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	Richi Jennings: Mood experiment helps Facebook innovate a new way to creep-out users Zuck pegs our creep-out meters. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) exceeding expectations once again -- has managed the impossible -- discovering how to creep-out: clowns, possessed toys, and that person you know that never blinks -- all at the same time. How? The social media company recently allowed a team of psychology researchers to validate a theory that happy and sad emotions can spread like a contagion on social networks. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have had enough social media to last a lifetime. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud storage is strategically inevitable Economic pressures continue to drive much of the IT agenda while, at the same time, executives are demanding that IT incorporate new and innovative technologies to drive growth and innovation. Social, mobile and big data analytics capabilities are reshaping interactions between customers, employees, vendors and business partners View Now In this Issue Preston Gralla: The new Google Docs and Apps: Still second banana to Microsoft Office Michael Horowitz: Comcast XFINITY WiFi: Just say no Jonny Evans: Apple shuts its Aperture Preston Gralla: Windows Phone share sinks in U.S. and China. Can anything save this OS? Sharky: How the other half lives (really, about the same) WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Managing BitLocker With SafeGuard Enterprise This whitepaper explains how Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise secures your data wherever it's stored; and how it allows you to support diverse platforms and encryption products including BitLocker. Learn More Preston Gralla: The new Google Docs and Apps: Still second banana to Microsoft Office Google has beefed up the consumer and business versions of Google Docs and Apps, but it's too little, too late. Microsoft Office still reigns as the premier office suite, and will for the forseeable future. Here's why. Read More Michael Horowitz: Comcast XFINITY WiFi: Just say no By the end of 2014, Comcast hopes to have enabled 8 million quasi-public XFINITY WiFi hotspots. Many hotspots will run off the home routers of Comcast customers (look for a network called xfinitywifi). Here I offer a very long list of security issues with XFINITY WiFi. It is far more dangerous than people are aware of. Read More WHITE PAPER: AVI-SPL Video Collaboration: 4 Mistakes Companies Make This Cisco-sponsored whitepaper from AVI-SPL shares key insights from Cisco's and AVI-SPL's teams of video collaboration integration experts gained through hundreds of deployments in mid-market companies. Read Now Jonny Evans: Apple shuts its Aperture Apple's exposure of its plan to shutter Aperture and iPhoto development in favor of Photos for OS X has made some pro users snappy while others say they're happy. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows Phone share sinks in U.S. and China. Can anything save this OS? The latest figures show that Windows Phone share is sinking in the U.S. and China and stalling in Europe. Can anything save Microsoft's struggling smartphone operating system? Read More Sharky: How the other half lives (really, about the same) This IT exec pilot fish isn't usually on call for routine user issues. But one Saturday his company-issued phone rings anyway -- at home. Read More
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