Microsoft's app gap: Just 54 percent of the Top 100 apps are on Windows 8

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	Microsoft's app gap: Just 54 percent of the Top 100 apps are on Windows 8 Microsoft's Windows 8 app ecosystem badly needs a jolt to make it competitive with iOS and Android on tablets, an analyst said today.And it's looking like that won't happen anytime soon. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry Five answers to top BYOD Challenges Mobility has revolutionized how we do business. Managing mobility and BYOD means knowing how to navigate changing operating systems, changing platforms and changing hardware to reap benefits like improved productivity, agility, growth and better customer service. Here are five steps for choosing an MDM solution for today -- and tomorrow. Learn More In this Issue Google Chrome exposes user passwords: Here's how to prevent it SSD shipments skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013 Facebook launches Graph Search, acknowledges privacy concerns Ciena to test OpenFlow SDN WAN WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity Identity Management: Modernizing Enterprise Access Control Identity management is the single most important aspect of your organization's security profile. If someone attempts to gain unauthorized access to information or systems, a good identity system will leave an audit trail for you to follow. Learn More Google Chrome exposes user passwords: Here's how to prevent it Google is taking some serious heat for the way Chrome can reveal all your saved passwords to anyone with access to your computer. Yet Google has defended the move, with Chrome's security tech lead arguing that further password protection measures would only provide a "false sense of security." The issue has to do with the way Chrome stores passwords that the user has decided to save. All of these passwords are the listed in chrome://settings/passwords. Clicking on a password in this list, and then clicking the "Show" button, exposes the password in plain text. Read More   SSD shipments skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013 Deployments in thin-and-light notebooks and hybrid PC tablets resulted in a huge boost in shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) in the first quarter of 2013, according to a report from the market-research firm IHS. IHS reports that SSD shipments more than tripled in the January-to-March 2013 timeframe, compared to the same period in 2012. Read More   Facebook launches Graph Search, acknowledges privacy concerns Facebook is rolling out Graph Search, its newfangled social search engine, to everyone who uses the U.S. English language, the company announced Wednesday. Graph Search provides a way for users to search for various topics and interests across the site based on their existing connections and friends. Graph Search lets users submit their queries in plain English, so people can search for things like, "Friends who live in my city," or "Hotels in San Francisco visited by my friends," or even, "Music liked by people who like the music that I like," Facebook notes. Read More   Ciena to test OpenFlow SDN WAN Ciena this week said it is partnering with a handful of research networks to test a multilayer, software-defined WAN. Read More
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