members of the Chinese army is an attempt by the Obama's administration to redirect a global discussion about cyberhacking and surveillance, some cybersecurity experts said. Read More   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 Expect to hear a lot about wearables and design at Google I/O Google's annual I/O conference for developers takes place next month in San Francisco, and it looks like wearable computing will hog much of the limelight, along with an emphasis on better design. Read More   Cisco will lead SDN and win IT, Chambers says There's a big showdown coming in IT's pitting no-name hardware with overlaid software against purpose-built architectures that stretch from data centers to the edges of networks, Cisco CEO John Chambers says. Read More   Apple and Samsung fail to settle patent dispute in California Apple and Samsung Electronics told a court in California that they had failed to reach a settlement in their patent dispute, suggesting that a deal akin to that between Google and Apple may not be on the cards anytime soon. Read More   Jonny Evans: OS X Mavericks: Using Apple's hidden Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool Wi-Fi is essential to most Mac users, but what happens when your network gets sketchy? Apple's hidden Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool should help you improve Wi-Fi performance. Read More   Richi Jennings: DoJ indicts Chinese Army hackers of Unit 61398   The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday indicted five Chinese People's Liberation Army officers. The allegation is that they were hacking U.S. companies, to steal secrets. Wang Dong (UglyGorilla), Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu (WinXYHappy), Huang Zhenyu and Gu Chunhui, are all said to be officers in Unit 61398 of the Third Department of the PLA. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the popcorn. Read More
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