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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