A violent cellphone crime wave sweeps the US

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	A violent cellphone crime wave sweeps the US On Feb. 27 in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission District when she was ordered at gunpoint to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gunpoint, three at knifepoint, and four through brute force. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware How Virtualization is Key to Managing Risk Is your IT environment ready for a disaster? Virtualization can save your infrastructure before an outage occurs and can also ensure an efficient recovery without data loss. Read this eBook to learn how VMware virtualization solutions can help prepare your systems for a disaster and protect your data if one does strike. Read Now! In this Issue Windows developer says kernel dev being mismanaged Desktop chips zip past 4GHz; next stop 5GHz? Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy Yahoo acquires Loki Studios as part of acquisition spree Why Microsoft won't charge for Windows 'Blue' WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow Next Gen IT and the Cloud There is no excuse for using inflexible systems built on legacy technology. Read Now! Windows developer says kernel dev being mismanaged In a litany almost as old as software development itself, a Windows kernel developer posted a scathing rebuke of the way kernel development is being managed. Read More Desktop chips zip past 4GHz; next stop 5GHz? Mobility has all but eclipsed speed and anything else as the capability garnering the most attention in desktop processors. Today, the chip world is seemingly focused on producing low power chips with integrated graphics accelerators that perform swiftly and extend battery life.Many of these chips run well under 2GHz, which is more than enough to enable vendors to create fast and fan-less tablets and laptops, such as the Samsung Chromebook. Read More Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says. The GreenTouch consortium, formed in 2010 to speed up progress on more efficient networks, says it has identified technologies that together could cut network power needs by 90 percent even in the face of rapidly growing data demand. The group of equipment vendors, component makers and service providers will present that conclusion in a report due in mid-June. Read More Yahoo acquires Loki Studios as part of acquisition spree Yahoo has acquired a mobile gaming company, Loki Studios, taking its total acquisitions this month to four. The company said over the weekend it welcomed Loki, Astrid, GoPollGo, and MileWise to its growing mobile team. "We recently added 22 entrepreneurs to our growing mobile team," the company said in a Twitter message in a possible reference to some of the people from the four companies who have moved to Yahoo. Read More Why Microsoft won't charge for Windows 'Blue' Sometime in the coming weeks, Microsoft will tell Windows 8 users whether they will have to pay for the upgrade code-named "Blue," and if so, how much. While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on the subject, analysts believe Microsoft won't charge for Blue, but may do so for later updates. Read More
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