Surface RT tanked, but expect Microsoft's numbers to come out rosy

The future is 'ultramobile': Intel makes the PC persona non grata | New Jersey Supreme Court rules warrants are needed for phone tracking

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Surface RT tanked, but expect Microsoft's numbers to come out rosy
Face it: To Microsoft, the $900 million Surface RT writeoff is chump change. Yesterday's earnings report didn't include any heart-stopping revelations to folks who've been following the saga. But it begs the question of what Microsoft will do next, as PC sales inexorably fall into the abyss -- first for consumers, then for companies. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments

Getting Ahead Managing VoIP and Videoconferencing
Can the move to UC be just another simple technology transition? End users expect these technologies to look, act and behave just as their non-IP predecessors. But for IT teams it brings very real, new requirements. Learn VoIP and video success strategies from Jim Frey, an Enterprise Management Associates analyst. Learn more.

WEBCAST: Telerik

Kendo UI: Modern, Mobile & Lightning-Fast
Join us on July 17th for a live online webcast, and find out how Kendo UI can help you build amazing sites and apps with HTML5. Learn More.

The future is 'ultramobile': Intel makes the PC persona non grata
Although the PC isn't disappearing anytime soon, it may as well be the deranged grandmother locked away within Intel's attic, whose faint screams are ignored in the rooms below. Indeed, Intel's newly minted chief executive, Brian Krzanich, didn't even mention notebooks, let alone the desktop PC, in his prepared remarks during INtel's recently quarterly earnings call. And the only mention he made of the personal computer was a mea culpa: "We were slow to respond to the ultramobile PC trend," he said, admitting that part of Intel's job was to scan for trends and react to them. Read More

New Jersey Supreme Court rules warrants are needed for phone tracking
Cellphone users have a reasonable expectation of privacy of their cellphone location information, and police must obtain a search warrant before accessing that information, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled Thursday. Read More



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