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	As BlackBerry 10 phones near, hopes send RIM stock rising Speculation, rumors, and hopes about the upcoming BlackBerry 10 launch next week have sent Research in Motion's (RIMM - Nasdaq) stock price soaring. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World Technical Seminar SDN, Openflow and Network Virtualization event comes to NYC Attend and learn how SDN works, its potential in the enterprise, and why leading, bellwether organizations are leveraging it for data center and large-scale networking efficiency- Learn more and register for this free event. February 12, 2013 – Grand Hyatt, NYC Click to continue In this Issue Experts prod Oracle to fix broken Java security Tech salaries jump 5.3%, bonuses flat AT&T spectrum grab: buying Alltel for $780 million NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V Is Microsoft Dead Man Walking? iPhone activations on Verizon increased by 47% Bugged guesthouse: Eric Schmidt's daughter reveals North Korea trip details Love Ubuntu, but looking for something faster? Read on! Want to text strangers on the road? Now you can Ashton Kutcher, Will.I.Am, and Fred Armisen all to make appearances at Macworld/iWorld expo Microsoft Office Web Apps v. Google Docs WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP 3PAR Storage: Optimizing I/O Service Levels According to ESG, making solid-state usable is "job number one." This report explores how 3PAR Storage optimizes the SSD tier with multiple, smaller-capacity that can be characterized as a clustered SSD implementation. Learn how this architecture spreads SSD benefits across more data to improve service level and I/O costs. Learn more. Experts prod Oracle to fix broken Java security Beset by some very public vulnerabilities in Java, and apparently unable to properly patch those bugs, Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, experts said. Read More Tech salaries jump 5.3%, bonuses flat Average salaries for tech pros climbed 5.3% to $85,619 last year, up from $81,327 in 2011. It's the largest salary jump in more than a decade, according to career site Dice. Read More AT&T spectrum grab: buying Alltel for $780 million AT&T has agreed to buy Alltel's U.S. wireless operations, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and about 585,000 subscribers, for $780 million in cash. Technically, AT&T is buying the operation from the lesser known Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (ATNI). Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments. Read More Is Microsoft Dead Man Walking? An article by Adam Hartung in Forbes today paints a pretty bleak picture for Microsoft. Basically Hartung looks at the past quarter and holiday season to conclude that Windows 8 has been a dismal failure, the Microsoft Surface accounted for only something like 5% of tablet sales and PC sales continue to decline. Read More iPhone activations on Verizon increased by 47% Verizon released their Q4 2012 earnings today, and as we already knew, the carrier announced that they activated 9.8 million smartphones in the quarter gone by. But what we didn't know, until now, was what percentage of that figure were iPhone activations. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Extend the Life of Your Storage Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. Read Now! Bugged guesthouse: Eric Schmidt's daughter reveals North Korea trip details In North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the only people with access to the Internet are those with "special authorization." Very few details have been revealed about what happened during Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's recent visit to North Korea . . . other than he urged DPRK to "embrace" open access to the Internet. Read More Love Ubuntu, but looking for something faster? Read on! Over on DistroWatch's popularity ranking list of Linux Distro's, you'll find the top 10 dominated by familiar names like "Mint," "Ubuntu," and "Fedora." A little ways down you stumble across such names as "Pear," "Slax," and "Puppy." Farther down still, nestled somewhere between "CrunchBang" and "Chakra" (seriously...we have some awesome project names in the Linux world), you'll find Lubuntu,... Read More Want to text strangers on the road? Now you can A new service alled CurbTXT allows strangers to contact each other to inform them of parking or general car problems. From the company's website: Read More Ashton Kutcher, Will.I.Am, and Fred Armisen all to make appearances at Macworld/iWorld expo Read More Microsoft Office Web Apps v. Google Docs 5 reasons why Google Docs is better/5 reasons why Web Apps is better Read More
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