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	Melissa virus turning 15 … (age of the stripper still unknown) (Note: This Buzzblog item was originally posted on March 24, 2009. It's been altered here only to reflect the passage of another five years.) Somewhere out there in America is a stripper (or former stripper) who for 15 years has lived with the naked truth that she was David L. Smith's inspiration for naming the first widely destructive, self-propagating, network-paralyzing, e-mail-borne macro virus: W97M: Melissa. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Flash-optimized Data Progression Discover how higher capacity, lower cost, read-intensive MCL SSDs, combined with flash-optimized data progression techniques, can tier data across high-endurance, high performance, write-intensive SLC SSDs and read-intensive MLC SSDs to disrupt the current flash cost model. Read Now In this Issue 12 signs Apple is bringing an iWatch to market Is Obama's proposal to end NSA bulk collection of phone records really a privacy win? Apple may be working on newly designed MacBook for 2014 release With Google's announcements, it's "Game On" in the cloud Mitel, ShoreTel, snom Offer New VoIP Phones FIRST LOOK: The HTC One M8 smartphone Photoshop artists give Bill Belichick his wish Can GameStop survive competition from Microsoft and Walmart? Twittering! The first tweets of 21 tech titans 12 Bluetooth gadgets for geeks WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Ensuring Today's Assets Today's trends like BYOD and SaaS are new and exciting in terms of how they will help make our jobs more productive but they also introduce challenges as it relates to software licensing. Find out more - it's time for your organization to look at how to better manage software assets. Read Now 12 signs Apple is bringing an iWatch to market A combination of rumors and Apple's own activities suggest an impending smartwatch release. Read More   Is Obama's proposal to end NSA bulk collection of phone records really a privacy win? President Obama plans to call for an end of NSA bulk collection and storage of phone record metadata, but is that a win for privacy or a way to legalize such spying? Read More   Apple may be working on newly designed MacBook for 2014 release New MacBook Pro and Air models may be released in the next few months. Read More   With Google's announcements, it's "Game On" in the cloud Amazon Web Services basically invented the go to market strategy for infrastructure as a service public cloud when it launched Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Today, Google took big steps toward giving Amazon some of its most aggressive competition in this market. Read More   Mitel, ShoreTel, snom Offer New VoIP Phones Read More   FIRST LOOK: The HTC One M8 smartphone HTC One M8 is finally here! Everyone try and act surprised! Read More   Photoshop artists give Bill Belichick his wish "They can Photoshop me in there," said Bill Belichick in response to chatter about his being the only one of 32 NFL coaches to miss a group photo. And with that Twitter got to work. Here's Pirate Bill. And here's Omnipresent Bill. Read More   Can GameStop survive competition from Microsoft and Walmart? Second-hand games are a $2 billion market, and most of that goes to the GameStop chain. But now Walmart wants a piece of that action, the second bit of bad news for GameStop in as many months. It came as no surprise, then, that GameStop's stock tanked for a few days. Starting next week, Walmart customers can trade in video games for store credit at both Walmart and Sam's Club stores, the Walmart chain's... Read More   Twittering! The first tweets of 21 tech titans In honor of Twitter's 8th birthday, relive the first time some of the best-known names in technology tried tweeting Read More   12 Bluetooth gadgets for geeks Read More
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