HP's $199 Windows notebook vs. Chromebooks

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	Richi Jennings: HP's $199 Windows notebook vs. Chromebooks: FIGHT! Microsoft and HP: Ripping off the head of Chrome OS? HP (NYSE:HPQ) seems almost ready to launch its low-cost Windows laptop. Vanguard of the next phase in Microsoft's battle against the ever-growing threat of the Google Chromebook advance, the HP Stream 14 has fairly decent specs at a dirt-cheap price. We were expecting some sub-$250 units, but aggressive pricing like this is bound to make the market pay attention. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers watch the movie, but forget the popcorn. Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation   Countering Threats By Modeling "Normal" Website Behavior Check out this informative technology dossier to explore the ins and outs of using big data analysis and web-user profiling to protect your company against cyber threats. Read Now In this Issue Darlene Storm: Cracking smart house devices & pwning thousands of PCs via VNC remote access JR Raphael: Hands on: The ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook could be the one Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft's Satya Nadella dump Windows Phone and the Xbox? Sharky: A double negative really ain't no positive thing WHITE PAPER: CDW Trends Shaping Software Management: 2014 Most IT executives recognize the relationship between mobile computing and worker productivity, and have long issued notebook computers and other mobile devices to road warriors and employees who work extended hours. In cases where they have no mobile device policy, users often take matters into their own hands. View Now Darlene Storm: Cracking smart house devices & pwning thousands of PCs via VNC remote access   Pen testers cracked the security of every IoT device within a smart house. Other researchers scanned the Internet and grabbed 30,000 screenshots in an hour of PCs running VNC without a password. Moral of the story? Change default usernames and use a strong password. Read More   JR Raphael: Hands on: The ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook could be the one Lenovo's ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook makes a fantastic first impression. Could this laptop-tablet combo be the midrange Chromebook we've all been waiting for? Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   Bridge the Gap between Network Ops and the Service Desk Businesses can't afford to let siloed approaches to incident management delay resolution and undermine IT productivity. BMC Intelligent Service Resolution bridges the gap between the service desk and network operations, and provides a unified, business-centric view across technologies, to help you resolve the right issues more quickly than ever. Learn More Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft's Satya Nadella dump Windows Phone and the Xbox? If Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is true to his logic, one day he'll dump both Windows Phone and the Xbox -- and of course, the Suface. But is he willing to follow that logic, or instead keep Microsoft's worst-performing divisions? Read More   Sharky: A double negative really ain't no positive thing   This pilot fish has a batch of Windows 7 laptops to configure so that their users will be required to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in. But once he finds where to make the change, he's confused. Read More
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