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Why Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy is puzzling the pundits

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Why Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy is puzzling the pundits
Microsoft's mobile chief Andy Lees turned a few heads this week by declaring that "we view a tablet as a sort of PC." Lees went on to say that a tablet should do "all of the things you would expect from a PC."  Pundits are already questioning Microsoft's logic, and with good reason. Read More


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Guide to Workforce Continuity Through Virtualization
Examine this Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Preparedness Checklist to see how your organization measures up in planning, testing and review. Learn more.

Would analytics calm social network privacy fears?
With the unveiling of its Google+ social network, Google is again bringing to the spotlight the recurring question of whether social network privacy settings are too complex, confusing many users and causing them to share posts with more people than intended. Read More

Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products
When we asked IT pros about their favorite enterprise tech products, their picks included all kinds of hardware and software. The common thread? Gear that saves time or money, increases productivity or tightens security. Read More

IBM bequeaths Symphony code to Apache
Hoping to further sharpen OpenOffice's competitive viability against Microsoft Office, IBM is donating the code of its Symphony open source office suite to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation. Read More


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The Phone Hacking Scandal: The Answer is in Infrastructure
News regarding the hacking of handsets in the UK is everywhere, and there are simple countermeasures that users can take to prevent problems in this area. The real answer, though, is in needed changes to infrastructure, and questions abound as to why so many vulnerabilities exist in the first place. Read More

US hails progress with Russia on cybersecurity cooperation
Russia and the U.S. are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries' relationship, according to the top cybersecurity adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama. Read More

Building the Borg: US intelligence agency wants to know how your overtaxed brain works
This one sounds like it comes right out of a science-fiction writer's nightmare. A US intelligence agency wants to develop applications based on the way the human brain makes sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information. Read More


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F5 rolls out new file virtualization appliances
F5 Networks this week announced new file virtualization appliances for small and mid-sized businesses. Like F5's other appliances, the ARX1500 and ARX2500 are aimed at virtualizing, managing and migrating data for businesses of all sizes who are suffering from growing amounts of file data. Read More

U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing
In an effort to bring real-time applications to customers -- and boost their bottom lines -- banks are changing our their core systems, many for the first time in a decade. Read More

Cloud CIO: Are You Making Your Data Centers Cloud-Friendly?
Data center construction is growing ever more complex and expensive as data center facilities expand to meet enterprises' seemingly limitless computing needs. Read More



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