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	Perfect storm slams into HP A bad global economy, poor market conditions and confusing management moves combined to create a perfect storm that slammed into Hewlett-Packard and staggered the PC maker in its first fiscal 2012 quarter. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Government Agencies Embrace Disk-Based Backup The U.S. Government has been the largest user of tape-based backup systems since the 1970s. Most agencies have begun to deploy disk storage and disk-based backup because of reliability and security concerns. Read more In this Issue Analyst: Microsoft won't copy Apple's online-only sales for Windows 8 FAQ: What Google's 'Do Not Track' move means 36 state AGs blast Google's privacy policy change Google: New privacy policy to have little impact on enterprise Social network users getting less friendly From CIO.com: Firefox in 2012: What's in Store for the Open-Source Browser? 85% of hospitals embracing BYOD, survey shows Oracle discusses Taleo product plans, girds for new battle with SAP Mobile data privacy is terra incognita to users and developers CA offers new disaster recovery option Nokia was the biggest Windows Phone vendor in Q4, Strategy Analytics says Apple's iPad trademark battle comes to US from China Dell buys AppAssure for software backup Apple acquires app search company Chomp Preston Gralla: Microsoft will finally kill off the Windows Live brand Jonny Evans: Apple's Tim Cook: 6 months running the iPhone empire RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ExaGrid Love backup again Request a meeting with ExaGrid and receive a $100 Amazon.com gift card. ExaGrid offers a turnkey plug-and-play disk backup appliance with deduplication that works with the leading backup applications and utilities. Register now to request a 30-minute on-site or individual WebEx meeting at http://www.exagrid.com/meet. Analyst: Microsoft won't copy Apple's online-only sales for Windows 8 Microsoft will probably trim the number of Windows 8 editions it will sell later this year, but won't mimic Apple's online-only approach to OS upgrades, a retail sales analyst said today. Read More FAQ: What Google's 'Do Not Track' move means As the White House pushed a privacy bill of rights and readied online privacy legislation for Congress, Google decided on Thursday to get behind "Do Not Track" technology. Here's where things stand. Read More 36 state AGs blast Google's privacy policy change Attorneys General from 36 states are concerned over the potential implications of Google's new privacy policy, especially for users of Android-powered smartphones. Read More Google: New privacy policy to have little impact on enterprise Google's plan to share user data across its online services will have little effect on users of the company's enterprise, government and education application suites, the company said. Read More Social network users getting less friendly Facebook users are becoming decidedly unfriendly, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project study released Friday. Read More From CIO.com: Firefox in 2012: What's in Store for the Open-Source Browser? A new, Windows 8-inspired look, an app store, better tab performance and privacy enhancements are on the Mozilla Firefox roadmap in 2012. Read More 85% of hospitals embracing BYOD, survey shows Hospitals are embracing 'Bring-Your-Own-Device' initiatives, but with varying levels of access to business applications, according to a survey of the networking priorities of more than 130 healthcare IT pros. Read More Oracle discusses Taleo product plans, girds for new battle with SAP Oracle moved quickly on Friday to lay out its plans for the HCM (human capital management) software market, a couple days after rival SAP did the same thing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Government at Carahsoft ColdFusion 9: Improve Application Performance/Scalability Performance tests reveal that Adobe ColdFusion 9 software provides significant performance improvements over ColdFusion 8, delivering applications capable of processing considerably more page requests. Learn more Mobile data privacy is terra incognita to users and developers President Obama's move Thursday to establish a so-called Privacy Bill of Rights for the Internet can be seen as the consolidation of decadelong efforts by disparate groups to improve privacy protections via countless browser add-ons, settings and privacy policies. But while it's possible to guard privacy on the desktop, the rapidly growing mobile space is still the Wild West, with an almost endless landscape of privacy pitfalls that challenge even the most vigilant consumer. Read More CA offers new disaster recovery option CA Technologies has launched a disaster-recovery software-as-a-service offering that combines on-site data protection with a cloud-based service, using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure. Read More Nokia was the biggest Windows Phone vendor in Q4, Strategy Analytics says Nokia shipped 900,000 Windows Phones during the fourth quarter, which was enough to become the world's No. 1 Microsoft smartphone vendor, market research company Strategy Analytics said on Friday. Read More Apple's iPad trademark battle comes to US from China Proview Electronics has brought its legal battle against Apple to the U.S., accusing the company of using deceptive practices to acquire the iPad trademark. Read More Dell buys AppAssure for software backup Dell said Friday it has purchased backup software vendor AppAssure, in the first of an expected run of acquisitions following Dell's appointment of former CA CEO John Swainson as head of a new software division. Read More Apple acquires app search company Chomp Apple has acquired apps search company Chomp for an undisclosed price, it said Friday. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft will finally kill off the Windows Live brand One of Microsoft's more baffling branding decisions may finally be coming to an end. A report claims that with Windows 8, the confusing "Windows Live" brand will finally start to be killed off. The brand never made any sense and combined apps and services that had little, if anything, to do with one another. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Tim Cook: 6 months running the iPhone empire Six months to the day since officially becoming Apple's [AAPL] CEO, Tim Cook has already made subtle but important changes to the way the company does business. Apple today is both more human and more complex than it has been before. Read More
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