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	Who owns that Twitter account? Noah Kravitz built up quite a following at PhoneDog, a mobile-phone news and reviews website. By late 2010 his @PhoneDog_Noah Twitter account had amassed more than 17,000 followers. That was all well and good, until Kravitz resigned and went to work for a competitor. Kravitz took his followers with him, changing the name on his account to @noahkravitz. And that's when PhoneDog, which was unwilling to let 17,000 fans go that easily, filed a lawsuit against him. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Assessing ROI for Mobile Acceleration Clients As mobile devices continue to expand in business use, ensuring these devices have optimal performance is becoming an IT imperative. This EMA paper examines mobile client accelerators. It provides an overview of how the technology works, its business benefits and cites three examples of real-world use cases and their individual costs and ROI. Read More In this Issue Google ports Office-substitute app to Chrome OS, Chrome browser Intel releases Hadoop distribution primed for its own chips Iceotope names first customer for immersively cooled servers HP faces shareholder revolt over Autonomy purchase Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance WHITE PAPER: ITinvolve 5 Reasons Why Social IT is Essential Forward-thinking IT managers recognize that social collaboration can harness the power of the collective knowledge in IT to substantially improve efficiencies while reducing risks in managing IT environments. This whitepaper describes five reasons why IT departments must embrace social IT as it will increasingly become essential to their success. Read Now. Google ports Office-substitute app to Chrome OS, Chrome browser Google confirmed Tuesday that it has ported part of QuickOffice, a popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office, to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser. The search giant acquired QuickOffice in mid-2012, and rolled the iOS and Android apps -- and QuickOffice's development team -- into its Google Apps group. As an app for the iPhone, iPad, and Android-powered smartphones and tablets, QuickOffice lets customers view, create, and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Read More Intel releases Hadoop distribution primed for its own chips Intel has released its own Hadoop distribution in a move intended to accelerate adoption of the big data platform while ensuring more of those workloads run on Intel's own Xeon processors. The Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop includes core pieces of the data analysis platform that Intel is releasing as open-source software, as well as deployment and tuning tools that Intel developed itself and which are not open source. Read More Iceotope names first customer for immersively cooled servers Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, in the north of England, has been using an Iceotope server since December to run computational fluid dynamics models -- and to warm the radiators in one of its laboratories. Read More HP faces shareholder revolt over Autonomy purchase An investor advisor group is asking shareholders of Hewlett-Packard not to re-elect two long-standing board members and to oppose the ratification of the company's audit firm in connection with the continuing controversy over the company's purchase of Autonomy. HP met with shareholder groups this week, though it is not clear whether there has been a resolution on the issues, a source said. Read More Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. The alliance has gathered over 300 members in its two-and-a-half years of existence. Most of them are users of data center and cloud services: Banks and telcos dominate, but others include a U.S. university, a French car manufacturer and the Dutch national police agency. Read More
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