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	Google details its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone For a potentially revolutionary smartphone, it wasn't the best start. 'We did crack the screen, and the phone doesn't quite boot,' said Paul Eremenko, head of Google's Project Ara, as he presented an engineering prototype of the first Project Ara phone during a webcast developer event in Mountain View, Calif. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Enhance and optimize your mobility/BYOD infrastructure Grow your mobile workforce without risking security or increasing administrative complexity. This new white paper explains how Dell Mobility Solutions can help you increase mobile/BYOD performance and capacity while protecting company resources and streamlining IT management. Learn more In this Issue Heartbleed bug is irritating McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky Lab Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy Buying Google Glass today? 7 things you should know VMware promises Heartbleed patches for affected products by the weekend Riverbed re-brands storage offerings, adds to the stack CIOs to become in-house brokers -- and that's a good thing UConn-Comcast launch security research center during Heartbleed week Cold War sneakiness: CIA confirms using Dr. Zhivago as a weapon Big data drives 47% growth for top 50 public cloud companies WEBCAST: CA Technologies LIVE EVENT: 5/7, The End of Data Protection As We Know It. Traditional backup is going away, but where does this leave end-users? Learn more! Heartbleed bug is irritating McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky Lab The Heartbleed Bug disclosed by the OpenSSL group on April 7 has sent many vendors scurrying to patch their products and that includes security firms Symantec, Intel Security's McAfee division, and Kaspersky Lab. Read More Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy Microsoft on Monday conceded that Google's Chrome OS and the Chromebooks the operating system powers are capable of doing real work, a reversal of its 'Scroogled' campaign that once blasted the laptops as worthless. Read More Buying Google Glass today? 7 things you should know Not one of the approximately 8,000 Google Glass Explorers but wish you were? If so, today is the day pick up a pair, but there are a few things you should know. Read More WHITE PAPER: Google Apps Radicati: Cloud Business Email - Market Quadrant 2013 Google was named the top cloud business email provider in a recent report by research firm Radicati. Out of 14 key players, Google Apps for Business leads the pack in both functionality and estimated adoption. Learn more! VMware promises Heartbleed patches for affected products by the weekend VMware started patching its products against the critical Heartbleed flaw that puts encrypted communications at risk, and plans to have updates ready for all affected products by Saturday. Read More Riverbed re-brands storage offerings, adds to the stack Riverbed released a rebranded SteelFusion line of storage appliances, signaling its intention to further centralize its branch office lines and combine as much functionality as possible into a single device. Read More CIOs to become in-house brokers -- and that's a good thing In their new role as brokers and consultants, CIOs will be in an even more powerful positions. According to a new survey, about two-thirds of C-level executives and business unit leaders expect the IT department to have more influence on technology decisions in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP Real-time voice communications are sensitive to delay and variation in packet arrival times. This paper guides you through the essentials of VoIP troubleshooting, including common problems as well as the metrics you should employ to fix and prevent them. Learn More UConn-Comcast launch security research center during Heartbleed week The University of Connecticut has joined forces with Comcast to launch the Center of Excellence for Security Innovation at UConn's Storrs campus, building on the school's already well established Center for Hardware Assurance, Security and Engineering (CHASE). Read More Cold War sneakiness: CIA confirms using Dr. Zhivago as a weapon Interesting admission from the Central Intelligence Agency as it confirmed the long-held suspicion that it indeed had a role in publishing the first Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago after the book had been banned in the Soviet Union in 1958. Read More Big data drives 47% growth for top 50 public cloud companies Big data analytics are driving rapid growth for public cloud computing vendors with revenues for the top 50 public cloud providers shooting up 47% in the fourth quarter last year to $6.2 billion, according to Technology Business Research Inc. Read More
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