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	Google Wallet: Five things you need to know Now that Google has officially released its Google Wallet mobile payment platform, here are five things you need to know about it. 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Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! Skype voice service crashes; users offered fix instructions Skype offers fix in first crash after Microsoft acquisition Read More Citrix expands virtualization, from the data center to the iPad Citrix products designed to let workers access desktops and applications from any device. Read More Daily innovation smackdown: Michael Dell vs. Steve Wozniak Dell CEO Michael Dell does not fear the gigantic shift to smartphones as central processing devices. Instead he believes there is a time and a place for smartphones and desktops to play harmoniously thanks to the cloud. He believes that each user will have many devices, each geared for a specific task. "Some are better for carrying with you. Others are for consuming content, others are better for creating content." But a recent boost in Dell's financials bear out its CEOs ideals that the PC is not dead. Wozniak recently flopped when he took out his dancing frustractions out on the "Dancing with the Stars" judges. But aside from that failed attempt, Wozniak's main claim to fame was his partnership with Steve Jobs in starting up Apple. The partnership worked out well, especially when they knew how to build their computer but couldn't afford the best memory chips, which came from Intel, Wozniak said. Jobs talked to someone he knew at Intel and got them for free. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Oracle BI Foundation Suite delivers the broadest end to end BI functionality from reporting, dashboards, scorecards, scenario modeling, forecasting to ad-hoc analysis. Register Today! Oklahoma City using SIEM to crack down on hackers - and wayward employees Oklahoma City is using technology that not only watches for signs of any hacker activity on its municipal government network, but monitors employee online behavior to assure no one's going out of bounds. Read More The week in Steve Ballmer: CEO ignores call for his head, talks Windows 8, China piracy and sees Microsoft stock rise I'm sure every week in the life of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer must be hectic, but this one seemed especially interesting, at least from the outside looking in. For one thing, a hedge fund manager who apparently is pretty influential called for Microsoft to fire Ballmer, saying it's the only way Redmond's long-stagnant stock price will rise again. Calls for Ballmer's head have been going on for years. The amusing thing, this time, is that Microsoft's stock promptly rose 2.3% the next day. Read More Apple sues (and settles with?) teenager who sold white iPhone 4 conversion kits This past April, Apple finally released the white model iPhone 4 after a 10 month delay attributed to a host of problems. But for some, the allure of a white iPhone 4 was too great. This past winter,  an enterprising 17 year old teenager named Fei Lam from Queens, New York decided to contact Foxconn directly and order white iPhone 4 parts - front and back plates to be specific. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Why BMC is the ITSM Market Leader Some vendors may force you to make difficult upgrades. Not us. BMC offers Rapid Results implementation services and BMC Remedy OnDemand, a SaaS version of the industry-leading IT Service Management suite. Read more to learn the top reasons why BMC Remedy offers true ITSM with out-of-the-box ease. Read More Today! Researchers tackle multi-core computer chip shortcomings Multi-core processors promise a big performance boost for servers, PCs and even smartphones, but much work remains to get the most out of these new chips. North Carolina State University researchers are among those seeking to maximize what multi-core processors have to offer. Read More Baseball fans turn to social media to torch botched Bernie Brewer scavenger hunt A marketing promotion by the Milwaukee Brewers to have baseball fans hunt for 1,400 little Bernie Brewer statues across Wisconsin to win tickets and autographs has created a social media storm this week because of people who didn't play fair. Read More Healthcare IT spending to hit $40B this year Healthcare IT spending is expected to jump this year as a result of the move to electronic health records, the growth of mobile medical apps and new federal regulations. 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