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	Why I'm sending back Google Glass Now that Glass is available to anyone with $1,500 to burn, you might be tempted to buy a pair. Our tester shares 10 good reasons not to. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: iDashboards Beautiful dashboards. Powerful Insights. At iDashboards, we don't just provide a richer, more visually engaging way to display your data. We offer the fastest, easiest way to build dashboards that give context for any user, in any organization, so they can get real meaning from their raw data. Break away from the status quo and into decision-making based on real-time information. Download a free trial today and discover how easy it is to transform raw data into beautiful and insightful dashboards. In this Issue Toaster, refrigerator, meet tablet, notebook: Apple and Microsoft trade takes on 2-in-1s Hands on with Surface Pro 3: Lots to like, just not the price Google plans international acquisitions worth up to $30B AT&T hacker wants government to pay him $13M Lenovo's Q1 profit grows 25% on PC, smartphone gains Google+ rolls out 'Stories' for tricked out photo playback Despite source code leak, Android malware fetches top $5,000 price Public utility compromised after brute-force attack, DHS says Lawmakers to FCC: Stop mulling net neutrality reclassification DuckDuckGo redesigns search to include auto-suggest, local results Richi Jennings: Surface Pro 3: 3rd time's a charm for Microsoft WHITE PAPER: SAS A Non-Geek's Big Data Playbook This white paper is designed to be a visual playbook for the non-geek yet technically savvy business professional who is still trying to understand how big data, specifically Hadoop, impacts the enterprise data game we've all been playing for years. Learn more Toaster, refrigerator, meet tablet, notebook: Apple and Microsoft trade takes on 2-in-1s Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pushed the need for blending tablets and notebooks at the unveiling of the Surface Pro 3, countering earlier arguments by Apple CEO Tim Cook that the trade-offs from such devices don't please anybody. Read More Hands on with Surface Pro 3: Lots to like, just not the price Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 would be a good tablet to replace my laptop, but at $799 to start, it's just too expensive. Read More Google plans international acquisitions worth up to $30B Google plans to spend $20 billion to $30 billion of its of its accumulated international profits to fund potential acquisitions of non-U.S. companies and technology rights. Read More AT&T hacker wants government to pay him $13M Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer, whose struggles with U.S. prosecutors have fueled calls for reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, wants the government to pay him $13 million for imprisoning him for the past three years. Read More Lenovo's Q1 profit grows 25% on PC, smartphone gains Lenovo's net profit grew 25% year-over-year in the first quarter as the Chinese company continued to make gains in the PC and smartphone markets. Read More WEBCAST: Silanis Technology Is your company ready for Electronic Signatures? Are you convinced of the benefits of e-signatures but unsure whether your organization is ready to take advantage of the technology? Are you trying to assess the true effort and cost involved in automating your processes with electronic signatures? Learn More Google+ rolls out 'Stories' for tricked out photo playback Google is hoping to lure users to spending more time on its social network with a new photo playback feature for Google+ called "Stories." Read More Despite source code leak, Android malware fetches top $5,000 price Despite a leak of its source code, an Android program aimed at compromising online bank accounts is still commanding $5,000 per copy, one of the highest prices seen for a type of malware, according to research from Symantec. Read More Public utility compromised after brute-force attack, DHS says A public utility in the U.S. was compromised after attackers took advantage of a weak password security system, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security team that studies cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. Read More Lawmakers to FCC: Stop mulling net neutrality reclassification Republican legislators don't want the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to think about reclassifying broadband as a utility -- a route the regulator could take in order to reinstate net neutrality rules. Read More DuckDuckGo redesigns search to include auto-suggest, local results DuckDuckGo, the privacy-themed search engine, has received a major redesign with enhanced search tools that could usher in a wave of new users. Read More Richi Jennings: Surface Pro 3: 3rd time's a charm for Microsoft Microsoft seems to be proving the old adage: Wait for version 3.0. The bleeding-edge versions before iteration #3 usually seem too compromised for general use, but Redmond kept plugging at it, to get it right the third time. It happened with Windows, with Office, with IE, and now it seems with Surface. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers seem to surprise themselves with Surface love. Read More
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