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	"Red October": Agencies targeted in years-long cyberespionage operation The attackers used custom malware to target organizations from 39 countries, Kaspersky Lab says Read More WHITE PAPER: SuccessFactors Investing in HR Leads to Solid Business Results This complimentary whitepaper discusses the selection and performance of the SuccessFactors stock portfolio, and shows links between investing in execution and the resulting financial results. Read Now! In this Issue The big time travels of Google's Eric Schmidt INSIDER IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received RIM attracts 15,000 apps for BlackBerry 10 in two days Unlucky Las Vegas man besieged by lost-phone seekers Circle your calendars: Geekiest celebration days of 2013 NASA open-source initiative stalled by vendor protest, report says How Apple sets its prices MIT to probe its role in Aaron Swartz's suicide Watching CES 2013: Gaming Gear Products of the week 1.14.13 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. The big time travels of Google's Eric Schmidt Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has had quite an entourage, from President Obama to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Read More INSIDER IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received In today's culture, advice on nearly any topic - relationships, health, career - is just a mouse click, touchscreen tap or Siri query away. There's even a Web site called shouldidoit.com that promises to help you make decisions in your daily life. But while you can get some good insights on the many expert and general discussion forums that pop up on the Web, there's often a sense that something is missing from that experience. Call it the human touch. Read More RIM attracts 15,000 apps for BlackBerry 10 in two days It's starting to look like the BlackBerry store will be well stocked with apps when Research In Motion launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of this month. Read More Unlucky Las Vegas man besieged by lost-phone seekers Wayne Dobson has had all he can take of Sprint customers showing up at his Las Vegas home to demand that he hand over the cell phone of theirs that they are mistakenly certain Dobson possesses because a GPS-based tracking application has led them to his front door. Police corroborate Dobson's professions that he is no phone thief, in part because they, too, have mistakenly responded to the man's address.... Read More Circle your calendars: Geekiest celebration days of 2013 Plotting out vacations and other important items on your 2013 calendar? Here's a handful of crucial geek celebration days worth making sure you don't miss once the year starts to whiz by. Read More NASA open-source initiative stalled by vendor protest, report says A formal bid protest by a proprietary CMS provider over NASA's desired move to an open-source system has halted the process at least temporarily, according to a report from Federal Computer Week. Read More How Apple sets its prices Comparison-shopping for new electronics can be fun and addictive. With a bit of patience, some luck, and an eye for good deals, you can find everything from TV sets to hard drives at a significant discount. In fact, in our economy, discounts are one of the primary mechanisms that retailers use to compete against each other. Read More MIT to probe its role in Aaron Swartz's suicide The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting an inquiry into its role in the legal struggles that are believed to have lead to the suicide Friday of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Read More Watching CES 2013: Gaming Gear The team at IDG Enterprise (including Network World, Computerworld and CIO.com) and the IDG News Service created more than 50 videos last week at 2013 International CES, covering everything from news events, computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. In this post, we are highlighting videos focusing on gamers, whether it's a new keyboard that can light up to help your strategy,... Read More Products of the week 1.14.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Sophos and Dell Read More
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