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8 reasons why Windows 8 may not be ready for the desktop

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Looks like Apple paid off victim of ham-handed iPhone search
It would seem that the missing iPhone prototype wasn't "priceless," after all. Apple has apparently reached an out-of-court settlement to keep a San Francisco man from suing the company over what his attorney -- and virtually everyone else -- called an "outrageous" warrantless search of the man's home, car and computer last summer by two Apple employees accompanied by four city police officers. Read More

FBI: Cyberattacks grow as national security menace
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cyberattacks are starting to eclipse terrorism as a threat to the country, say top officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaking before an audience of security professionals here at the GovSec Conference today. Read More

OpenStack supporters downplay Citrix defection
Top coordinators of the OpenStack project shot back at Citrix for dropping its support for the open-source cloud development platform in favor of starting a separate open source project based on an Apache license. Read More

Instagram, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion highlight a busy day for Android news
Today was one of Those Days where a whole bunch of little news items popped up that related to Android and I didn't have time to write stories on all of them. So instead, for your benefit, I've decided to round them all up in one pithy blog post. Enjoy! Read More


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You're facing an IT audit, but you can't drop your normal responsibilities to prepare for it. You need to balance the audit requirements and your daily routine. In this Quest white paper, get five tips for handling auditors, and how to get them what they need while juggling your normal priorities. Read Now!

Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire
It's got to be a little embarrassing for a security company steeped in paying attention to details like opening and closing firewall ports and monitoring whether applications are behaving oddly to overlook an arguably major item like maintaining the company's domain name, but it happened to Check Point Software. Read More

IEEE says L-1 visa not intended for outsourcers
This week, the U.S. began accepting H-1B applications for the next fiscal year. But the real battle, for now, is over the L-1 visa and this fight just got bigger Read More

What is on a US Secret Service mainframe anyway?
Periodically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the US Secret Service issues what it calls Privacy Impact Statements on systems that collect personally identifiable information. Read More

Cisco shows Brazil the money
Cisco this week said it would invest close to $550 million in Brazil to expand its presence in the country and spur economic growth. Read More


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McAfee brings antivirus support to VMware's vShield
McAfee today announced a version of its antivirus software for VMware's vShield security technology. Read More

The Byte - Motorola antitrust, Samsung Tab delayed, Google deception, flying car
Europe's competition regulator has launched two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility.Samsung has delayed its Galaxy Tab 2 family until the end of April. Google is responsible for misleading and deceptive ads an Australian court ruled.Th Read More

Sprint offers hosted UC
Sprint has launched "Sprint Complete Collaboration," a hosted and fully managed unified communications (UC) bundle designed to meet the needs of midsize and large businesses. The new UC service is powered by Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) platform and is delivered over all-IP network. Read More

Windows 8: The Metro Start Screen Stops Me
Microsoft has been praising Windows 8 as a reimagining of Windows, but CIO.com's Shane O'Neill can't see past the shoddy design of the Metro start screen. Read More



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