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	Motorola Mobility is by far Google's biggest acquisition ever Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility is far and away Google's biggest-ever purchase -- in fact, it's greater than Google's next 10 biggest acquisitions combined and only its third above a billion dollars. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now In this Issue Tips and tricks for protecting Android devices US and UK zombies demand top dollar Driver using two cell phones gets 12 month driving ban Google lashes out at patent trolls with Motorola buy Has Google Shot Android In The Foot? 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Big news today (as in 12.5B big) is that Google has bought Motorola Mobility Holdings, the company behind the popular Droid phones for 12.5 Billion dollars in cash. A good and quick result so soon after Motorola split itself in two just a short time ago. The deal was apparently attractive to Google on two fronts. Read More Memo to Microsoft: Don't Panic over Motorola Google made a defensive move against Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft should not have a knee-jerk response over this. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Case study: Getting started with desktop virtualization The promise of virtualized desktops is widely recognized and desktop virtualization is topping most IT departments' priority lists. But while the "why" of desktop virtualization is clear, it's the "how" that is most challenging. Follow one customer's journey to a more agile and secure business environment. Learn 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 Smartphones and corporate websites, a required match If I remember correctly, not long after the original Apple iPhone went on sale The New York Times ran a story indicating surprise that a relatively large number of poorer people were buying the expensive phone. After some pondering, the Times concluded that the cost of the iPhone was actually small when compared to a personal computer and Internet service. The iPhone was a way that people who could not otherwise afford to be on the Internet could get reliable, reasonable speed, access for not much more per month than they were already paying for their current cellphones. Read More Clemson IT team embraces call to be entrepreneurial Five years ago Clemson University named James Bottum chief information officer and gave him the mandate to overhaul the school's IT infrastructure and build out a high performance computing environment. The goal: catapult the school into a leading research university and help attract faculty and students. Read More Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services Amag Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., has almost eliminated its internal server network, and couldn't be happier about it. That's because the company, with about 240 employees, is now largely riding on cloud services. Read More
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