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As Apple desktop use grows, IT adapts

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July 15, 2015

As Apple desktop use grows, IT adapts

The popularity of iPhones and iPads has yielded more enterprise use of Mac desktops and laptops, particularly among millennials. READ MORE

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1. NASA spacecraft to be full of 'dazzling' data after Pluto flyby

2. U.S. memory maker buyout by Chinese firm not likely to succeed

3. Cheap chip card readers are on the way for merchants

4. Security Manager's Journal: Assessing the value of cyber-insurance

5. Reddit's new CEO tries to clean up the 'dark side' of the site

6. Hacking Team CEO insists tools weren't compromised

7. Barbara Krasnoff: ZTE Axon: A new flagship for the prepaid market

8. Microsoft Patch Tuesday says goodbye to Windows Server 2003

9. Google opens its cloud to Microsoft workloads

10. INSIDER The top 10 supercomputers in the world, 20 years ago

11. ACLU asks court to immediately end NSA phone snooping

12. Vietnamese man gets 13 years for massive ID theft scheme

13. ITblogwatch: Nadella U-turn: Microsoft 'will' make Lumia phones (err, unless OEMs do)

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After a journey of nine years and 3 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft re-established contact with NASA and was furiously collecting data and what are expected to be "dazzling" images of the dwarf planet Pluto. READ MORE

U.S. memory maker buyout by Chinese firm not likely to succeed

An attempt to buy U.S.-based Micron by China's largest government owned chipmaker, Tsinghua Unigroup, isn't likely to succeed for several reasons, not the least of which is that the U.S. government is unlikely to approve it and Micron has no reason to sell. READ MORE

Cheap chip card readers are on the way for merchants

U.S. banks are shipping more secure chip-embedded credit and debit cards to consumers, but industry attention is also focused on whether merchants have installed updated payment terminals that can accept the new cards. READ MORE

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Once regarded as a freewheeling discussion forum, Reddit is struggling to create rules that would curb offensive and obscene content on the site, risking alienating a number of users, some of them concerned about protecting freedom of speech on the site. READ MORE

Hacking Team CEO insists tools weren't compromised

The founder of the Italian surveillance software company that suffered a disastrous data breach last week sought to reassure clients about the gravity of the intrusion. READ MORE

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Barbara Krasnoff: ZTE Axon: A new flagship for the prepaid market

ZTE is upping the ante with the Axon, a new high-end Android phone that comes with strong audio and visual features. READ MORE

Microsoft Patch Tuesday says goodbye to Windows Server 2003

With this month's Patch Tuesday round of security fixes, Microsoft has ended its support for the Windows Server 2003 operating system. READ MORE

Google opens its cloud to Microsoft workloads

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ACLU asks court to immediately end NSA phone snooping

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Vietnamese man gets 13 years for massive ID theft scheme

A Vietnamese man linked to a data breach of 200 million personal records at a subsidiary of credit monitoring firm Experian has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. READ MORE

ITblogwatch: Nadella U-turn: Microsoft 'will' make Lumia phones (err, unless OEMs do)

The Microsoft Lumia and Windows Phone business is dead. Unless it isn't. Satya Nadella "clarified" the strategy, but now there are more questions than answers. READ MORE

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