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	U.S.P.S. looks to create an 'Internet of Postal Things,' with sensors on mail and your mail carrier The Internet has so far delivered mostly bad news to the U.S. Postal Service, but the agency now hopes an emerging Web application -- the Internet of Things -- can help it improve efficiency. 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 In this Issue Google tests domain registration service Twitter to buy mobile ad company TapCommerce California removes ban on alternative currencies Evan Schuman: Supreme Court on obvious patents: Common sense isn't so horrible Amazon's Firefly will flicker on iOS, Android Why you shouldn't buy the Amazon Fire phone QuickPoll: Is Amazon's new Fire smartphone a hit or miss? Bitcoin auction proceeds despite U.S. Marshals gaffe Hacker mines $620K in cryptocurrency under victims' noses WHITE PAPER: HGST Accelerating Oracle with Preferred Reads This article shows how the Virident | HGST FlashMAX II card can be used to gain read Flash performance in an ASM cluster, while keeping a copy of the data in the existin SAN storage array. View Now>> Google tests domain registration service If you fancy yourself as a .guru or any other newfangled Internet address, Google wants you to try out its new domain name registration service. Read More Twitter to buy mobile ad company TapCommerce Twitter said it has agreed to acquire TapCommerce a mobile advertising company focused on re-engaging people who have downloaded advertisers' apps. Read More California removes ban on alternative currencies A new California law removes a ban on using currencies other than the U.S. dollar, which is intended to accommodate the growing use of alternative payment methods such as bitcoin. Read More Evan Schuman: Supreme Court on obvious patents: Common sense isn't so horrible Unanimous decision won't shut down patent trolls, but it will curb worst abuses. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Integrated Cross-Enterprise Performance Management Everyone uses e-commerce websites, but did you know that means accessing mainframe computers? This infographic shows how the end-to-end visibility offered by a single integrated set of solutions for cross-enterprise performance management is the best way to pinpoint the root cause of a performance issue. Learn more 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 Why you shouldn't buy the Amazon Fire phone Amazon and its Fire phone are capable of the most comprehensive and aggressive personal data harvesting ever offered in any product. The company needs to be far more transparent about what the phone actually does, and how Amazon protects all this data. Read More QuickPoll: Is Amazon's new Fire smartphone a hit or miss? Amazon has finally unveiled its first smartphone, the Amazon Fire, with a number of new and interesting features, like Dynamic Perspective and the Firefly button. Do you think Amazon's smartphone will be a hit or a miss? 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 Hacker mines $620K in cryptocurrency under victims' noses A German hacker generated more than $620,000 in cryptocurrency after hijacking an unknown number of network storage devices and turning them into digital slaves to mine Dogecoin, researchers said. Read More
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