Phablets don't get no respect

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	Phablets don't get no respect Forty years ago this week, Motorola vice president and division manager Martin Cooper made the world's first cellphone call on the company's DynaTAC model. Since that milestone, we've gone from being a nation in love with cars to one in love with phones. But despite the popularity of jumbo handsets like Samsung's Galaxy Note, phablets -- like Rodney Dangerfield -- get no respect. Size matters, and smaller is better, according to a Flurry report this week that singled out the new large-screen phones, or "phablets," as a fad that developers shouldn't waste their time on. Read More WHITE PAPER: IntraLinks Download the Cloud Security Deep Dive The scalability of cloud computing depends on sharing resources that were never shared before, creating a new set of risks -- and demanding a new set of security best practices. Cloud computing is a new paradigm that challenges traditional security dogma. Read More In this Issue Microsoft: No more support for you, Office for Mac 2008 Google search dominance may not last in mobile age PostgreSQL updates address high-risk vulnerability, other issues Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for April to address Windows 8 vulnerabilities Samsung sees operating profit jump 49 percent on mobile sales WHITE PAPER: IBM Drive Growth and Value with Proven BPM Solutions from IBM BPM aligns strategic imperatives with internal capabilities and utilizes technology in ways that maximize the productivity of people, processes and systems. Discover how midsize firms have seen success with BPM by starting small, thinking big and scaling fast. Read Now Microsoft: No more support for you, Office for Mac 2008 Microsoft today reminded customers running Office for Mac 2008 that support for the suite ends next Tuesday. "Support for Office for Mac 2008 will end April 9, 2013," Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU), the firm's OS X development arm, said in a post on the team's blog Thursday. Read More Google search dominance may not last in mobile age For more than a decade, Google has become synonymous with search. Despite Microsoft's well-funded efforts to get users to "Bing It," people are still "googling" with wild abandon. However, there are some signs that the company's dominance may not extend into the mobile age. Read More PostgreSQL updates address high-risk vulnerability, other issues The PostgreSQL developers released updates for all major branches of the popular open-source database system on Thursday in order to address several vulnerabilities, including a high-risk one that could allow attackers to crash the server, modify configuration variables as superuser or execute arbitrary code if certain conditions are met. Read More Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for April to address Windows 8 vulnerabilities Windows 8 and Windows RT are subject to critical vulnerabilities that will be addressed on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday next week, both by virtue of supporting Internet Explorer 10. The bulletin for the vulnerabilities addresses similar problems in all versions of Internet Explorer from IE6 through IE10. That means affected operating systems include XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. Read More Samsung sees operating profit jump 49 percent on mobile sales Samsung Electronics said today that it expects a first-quarter operating profit of between 8.5 trillion won and 8.9 trillion won ($7.6 billion to $8 billion), a sharp increase of at least 49 percent from a year earlier. Market watchers said the Korean electronics giants appears to be poised to post better-than-expected results despite seasonally slow first-quarter demand for IT products and costs resulting from a patent dispute with its biggest rival, Apple. Read More
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