HP plans PC spinoff, $10 billion Autonomy buy

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	HP plans PC spinoff, $10 billion Autonomy buy Hewlett-Packard is reportedly set to announce that it will spin off its PC business and purchase analytics software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion -- moves that will allow it to focus on the higher-margin enterprise business revolving around software, services and servers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP IT Migrates to an all HP network It's no surprise when a high-tech company uses its own products. However, the story of how HP recently migrated its own network to HP Networking equipment has unique aspects that make it relevant to all enterprises in any industry or market segment. Read now In this Issue Tovalds: "Virtualization is evil" IBM brings brain power to experimental chips Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say Amazon boosts Web Services security for government agencies Cisco counterfeiter gets 30-months in jail NSTIC director: 'We're trying to get rid of passwords' Linux Foundation releases specification to ease licensing headaches Android apps double Web use 11 hard truths about HTML5 Facebook streamlines UI of developer console RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remote Support for PCs, Macs, Tablets and Smartphones Provide instant, on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue. Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs and smartphones anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem Tovalds: "Virtualization is evil" Ask the world's most famous kernel developer what he thinks of the virtualization wars going on the Linux community between KVM and Xen and you'll hear a condemnation (of a sort) of them both. "I'm not a virtualization kind of guy. I think virtualization is evil," Linus Torvalds told the crowd at LinuxCon on Wednesday during his keynote interview session with Greg Kroah-Hartman. Read More IBM brings brain power to experimental chips IBM has created prototype chips that could mimic brain-like functionality, which the company said is an "unprecedented" step forward in creating intelligent computers that collect, process and understand data quickly. Read More Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Data Deduplication for Dummies What does data deduplication really mean? This 2nd edition of the book "Data Deduplication for Dummies" takes an in-depth look of the advantages of data deduplication. Learn exactly how data deduplication works, the pros and cons of various approaches, determining the right data deduplication ratio and answers to the most common dedupe questions. Read More Amazon boosts Web Services security for government agencies Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services in an effort to attract more government agencies as customers. Read More Cisco counterfeiter gets 30-months in jail The Department of Justice today said Donald Cone of Frederick, Md., was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a sophisticated conspiracy to import and sell counterfeit Cisco network equipment. Read More NSTIC director: 'We're trying to get rid of passwords' The federal government's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) program is trying to identify more secure alternatives to simple passwords that the government as well as anyone else might use in authenticating to online applications. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! Linux Foundation releases specification to ease licensing headaches The Linux Foundation and FOSSBazzaar on Wednesday released a new specification to ease the pain of license compliance for open source software. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is a data exchange specification that tracks license information in a standardized way and allows it to travel across the software supply chain. Read More Android apps double Web use The question of whether Android users really value mobile applications has been answered in the affirmative, according to a new Nielsen report. Read More 11 hard truths about HTML5 HTML5 heralds some nifty new features and the potential for sparking a Web programming paradigm shift, and as everyone who has read the tech press knows, there is nothing like HTML5 for fixing the Internet. Sprinkle some HTML5 into your code, and your websites will be faster and fancier -- it'll make your teeth white, too. But the reality of what HTML5 can do for those seeking native-app performance on the Web falls short of the hype. Read More Facebook streamlines UI of developer console Facebook has revamped the interface of the console that its external developers use to manage their applications for the social networking site. Read More
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