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	Microsoft kills TechNet, but the fate of its software licenses is murky The feast is over for developers, system admins, and other IT pros who've used the TechNet Subscription service to gorge on all-you-can-eat access to Microsoft technologies. The company announced it's ending the TechNet service and directing the community toward alternatives such as the TechNet Evaluation Center, the Microsoft Virtual Academy, and TechNet Forums. But it isn't at all clear if TechNet licenses -- the ones users have already bought 'n paid for -- will live beyond TechNet's demise. Read More WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow Drive More Value from Your IT Assets You can make your life simpler when you automate your entire IT Asset Management (ITAM) lifecycle and Software Asset Management (SAM) in one system of record. You'll also reduce costs, eliminate wasted resources, improve compliance, mitigate security risks, and drive standardization. Read Now! In this Issue Hands-on: The $90 ZTE Open Firefox smartphone Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud AT&T iPad hacker appeals conviction, long sentence Windows 8 finally passes Vista in OS market share WHITE PAPER: SkillSoft Actionable Leadership in the Creative Age The world is changing. Competition is emerging more rapidly. To stay ahead, you need to leverage the power of every individual. Learn key leadership strategies to make an impact at your organization. Learn More Hands-on: The $90 ZTE Open Firefox smartphone After several months of anticipation, the first smartphones based on the Mozilla Firefox operating system are here. Telefónica begins selling the ZTE Open today in Spain as the first step of a global rollout that should see Firefox OS devices available in all the carrier's markets by 2015. Read More Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gears up for the private cloud For the latest update of Oracle Enterprise Manager, the company has taken additional steps to help organizations set up their own private clouds, using Oracle systems, software and even non-Oracle products. "Our goal is to is to allow enterprises to take any [Oracle] platform and offer it as a service," said Sushil Kumar, vice president of product strategy and business development. Read More AT&T iPad hacker appeals conviction, long sentence A U.S. man prosecuted for exposing a weakness in how AT&T handled the personal data of its iPad users filed an appeal on Monday of his conviction and 41-month sentence. Andrew Auernheimer, known as "weev," created an automated tool to extract the names and email addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's servers, which were used by customers to access their accounts. The information was later passed to the online news site Gawker. Read More Windows 8 finally passes Vista in OS market share Microsoft's Windows 8 is now a more popular operating system than the reviled Windows Vista, eliminating a source of embarrassment as Microsoft's latest OS slowly continues to gather steam. According to Net Applications' NetMarketshare tracker, Windows 8 captured 5.10 percent of all desktop systems the firm tracks for the month of June. Vista's market share now stands at 4.62 percent. Of course, both will need a few months (or years) before they pass Windows XP and Windows 7, both of which dipped about half a percentage point's worth of share to finish the month with 44.37 percent and 37.17 percent, respectively. Read More
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