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	8 emerging tech titles -- grab 'em before they're hot   With change the only constant in the IT jobs market these days, savvy tech pros are keeping their eye on these emerging specialties. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell and Intel   Keep Your SAN Running Optimally In-depth monitoring and analysis are essential to effective storage management. Learn how SAN HQ for Dell EqualLogic SANs can help identify faults, accelerate time to resolution, simplify storage management, optimize performance, and boost efficiency at no additional cost for EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays. Learn more! In this Issue Samsung offers apology for workers' leukemia This may be the best thing you've seen at a conference this year Laid-off IBM workers allege age bias in lawsuit SanDisk ships its first self-encrypting SSDs Real reason behind California's kill-switch bill: Bieber Apple CEO Tim Cook -- now, half-off Microsoft sticks to vow, leaves XP exposed to ongoing attacks Viptela joins the WAN disruption party With the Internet of Things, smart buildings pose big risk Oracle asks for its pound of flesh in unique SAP theft case Quick look: What's hot with 3D printers? WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc.   Five Steps to Developing a Successful Mobile Strategy Don't lose time and money with a "throw an app against a wall to see if sticks" approach to mobile. It won't work. You need a well-thought-out strategy to take full advantage of mobile. This white paper lays out the five important steps to a robust enterprise mobile strategy. Learn more. Samsung offers apology for workers' leukemia Samsung offered its "sincerest apology" for the sickness and deaths of some of its workers, vowing to compensate those affected and their families. Read More   This may be the best thing you've seen at a conference this year Those open source folks over at OpenStack seem to know how to keep conferences light. This week more than 4,500 OpenStack faithful have descended upon Atlanta for the organization's bi-annual summit. During one of the keynote sessions by OpenStack Foundation executive Mark Collier, he brought up on stage someone who looked at awful lot like Hollywood actor Zack Galifianakis. Then this happened: Read... Read More   Laid-off IBM workers allege age bias in lawsuit Three former IBM employees laid off last year have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging they were victims of age discrimination. IBM denies the charge. Read More   SanDisk ships its first self-encrypting SSDs SanDisk today announced its SanDisk X300s SSD line-up, which uses TCG Opal 2.0 and Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive hardware-based encryption, coupled with a new SSD administration dashboard. Read More   Real reason behind California's kill-switch bill: Bieber Those crafty California lawmakers saw this one coming and now we know the real reason they are pushing for cell phones sold in that state to come equipped with a kill switch: the one pop-star crime wave that is Justin Bieber. According to the Los Angeles Times: Read More   Apple CEO Tim Cook -- now, half-off A lunch date with Apple CEO Tim Cook went for $330,000 yesterday in an online charity auction -- a little more than half what someone paid last year for a 30-minute coffee break with him. Read More   Microsoft sticks to vow, leaves XP exposed to ongoing attacks   Hackers are already exploiting an Internet Explorer vulnerability left unpatched in Windows XP on Tuesday, Microsoft and security experts said. Read More   Viptela joins the WAN disruption party Happy Cinco De Mayo to all, and I hope everyone had a great Star Wars weekend (May the 4th be with all of you!). It appears that, while many of us were watching Star Wars movies (2-6 I hope, as everyone hates 1) or planning a big Mexican feast, the folks over at Viptela were also busy. Monday morning, like a Jedi in the shadows, Viptela came out of stealth mode a week after CloudGenix launched, to... Read More   With the Internet of Things, smart buildings pose big risk In an Internet of Things world, smart buildings with web-enabled technologies for managing heat, lighting, ventilation, elevators and other systems pose a more immediate security risk for enterprises than consumer technologies. Read More   Oracle asks for its pound of flesh in unique SAP theft case Oracle has asked an appeals court to reinstate a US$1.3 billion jury award against SAP for what an Oracle lawyer on Tuesday called "the most massive and brazen copyright infringement in history." Read More   Quick look: What's hot with 3D printers? 3D printed guns, candy and cars top the list. Read More
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