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	Microsoft reveals Office 365 roadmap, offers opt-in previews Microsoft has delivered on a promise made earlier this year to provide a roadmap to future Office 365 enhancements and additions, something both current and potential customers have been clamoring for. Read More   WHITE PAPER: AVI-SPL 3 Best Practices to Help Overcome BYOD Challenges An increasing number of white-collar workers in the United States use a mobile device for work. This new Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) environment presents challenges for IT managers and business leaders. This paper discusses how IT managers can address those challenges, as well as best practices for ensuring security and productivity. 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Live event: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 1 PM ET / 12 PM CT / 10 AM PT What if you could reduce your storage costs by half? Attend this webcast to hear how you can maximize the economics of your data center by modifying your storage footprint and power usage using Flash Storage, and to learn how IBM is accelerating storage efficiency. Register Now 8 technologies that are on the way out -- and one that we'll never be rid of In the blink of an eye, a technology that's on top today can be made obsolete by the next big thing. Six futurists predict which of today's common technologies are headed for the scrap heap, and what will replace them. Read More   Android 4.4.4 fixes OpenSSL connection hijacking flaw   Less than three weeks after pushing Android 4.4.3 to users of its Nexus devices, Google released a new version of the OS that incorporates a patch for a serious vulnerability identified in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. Read More   NASA to launch asteroid-grabbing spacecraft in 2019   NASA expects expects to launch a robotic spacecraft in 2019 to direct an asteroid into an orbit around the moon. Read More   Judge not sold on $324M settlement in Silicon Valley tech worker case A proposed US$324.5 million settlement of claims that Silicon Valley companies including Google and Apple suppressed worker wages by agreeing not to hire each others' employees may not be high enough, a judge signaled on Thursday. Read More   You can take home a Surface Pro 3 on Friday -- if it's a Core i5 Microsoft's highly anticipated Surface Pro 3 will become available in stores in the U.S. and Canada starting Friday, but users may have to wait two months to buy Core i3 and i7 models. Read More   House approves effort to limit NSA searches of US data The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to limit the National Security Agency's ability to search U.S. records, after a similar provision was stripped out of a bill intended to rein in the agency. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds Champagne SIEM on a Beer Budget The SolarWinds Log & Event Manager is an excellent option for all sizes of organizations wanting to increase the security of their networks by keeping an eye on their security-related log data without breaking the bank. Learn More Warning issued over plain text passwords in Super Micro motherboards Tens of thousands of servers have a hard-coded, plain-text password that could yield remote access to a management interface for a server, according to a security researcher. Read More   Oracle now the second-largest SaaS vendor, sees Q4 profits slip Oracle is now the industry's second-largest SaaS vendor after Salesforce.com, but it made that announcement as fourth-quarter profits slipped slightly and on-premises software license sales ended its fiscal year flat. Read More   USENIX: Unstable code can lead to security vulnerabilities As if tracking down bugs in a complex application isn't hard enough, programmers now must worry about a newly emerging trap, one in which a program compiler simply eliminates chunks of code it doesn't understand, often without alerting the programmer of the missing functionality. Read More   Bitcoin auction proceeds despite U.S. Marshals gaffe   The U.S. Marshals Service is going ahead with an auction of US$18 million in bitcoins even though it inadvertently leaked the identities of potential bidders. Read More   Chinese site that sold signal-jammers could pay record $34.9M FCC fine A Chinese electronics vendor accused of selling signal jammers to U.S. consumers could end up leading the market in one dubious measure: the largest fine ever imposed by the Federal Communications Commission. Read More   Dell offers software updates for improved mini PC usability The first software updates to improve functionality, including enterprise use, are out from Dell for its thumb-size PC, the Wyse Cloud Connect. Read More   Richi Jennings: Oracle in trouble? End-of-year results show Q4 loss, as stock dives 9% Larry puts on a brave face. Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) stock dropped like a stone after the markets closed yesterday. Results show the company actually losing money last quarter. Why? Mumble-mumble, something to do with the Venezuelan bolívar, mumble-mumble. From a median day price of $42.73, shares dived to a low of $38.96, before slowly recovering some ground. At the time of writing, the price is again moving south of $39.90. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers believe the real reason is the ever-onward march to the cloud. Read More
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