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	Why IT needs to drive the risk conversation The current system of risk management at most organizations is designed to frustrate everyone. Here are seven ways to change the dialogue. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! In this Issue An H-1B cap hike would mean a grim future for workers Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B How Tom Wheeler's FCC plan will wreck your Internet Firefox risks irrelevance as mobile browsing booms Apple and Google agree to drop all patent suits Cisco CEO tells Obama that NSA spying hits tech sales AT&T confirms plans to buy DirecTV Microsoft Azure cloud set to add SAP apps Healthcare CIO Edward Marx: IT ROI is measured in lives saved Jonny Evans: Samsung beats Apple in hype with its Heathrow claims Richi Jennings: Apple and Google give peace a chance. : 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 An H-1B cap hike would mean a grim future for workers   If Congress approves comprehensive immigration reform, it will likely more than double the cap on H-1B visas. What happens then sounds dystopian for workers. Read More   Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. Read More   How Tom Wheeler's FCC plan will wreck your Internet   FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal is brilliant because it takes the U.S. as far away from net neutrality as possible by presenting the killing of net neutrality and making it sound like the opposite. Read More   Firefox risks irrelevance as mobile browsing booms Mozilla's Firefox is in danger of becoming irrelevant as more browsing originates on smartphones and tablets, statistics from Net Applications show. Read More   Apple and Google agree to drop all patent suits Two giants of the mobile phone industry, Apple and Google, have agreed to drop all current patent infringement lawsuits between them, they said Friday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Polycom Remote Collaboration Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Download this survey to learn what 5,000 business professionals around the world say are their biggest collaboration challenges--and discover the strategies they deploy to overcome them. Learn more >> Cisco CEO tells Obama that NSA spying hits tech sales   Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as a result of reports of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency. Read More   AT&T confirms plans to buy DirecTV AT&T plans to acquire DirecTV for about $50 billion, it announced Sunday, laying to rest days of reports based on anonymous sources that such a deal was in the offing. Read More   Microsoft Azure cloud set to add SAP apps Microsoft and SAP's long-standing partnership is being strengthened with the pending certification of SAP's ERP and other software for deployment on the Azure cloud infrastructure service. Read More   Healthcare CIO Edward Marx: IT ROI is measured in lives saved Edward Marx, senior vice president and CIO at Texas Health Resources in Arlington, is using social media to connect with the organization's local community and implementing BI tools to deliver advanced clinical care. Read More   Jonny Evans: Samsung beats Apple in hype with its Heathrow claims When it comes to reality distortion it is Samsung, not Apple, that must be bought down to Earth. Read More   Richi Jennings: Apple and Google give peace a chance. Ended, the patent war has. Hell has frozen over: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) have finally declared a truce in their long-standing patent war. Now joining forces on a quest to fight the evil trolls of Patent Pending, the two companies will likely continue to fight the good fight in patent courts for years to come. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are exhausted after the battle. Read More
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