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	Security pros cheer hints of hands-off updates in Windows Blue Microsoft's apparent plan to automatically update its own Windows Store apps in the next version of Windows 8 is drawing praise from security experts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Five Tips for Outsmarting the Information Age Adversary Today's attackers vigilantly wait for you to slip up before they strike your information systems and compromise your data. Learn five actions you can take to improve your information risk management and security strategy and stay one step ahead of the information age adversary. Read More In this Issue Amazon leaks evidence of first smaller, cheaper Windows 8 tablet Microsoft confirms zero-day vulnerability exploiting IE8 Google left heating, cooling system open to hackers As Windows 8 struggles, where is the leadership? 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Amazon leaks evidence of first smaller, cheaper Windows 8 tablet Details of what could be the first smaller Windows 8 tablet leaked Friday when Amazon briefly published a listing for an 8.1-in. Acer Iconia tablet. Read More Microsoft confirms zero-day vulnerability exploiting IE8 After reports of a zero-day vulnerability exploiting IE8 for watering hole attacks, Microsoft confirmed the flaw and released Security Advisory 2847140. Microsoft Security Response Center wrote, "Internet Explorer 6, 7, 9 and 10 are not affected by the vulnerability. Read More Google left heating, cooling system open to hackers Hackers could have turned up the heat in one of Google's offices in Sydney. Literally. Read More As Windows 8 struggles, where is the leadership? A spokesman can make or break a product. I truly believe SaaS is at least five years ahead of where it could have been thanks to the tireless evangelism of Marc Benioff. Guy Kawasaki had as much to do with the Mac's early success as Steve Jobs. And if Linus Torvalds was merely a good programmer and not extremely well-spoken and charismatic, Linux would be in the same niche as Free BSD. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Inc The Distributed Enterprise: Remote Access and IT Management For IT managers, remote offices can cause any number of headaches. Fortunately, Raritan offers solutions to help manage remote office control, security and budgetary issues. This white paper examines and analyzes the increases in uptime and security provided by out-of-band access and control tools. Learn more. Kinect sensor modified for wheelchair gaming By modifying a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a research project at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference demonstrated how gamers in a wheelchair could interact with motion games. Read More Gates sticks to company line on tablets, knocks iPad Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard and its inability to run Office. Read More Microsoft's Windows Blue to be available later this year Microsoft's update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows Blue, will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors and display sizes, and providing more options for both businesses and consumers. Read More Skype extends coverage of Manager administration tool Skype's Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centrally control their usage of the service. 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Read More Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Read More Retailers didn't do Windows 8 any favors Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Read More
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