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	Barnes & Noble blows the lid off Microsoft's Android patent squeeze Nook maker says Microsoft's "trivial" and "invalid" patents stifle open source innovation. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Customer Lifetime Value for IT With technology underpinning much of the customer experience, IT and marketing must adopt new technologies to innovate and grow revenues. Watch the video to learn how IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics enables marketers while reducing the burden on IT. View Now In this Issue Windows comes to the mainframe mountain Microsoft to preview Windows 8 Embedded in first quarter 2012 AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal: 'The devil is in the details' Microsoft to move to license-by-core for SQL Server 2012 Tibco's Spotfire ties in-memory analytics to SharePoint, Tibbr social network Microsoft has no plans to fix months old Office 2010/WP7 sync bug Microsoft and Duke partner to find media fakery Windows set to arrive on IBM mainframes Regulators sniffing around mobile privacy issues IBM targets managed security service at iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry smartphones Symantec's cloud-based security service supports Microsoft Lync WHITE PAPER: BMC One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case for the Custom Cloud When it comes to cloud services, "semi-custom" goes a long way. "The Case for the Custom Cloud," shows you how users can configure their own customized cloud services from choices you dictate – and how you can deliver the resulting cloud services quickly and affordably. Read More! Windows comes to the mainframe mountain A CA exec once told me if a mainframe crashes three times in year, that is an unreliable computer. If your PC crashes three times in one day, it's been a good day. Ok, so this was in the days of Windows 3.1, but the joke always stuck with me. One thing that hasn't changed is mainframe reliability. Read More Microsoft to preview Windows 8 Embedded in first quarter 2012 Microsoft will start allowing developers to preview Windows 8 Embedded in the first quarter of next year, with plans to eventually release its embedded computing products in the quarters following the Windows 8 desktop version launch. Read More AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal: 'The devil is in the details' The partnership AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft announced last week to sell each other's "tier 2" display ad inventory could yield great benefits, but they need to pull off a complex integration of business and technology to make it work. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco WAAS Optimizes Application Delivery from the Cloud Delivering applications from cloud to remote sites can affect application performance, availability, and security. Deploying Cisco WAAS, organizations can achieve cost savings promised by the cloud architectures while overcoming IT challenges and meeting data-compliance goals. Learn More Microsoft to move to license-by-core for SQL Server 2012 Hmmm…think back to 2005, Microsoft is marketing its plans to release a new version of Microsoft SQL Server (2005) –remember how Microsoft executives were swearing that "unlike Oracle", they would never count the number of cores, only the number of physical processors? Well, Oracle changed its licensing model in 2008 and in 2012 so will Microsoft. But in reverse – Oracle got a bit looser and Microsoft will be getting tighter. Read More Tibco's Spotfire ties in-memory analytics to SharePoint, Tibbr social network Tibco is giving its Spotfire BI (business intelligence) and visualization tool an injection of social collaboration through integrations with Microsoft SharePoint and its own Tibbr enterprise social networking product, the company announced Monday. Read More Microsoft has no plans to fix months old Office 2010/WP7 sync bug Windows Phone 7 won't sync with the 64-bit version of Office 2010. And Microsoft has no plans to fix that, the company says. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Systems Driving Collaboration and Business Value with Video Key stakeholders and knowledge experts responsible for innovation and flawless business execution are often separated by time zones and culture – and may be partners or customers. The way to reduce those barriers is to bring real-time, face-to-face collaboration to your organization. View Now! Microsoft and Duke partner to find media fakery Adobe Photoshop is as much a godsend for graphic artists as unattractive celebrities, providing creative artists with a Reality Distortion Field comparable to the one Steve Jobs used to generate. While that's great for making a plain jane celeb look attractive (for them, anyway), Photoshop also means an Internet full of fakes, some of which can be devastating to the people involved. Read More Windows set to arrive on IBM mainframes IBM mainframes are on the verge of managing Windows applications, crossing one of the last big system divides in data centers. Read More Regulators sniffing around mobile privacy issues Regulators are starting to investigate what kind of oversight is in place to make sure that mobile applications don't encroach on user privacy rights, a lawyer in Microsoft's Windows Phone segment said on Monday. Read More IBM targets managed security service at iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry smartphones IBM is offering a cloud-based managed service for mobile devices that will let IT managers exert management and security controls over devices based on Apple iOS, Google Android, the RIM BlackBerry, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. Read More Symantec's cloud-based security service supports Microsoft Lync Symantec today widened its cloud-based security service to include Lync, Microsoft's latest instant-messaging client, so that enterprises using Lync can do anti-malware filtering and exert security controls for blocking inappropriate content along with basic data-loss prevention. Read More
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