Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts

Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today.

But it's not in danger of disappearing, either overnight or as far as forecasts predict.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-must-fight-remain-influential-say-analysts-216176?source=rss_applications

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What could be worse than the IRS's grubby hands? Its spying eyes

Just in time for Tax Day 2013 (better known in the Cringely household as Tequila for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Day) comes news that the IRS is even a bigger snoop than you suspected -- or at least it might be.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/what-could-be-worse-the-irss-grubby-hands-its-spying-eyes-216215?source=rss_applications

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Mozilla Wants to Eliminate Passwords With ‘Persona’

Mozilla thinks it's high time you stopped creating a new username and password for every site you want to use. To do that the company has launched a second beta of its Persona identity project. Now all you need to use Mozilla Persona is a Yahoo email account.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/mozilla-wants-to-eliminate-passwords-with-persona/

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The Chemistry of the Murder Mystery (2)

Agatha Christie's first novel featured one of the great homicidal poisons - strychnine - and took advantage of obscure chemistry to carry out and solve the murder.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/the-chemistry-of-mysteries-2/

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Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts

Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today.

But it's not in danger of disappearing, either overnight or as far as forecasts predict.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-must-fight-remain-influential-say-analysts-216176?source=rss_applications

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Sticky-Fingered Plant May Hold the Secret to Snaring Bed Bugs

For a bed bug, scurrying across the leaves of a kidney bean plant could quickly end any plans to foist itchy devastation upon unsuspecting sleepers. Now, using an imprint of the leaf itself, scientists have created a surface that mimics ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/biomimetic-bedbug-snare/

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Cloud | Microsoft’s Open Source Company Is a Year Old. But What Is It?

Last week, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. quietly turned one year old. The birthday passed without fanfare, but next week, Microsoft plans to host a birthday party at its Silicon Valley campus.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/microsoftopentech/

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Windows XP countdown: Will Microsoft blink?

Credit: Ron Chapple Stock

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/windows-xp-countdown-will-microsoft-blink-216003?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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InfoWorld poll: How you'll replace Windows XP

Microsoft is adamant it will stop support for Windows XP in May 2014, 12 years and nine months after its initial release. Despite its age, Windows XP remains the most used version of Windows today. Although XP will continue to run once Microsoft ends support, users won't receive security updates, and IT won't have Microsoft support for user systems. XP "downgrades" will no longer be available for new user PCs in the enterprise either.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/infoworld-poll-how-youll-replace-windows-xp-216041?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Nice One, Jerk!

This month sees a 3-D rerelease of Jurassic Park and an ultraviolent remake of camp horror classic The Evil Dead. Cash-ins? Perhaps. But more important, they’re a public service to remind us that most bad things in movies happen because ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/04/nice-one-jerk/

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On the Small Screen | Supercharge Your Instagram Feed on the Cheap With Gramatica

The Instagram app on iOS has a few glaring omissions: pinch and zoom, lists, hiding users and multiple account management. They're holes that were just waiting for exploitation, and now Gramatica ($1) has stepped in to do just that.

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/04/gramatica/

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March 5, 1904: Tesla’s Having a Ball

Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.”

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2013/03/march-5-1904-teslas-having-a-ball/

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Dell affirms commitment to Windows RT

Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, said Neil Hand, vice president at Dell.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/dell-affirms-commitment-windows-rt-216531

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Networks | Google’s Super-Speed Internet Will Hit Austin in 2014

It's official: Google's ultra-high-speed internet service is headed for Austin, Texas. Over the weekend, a headline announcing the new appeared on the Google Fiber blog before disappearing. But now it's the back, confirming that Austin will receive the Google service ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/google-fiber-austin-official/

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DC Introduces First Transgender Character in Mainstream Comics

DC Comics announced that it will expand the LGBT diversity of its universe even further by introducing the first openly transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic.

Source: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wiredunderwire/~3/sWU6jam7GTg/

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Networks | Google’s Super-Speed Internet Will Hit Austin in 2014

It's official: Google's ultra-high-speed internet service is headed for Austin, Texas. Over the weekend, a headline announcing the new appeared on the Google Fiber blog before disappearing. But now it's the back, confirming that Austin will receive the Google service ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/google-fiber-austin-official/

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Puppet or Chef: The configuration management dilemma

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say "faster" and the CTO would say "cloud." Everyone would nod and say, "Of course."

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/puppet-or-chef-the-configuration-management-dilemma-215279?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Progress

Over at the arXiv, a great paper was recently posted entitled “Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies.” It’s fascinating and combines a whole variety of my interests together: network science, scientific impact, and how scientists innovate. It’s well worth ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/tradition-and-innovation-in-scientific-progress/

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Best of Pioneer: A Look at Mankind’s First Encounters With Jupiter and Saturn

Though not well remembered, Pioneer 10 and 11 were the first spacecraft to ever pass through the asteroid belt and encounter the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Here, we take a look at some of these exploratory probes' best images ...

Source: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wiredscience/~3/YAPlIU9oqy0/

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