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1. Mindjet Connects Vision, Action In Social Platform
   Following up on last year's acquisition of Cohuman, Mindjet creates a social platform that excels at letting users visually map out plans, then collaborate to get work done.
   
   
   
2. Charlie Miller Makes iPhones Better By Attacking Them
   Apple products have gotten a lot more secure over the years, and Dr. Charlie Miller is one reason why. He is the leading authority on the vulnerabilities and exploits of Mac OS and iOS and has won awards in the field. How did he get to this place and what matters to him?
   
   
   
3. Telemonitoring Helps Pharmacists Manage Patients' Hypertension
   Patients who monitor their blood pressure at home and enlist pharmacists to help manage their care see improved results.
   
   
   
4. EMC World: Storage News Wrap-Up
   EMC announces upgrades to Symmetrix VMAX, VNX, Isilon, Data Domain, Isilon storage arrays and appliances, and new management software at EMC World 2012.
   
   
   
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6. Is iPatch Tuesday In Apple's Future?
   iOS devices are all over the enterprise. Security threats against them might or might not exist, but they are certainly possible. The only responsible course of action for Apple is to make its update process transparent and predictable.
   
   
   
7. Web-Based Insurance Exchanges Attract $1 Billion+
   Recent federal investments in state health insurance exchanges bring total grant funding to more than $1 billion. Needed next: strong security.
   
   
   
8. CIA's View Of Mobile, Internet Use: By The Numbers
   Here's what the CIA sees as the use of mobile phones completely outpaces use of the Internet.
   
   
   
9. Cloud's Tough Enemy: Chargeback Pushback
   Chargeback has always been hard for IT, but cloud computing forces the issue. At the same time, pushback from business users continues.
   
   
   
10. 9 Lessons From Utah Data Breach
    Breach of unencrypted data affected 28% of the state's residents; one in 10 had Social Security numbers stolen. How can you avoid such an epic fail?
    
    
    
11. Yahoo Divests Half Its Alibaba Stake For $7.1 Billion
    Deal gives Yahoo a cash injection while positioning Chinese Internet company for possible IPO.
    
    
    
12. Yahoo ResuMess: The Trouble With Entitlement Culture
    The resume drama for Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had a quiet player: a corporate culture that seeks fairness but produces employees who feel entitled. Here's what his successor, and all managers, must know about that problem.
    
    
    
13. Cable Giants Open 50,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots
    Five cable companies, including Comcast and Time Warner, have agreed to let subscribers roam freely on Wi-Fi networks operated by one another.
    
    
    
14. Yammer, Chatter, Tibbr Ranked Top Social Activity Streams
    Forrester Research ranks the leaders in a market segment that excludes social intranet portal players like Jive Software.
    
    
    
15. SAP Swallows Sybase, CEO John Chen's Role Uncertain
    Sybase will be an SAP brand, not a separate subsidiary, in an integration that eliminates the longtime Sybase CEO's current role.
    
    
    
16. 4 Ways Facebook Can Woo SMBs
    Facebook's ad revenue depends largely on the combined pool of smaller advertisers. Here's what the company can do to better serve SMBs.
    
    
    
17. EMC's Gelsinger Talks Cloud Storage, Pricing Pressure
    Before kicking off this week's EMC World conference, EMC president and chief operating officer Pat Gelsinger spoke with InformationWeek on automation, the roles EMC will and won't play in cloud storage, and more.
    
    
    
18. Social Collaboration: A Work In Progress
    Improving collaboration continues to top executive priority lists, so let's revisit whether they're "teasing out" the right tools and techniques.
    
    
    
19. Open Source: Why Are You Still Waiting?
    Open source technology has pervaded government IT. The private sector must follow, because of cloud, agility, mobility, and the wild card: teenagers.
    
    
    
20. Next Valley View: Cloud, Baseball IT, And More
    Tune in May 23 for the next episode of our live Web TV series, including chats with execs from Framehawk and Cloudability, plus Bill Schlough, CIO of the 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants.
    
    
    
21. 5 IT Budget Presentation Do's And Don'ts
    Strong presentation skills can be an important advantage when negotiating projects with your company's senior execs. But leave the Mr. Cool act at home.
    
    
    
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23. Machines Make Cell Phone Calls To Each Other!
    The world is secretly full of embedded cellular applications. It's called M2M for mobile-to-mobile, and it leads to new efficiencies for everything from the office coffee machine to the burglar alarm.
    
    
    
24. Sailing Mystery Unsolved: Court Declares Jim Gray Dead
    Highly respected researcher Jim Gray contributed to relational database development and early big data projects. More than five years ago, he and his sailboat disappeared near the Farallon Islands.
    
    
    
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26. Jumping Into Tibbr Social Collaboration With Both Feet
    IT services firm CGI skipped the pilot project and launched Tibco's Tibbr to 31,000 users at once.
    
    
    
27. Oh, Facebook, Why Can't I Quit You?
    Facebook sells your addiction to advertisers, hoping to make a buck off your personal information. Will you wake up in time to kick the habit, or do you "like" the security risks of blurring the line between personal and professional?
    
    
    
28. New FBI Surveillance Backdoors? 6 Key Points
    Will Congress require social networks, VoIP, and Webmail providers build in backdoors that FBI could tap for electronic surveillance purposes? Explore the main issues at stake.