Huawei's interest in Nokia makes it a huge threat to Microsoft

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	Huawei's interest in Nokia makes it a huge threat to Microsoft Rumors that Microsoft has recently been wooing Nokia, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, are certainly plausible -- and not entirely surprising. Microsoft made it clear it had a long-term relationship in mind when it penned that billion-dollar deal with the Finnish phone maker in 2011 in exchange for Nokia's agreeing to focus on cranking out the finest Windows Phones. But now it looks like Nokia has another suitor knocking: China-based phone maker Huawei. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eversync Achieve Backup Success Without Becoming a Backup Expert Server virtualization changes everything about managing IT infrastructures. One aspect that often gets overlooked is how much backup and recovery changes in virtualized environments. Learn More In this Issue Best Buy recalls 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire NSA spying could mean U.S. tech companies lose international business Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools Facebook designing network 'fabric' to meet massive performance needs A final, desperate -- and doomed -- push for H-1B restrictions WHITE PAPER: Falconstor Software Demystifying Data Deduplication Data deduplication has become a primary requirement for backup implementations. Although many vendors claim to offer the best data deduplication approach, results can vary based on a company's unique needs. This white paper describes the key considerations when selecting a deduplication solution, helping you separate hype from reality. Learn More Best Buy recalls 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire Best Buy has recalled about 5,100 replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, after 13 reports that the battery caught fire, a U.S. consumer safety agency said. The ATG lithium-ion batteries can catch fire while charging, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement Wednesday. Read More NSA spying could mean U.S. tech companies lose international business It is not just personal information that is being swept into the National Security Agency's (NSA) massive databases. It is corporate data as well. And that could cause some serious international blowback for domestic Internet companies, both politically and economically. Read More Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help Twitter beef up its efforts to keep users "in the loop." The company has been rumored to be working on its own location discovery feature to surface certain tweets posted by people nearby. Read More Facebook designing network 'fabric' to meet massive performance needs With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social network moves about 1,000 times as much data between the servers inside its data centers as it does from its servers out to end users, company executives said Wednesday. They talked about the challenges that this creates for Facebook and the network technologies it's developing to overcome them. Read More A final, desperate -- and doomed -- push for H-1B restrictions The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are backing a proposed amendment to the immigration bill that would require employers to "first offer a vacant position to an equally or better qualified American worker" before filling the job with an H-1B worker. Read More
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