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	Amazon's Firefly will flicker on iOS, Android Amazon has good reasons to turn Firefly loose on iOS and Android even though the technology is one of the selling points for its own Fire phone. Read More   WHITE PAPER: AVI-SPL The State of Video Conferencing Security Video conferencing equipment, found in almost every boardroom around the world, may be opening up companies to serious security breaches. This paper explains how government entities can protect themselves. Read Now In this Issue Could robots walk on stage at Google I/O? Microsoft wants MacBook Air owners to trade up to a Surface Pro by trading in Microsoft to double OneDrive free space, slash extra storage prices up to 73% Many comments on new H-1B rule, but few are 'unique' Despite patching efforts, 300K servers are still vulnerable to Heartbleed Oracle buying Micros Systems for $5.3 billion Intel's most powerful chip ever packs emerging technologies ISC: Cray makes Lustre palatable for storage administrators Kenneth van Wyk: If you want developers to give a hoot about security, take a lesson from the squirrels Government control is the big sticking point at ICANN meeting Panasonic's 5-inch 'handheld tablet' redefines tough Ad network compromise leads to rogue page redirects on Reuters site Jonny Evans: 7 iOS 7 tricks you probably should know JR Raphael: Broken promises: Verizon, Google, and the Chromebook data debacle Darlene Storm: Can sharing your open Wi-Fi network with strangers promote privacy and security? Richi Jennings: Surface Pro 3 is magical and breakable, say reviews WHITE PAPER: SAS How Dell Optimizes Marketing Decision Making Using fictional data, two analysts from Dell's corporate marketing group explained how data and marketing analytics helped them examine the question: "Was the campaign successful?" in depth. Download this whitepaper to learn more. Read Now Could robots walk on stage at Google I/O? Will Google CEO Larry Page walk out with a 330-pound robot when he takes the stage this week at Google I/O, the company's developer conference? With the company's purchase of eight robotics companies, it could happen. Read More   Microsoft wants MacBook Air owners to trade up to a Surface Pro by trading in Microsoft has launched a buy-back program to try to get MacBook Air owners to part with their notebooks and replace them with new Surface Pro 3 devices. Read More   Microsoft to double OneDrive free space, slash extra storage prices up to 73% Microsoft plans to double OneDrive's free storage space for consumers to 15GB from its previous allowance of 7GB. Read More   Many comments on new H-1B rule, but few are 'unique' Splunk, best known for creating systems that analyze machine-generated data, has created a tool for analyzing comments filed at Regulation.gov. Read More   Despite patching efforts, 300K servers are still vulnerable to Heartbleed Despite a great start, the rate of patching OpenSSL servers against the critical Heartbleed vulnerability has slowed down to almost a halt. Around 300,000 servers remain vulnerable and many of them are unlikely to get patched anytime soon. Read More   Oracle buying Micros Systems for $5.3 billion Oracle is buying hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, in a deal that will be its largest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Read More   Intel's most powerful chip ever packs emerging technologies Intel hopes to take hardware performance to the next level with its latest Xeon Phi supercomputing chip, which packs an array of new hardware technologies that could ultimately find their way to laptops and desktops. Read More   ISC: Cray makes Lustre palatable for storage administrators Supercomputer vendor Cray is trying to make the Lustre file system easier to work with, allowing users to copy material from the file system into a multilayered storage archiving system. Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation   Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage Read why with a FLASH 1st strategy, customers don't need to compromise between performance and TCO. Learn More Kenneth van Wyk: If you want developers to give a hoot about security, take a lesson from the squirrels The problem with all too many software developers, from a security professional's point of view, is they lack a healthy sense of mistrust. Read More   Government control is the big sticking point at ICANN meeting What level of control governments should exert over the Internet emerged early in ICANN's meeting this week as a primary sticking point, with the representative from France advocating for more state control and the U.K. arguing for less. Read More   Panasonic's 5-inch 'handheld tablet' redefines tough They aren't exactly smartphones, tablets or even phablets, but Panasonic's new Toughpad line of 'handheld tablets' redefine tough for mobile devices and include the ability to warm themselves in extreme cold with a built-in heater. Read More   Ad network compromise leads to rogue page redirects on Reuters site Users who accessed some stories on the Reuters website Sunday were redirected to a message from hackers criticizing the news agency's coverage of Syria. Read More   Jonny Evans: 7 iOS 7 tricks you probably should know While we wait for Foxconn's new army of 100,000 workers to manufacture the new iPhones, iPads and wearable devices we expect to see from Apple this summer, I've assembled a short list of iOS 7 tricks most people probably should know. Read More   JR Raphael: Broken promises: Verizon, Google, and the Chromebook data debacle When a company promises two years of free mobile data service with a device, you expect them to deliver. So what happens when a promise suddenly evaporates after you've purchased a product? Read More   Darlene Storm: Can sharing your open Wi-Fi network with strangers promote privacy and security? In the continuing saga of the Open Wireless Movement, the EFF will release firmware at HOPE X in order to help people share a little slice of bandwidth on their home Wi-Fi network without sacrificing privacy or security; freely sharing open Wi-Fi will supposedly put people at no legal risk since an IP is not a person. While it sounds like a happy world to live in – free Wi-Fi everywhere – how many legal battles will have to be fought and won before open wireless networks are so ubiquitous that it's no longer "reasonable" for law enforcement to automatically investigate an IP address captured during a crime? Read More   Richi Jennings: Surface Pro 3 is magical and breakable, say reviews Careful with that spudger, Eugene. The Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Surface Pro 3 is here, and reviewers are falling over themselves to look at in in-depth (and inside it). Is it the usual 3rd-times-a-charm act for Redmond? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers give Surface another chance. Read More
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