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	Microsoft kissing Hotmail goodbye Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath The Compliance Trap This white paper presents best practices for protecting payment card data, and reasons why evaluating compensating controls and QSAs are equally important in the context of scarce IT staff time and security expertise. Learn More In this Issue 9 ex-Googlers on the move Dropbox blames employee account breach for spam attack Greatest Tech Battles Ever Told Cisco at forefront of video growth Outsourcers apparently don't miss a beat in face of massive India power outage Verizon Wireless to pay fine for allegedly blocking tethering apps Getting out in front of BYOD Meet the new email boss Outlook.com, not the same as the old boss Hotmail Lenovo and EMC join forces on storage, servers Google acquires social media marketing firm Wildfire INSIDER The state of network security Ask an IT support pro: Why I hate live chat WEBCAST: IBM Changing the Competitive Dynamics of the Business Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality. Register Now 9 ex-Googlers on the move While Google is widely regarded as one of the best places to work in the technology industry, some Googlers seem to do just fine even after leaving Mountain View. Here are a few Google alums you may have heard of. Read More Dropbox blames employee account breach for spam attack Dropbox said Tuesday one of its employee's accounts was compromised, leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. Read More Greatest Tech Battles Ever Told In honor of the patent war heating up between Apple and Samsung, we're looking back at epic tech battles. The one thing they all have in common: the future of the universe hung in the balance. (Okay, not the universe but a really big market.) Read More Cisco at forefront of video growth Video - both business and consumer - is driving much of what Cisco prioritizes on these days. By its own research, Cisco says video will account for over 90% of global consumer IP traffic in 2014. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Automate Your Partners for Efficient E-Business Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess your B2B approach. Learn More Outsourcers apparently don't miss a beat in face of massive India power outage The massive power outages across most of northern India have not affected the software development, back office operations and services work that emanates from the country. Read More Verizon Wireless to pay fine for allegedly blocking tethering apps Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay US$1.25 million to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to resolve a complaint that it blocked third-party tethering applications on Android phones, the FCC said Tuesday. Read More Getting out in front of BYOD It wasn't long ago that BYO was something you'd find on a party invitation. But with the wave of employees bringing their own smartphones and tablets into the workplace and expecting to use them for email, network access and mobile apps, BYOD -- or "bring your own device" -- now represents a promising but formidable business trend that doesn't leave IT in the mood for celebration. Read More Meet the new email boss Outlook.com, not the same as the old boss Hotmail Microsoft spent much of last year cleaning up and improving Hotmail, chasing off spammers and introducing new algorithms to keep your mailbox free of spam and graymail alike. So I guess it stands to reason that the next logical step was to replace it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan A Quick Start to Measuring Power Use Rule-of-thumb estimates for power consumption are no longer sufficient. Discover a quick way to establish baseline power measurements with intelligent rack power distribution units (iPDUs) to meter the power and wireless sensors communicating that information, and eliminate the need for Ethernet connections to iPDUs. Learn More Lenovo and EMC join forces on storage, servers Lenovo and EMC will team up to develop and sell server and storage technology, with an eye to the Chinese market, the companies said on Wednesday. Read More Google acquires social media marketing firm Wildfire Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage with people across all social services, it said Tuesday. Read More INSIDER The state of network security Network security is still as necessary as it was 15 years ago when the Black Hat Conference was first beginning. Sure the players have changed and the sophistication, but it is a classic good vs. evil scenario still. Read More Ask an IT support pro: Why I hate live chat During peak business hours it is not uncommon for someone calling into support to be put on hold. Support technicians prefer not to make a customer wait, but sometimes it is necessary. Often times these customers have exhausted all other support services, such as knowledgebases, customer forums and perhaps their own troubleshooting attempts, without success. As a result, being put on hold can make... Read More
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