No more Zune hardware devices, Microsoft (sort of) confirms

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	No more Zune hardware devices, Microsoft (sort of) confirms "The Zune is finally dead," various media outlets are reporting, on new information from Bloomberg that Microsoft will no longer create Zune hardware devices. If true, Microsoft's quest to unseat the iPod is over, as the company instead focuses on bolstering Windows Phone 7 in the face of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver - April 28, 2011 IT Roadmap Denver returns April 28 to the Colorado Convention Center! Through executive keynotes, ROI workshops, technical tutorials, strategy sessions, networking opportunities and a private IT expo, attendees will gain insights into the latest IT issues, trends, challenges and solutions from top IT analysts and practitioners. Register now to attend! In this Issue 4Chan founder Moot: 'Anonymity is authenticity,' Zuckerberg 'wrong' Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing IE9's final release is Monday. Will it make a difference? U.S. Antitrust will review Microsoft/Novell patent sale for 30 more days The cloud's Achilles' Heel is that it's uninsurable Microsoft study shows 80% savings by using the cloud Pwn2Own 2011: Hackers shame Safari and IE8 on day one Japanese earthquake as seen by YouTube Citizen journalism Tablets mean business! WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More 4Chan founder Moot: 'Anonymity is authenticity,' Zuckerberg 'wrong' 4chan's founder, Chris "moot" Poole, said Facebook's Zuckerberg is "fully wrong" and that "anonymity is authenticity." Read More Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing The first rule of using social networking as a marketing tool should be: Know when to do it and when not to do it. The aftermath of an unfathomable natural disaster should be Example No. 1 of when not to do it. Read More IE9's final release is Monday. Will it make a difference? Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer 9 will be officially released to the Web on Monday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas. The new browser touts a number of improvements over IE8 and previous generations, but will it be enough to rebuild IE market share lost to competitors from Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox? There are reasons to be skeptical. Read More WEBCAST: Adobe Turn Unrealistic Deadlines into Realistic Deadlines Adobe Acrobat X can help give your team the power to turn unrealistic deadlines into realistic deadlines.Join the Adobe Acrobat X software webinar and go from under pressure to overachieving. Learn More U.S. Antitrust will review Microsoft/Novell patent sale for 30 more days The sale of 882 Novell patents to a consortium organized by Microsoft will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division for at least another month, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Novell. Read More The cloud's Achilles' Heel is that it's uninsurable While companies like Microsoft were touting the growth and benefits of cloud computing at the recent Cloud Connect conference here in Silicon Valley, one speaker gave what he called his "wet blanket" presentation warning of a big hole in the cloud business model. Read More Microsoft study shows 80% savings by using the cloud Microsoft is trotting out an age-old tactic to try and sell you on its Azure public cloud computing platform: cost. Private clouds reduce costs over legacy data centers, but public clouds are up to 80% cheaper, according to a recent Microsoft-funded study on the matter. Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens Finding the Value in Unified Communications This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More Pwn2Own 2011: Hackers shame Safari and IE8 on day one The big surprise is not that IE8 or Safari were shamed, it's that no one tried to topple Chrome and Google's offer to pay an additional $20,000 to the first hacker to crack that browser. Read More Japanese earthquake as seen by YouTube Citizen journalism YouTube's citizen journalism page, Citizentube, is "covering" this story, in that it has created a site that links to all the YouTube videos posted of the quake (at least those videos tagged with appropriate keywords). Read More Tablets mean business! iPad2 will peak the tablet rush, but are there convertible tablets out there that do more? Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Google Chrome 10 Google has released the stable version of Chrome 10 and users are now being automatically updated. As always, Chrome's new features focus on security, speed and simplicity, with greater JavaScript performance, sandboxing technology for Adobe Flash, password encryption and an easier-to-use settings interface. Here's a look at the new features. MOST-READ STORIES iPad 2: Don't take it apart, or risk cracked glass Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing Happy Pi Day: More than 3.14... pictures of cool Pi creations If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... Japanese earthquake as seen by YouTube citizen journalism IE9's final release is Monday. Will it make a difference? What reviewers are saying about iPad 2 5 signs that your techies are being poached GNOME creator respects propriety software, can't wait for iPad 2 Should Cisco sell?
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