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QUOTE OF THE DAY...
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"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."
-- Will Rogers
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TODAY'S TOP STORY
Microsoft Implodes Troubled Hardware Unit
CEO Steve Ballmer will exert more influence over Entertainment and Devices Division as company veterans Bach and Allard head for the exit.
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• Windows Phone 7 Gets Motion Controller
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Gov 2.0: Army Competition Spurs App Development
The Apps for Army application development challenge has sparked development of 53 applications in only 75 days, more than half of them for mobile operating systems.
Mobile PC Shipments Soar 43%
Consumer buying in the first quarter pushed laptops, netbooks, and tablets to their highest level in eight years, according to Gartner.
AT&T Launches Times Square WiFi Hotzone
The mobile hotspot is AT&T's latest idea to alleviate the pressure of a 5000% increase in its mobile data traffic, most of it caused by iPhone users.
Google Generated $54 Billion For Economy
AdWords advertisers on average see $2 in revenue for every $1 spent on ads with Google, the company claims.
Twitter For iPhone Attracts Malware
Hackers are deploying Trojans within links in tweets. One aims to swipe users' banking information.
Pandigital Unveils Novel E-Reader
The Novel's full Web browser, e-mail app, integrated Barnes & Noble online bookstore, and $200 price tag may help it compete in a crowded marketplace.
Sybase IQ Upgrade Takes On Text Analysis
Analytic database handles structured and unstructured data. Federation and loading options improve.
Performance Monitoring Aims To Improve EHR Satisfaction
By monitoring system performance on the backend, an Alabama health system hopes to make its e-health record rollout go smoother for users.
Congress Considering Rewrite Of Telecom Law
House and Senate leaders are looking to take up the contentious issue of whether to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service, subjecting it to more regulation.
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 Gov 2.0: Aspiring To Greatness In Open Government
By John Foley
Tim O'Reilly is raising the bar on what he envisions for the open government movement. At this week's Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C., O'Reilly won't be talking merely about government serving as "a platform" -- that was last year's idea -- but about government as "a platform for greatness."
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Droid Shadow Materializes, Droid Incredible Vanishes
By Eric Zeman
It's not quite the same story as getting drunk and leaving it in a bar, but a Motorola Droid Shadow was lost (and then found) in Verizon corporate gym. At the same time, the Droid Incredible has mysteriously vanished from Verizon Wireless' web site.
Gov 2.0: Quit The Social Media Whining, Bureaucrats
By J. Nicholas Hoover
Even at the Gov 2.0 Expo, a government IT event where the geeks seem to outnumber the bureaucrats, I hear the same old refrain about social media and open data from some questioners and attendees: we can't do this, management won't accept it, government regulations make it too hard.
Microsoft Says China Piracy Killing Thousands Of U.S. Jobs
By Bob Evans
Insisting that software piracy in China has become so pervasive that "there is no software market to speak of" in the fast-growing country, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday that enhanced enforcement in China of intellectual-property rules could save U.S. firms tens of thousands of jobs, Bloomberg reports.
What Exactly Is '4G'?
By Eric Zeman
The term "4G" is being tossed around a lot in the tech industry right now, and in some instances is being misapplied. InformationWeek takes a few moments to to help sort out this alphabet soup and explain what's really going on here.
Cloud Platform Strategy
In this editorial Webcast, we'll analyze the key IT infrastructure considerations that must be taken into account for creating private clouds in federal data centers: software/hardware environment, multi-tenancy, security, virtualization, and management tools. We'll also discuss the key role that APIs play in supporting hybrid scenarios that tap into public cloud services.
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Book Excerpt: Making It Big In Software: Google's Peter Norvig
In this excerpt from the book Making It Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great, by Sam Lightstone, Google's Director of Research Peter Norvig shares insights into the working at the upper echelons of the software industry.
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Virtual Event: Merging Mobility And UC In The Enterprise
Microsoft has made the Ribbon a standard feature across all Office applications in its latest release, and it has made the Ribbon customizable. It also has made many of the Office 2010 features more visible in the Ribbon, and added some new features.
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