Report: Feds have all-out access to your online content

We love it! We hate it! Here's what we want! Windows Red reconsidered | The TechEd takeaway: Microsoft is betting big on the cloud

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Report: Feds have all-out access to your online content
Major tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, are participating in a classified surveillance program dubbed PRISM, providing the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI with direct access to user content -- emails, videos, photos, and documents -- via their central servers, according to an investigative report by the Washington Post. Read More


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We love it! We hate it! Here's what we want! Windows Red reconsidered
If you like Windows 8, you'll like -- maybe even love -- Windows 8.1 "Blue." But if you're a denizen of the old-fashioned Desktop world without a yearning for touch and/or you don't want your PC to act like a smartphone, Windows 8.1 will disappoint -- big time. InfoWorld's detailed proposal for a new, better Windows 8 -- called Windows Red -- has sparked accolades, criticism, outrage, hundreds of comments, and more than a few very good suggestions. Read More

The TechEd takeaway: Microsoft is betting big on the cloud
Microsoft held a coming-out party of sorts this week to celebrate its transformation from a software company to a services company. Microsoft wants to be known as the best cloud for the enterprise, and the sweeping slate of updates to core products unveiled at TechEd 2013 -- including Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, SQL Server 2014, and Visual Studio 2013 -- are aimed at that vision. Read More

Android antivirus products a big flop, researchers say
Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, but the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina. Read More



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