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US Senate moves toward Internet sales tax vote

Google's revenue rises 31 percent, nudged by advertising gains

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April 19, 2013

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User picks: 7 hot iPad apps for business

From Web conferencing to to-do lists, a growing legion of business apps built for the mobile workforce are finding favor with iPad devotees

Issue highlights

1. US Senate moves toward Internet sales tax vote

2. Google's revenue rises 31 percent, nudged by advertising gains

3. IBM's revenue deflated in 2013's first quarter

4. Microsoft Q3 earnings and revenue up, as all divisions make gains

5. Samsung fights dirty with misleading claims against HTC – who may have replied in kind

6. Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email'

7. Researchers find malware targeting online stock trading software

8. When open source competitors work together, we all win

9. Android and Facebook work together on Home, not competitively

10. U.S. firms say H-1B restrictions may help them

11. Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack

12. Behold! An iPad saves a man's face by taking one for the team

13. Samsung Galaxy S4's Coolest New Features

14. Wipro's IT services business posts slow growth in difficult market

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US Senate moves toward Internet sales tax vote

The U.S. Senate has moved toward a vote to impose sales tax on most Internet purchases, with lawmakers likely to vote to close debate on legislation next week. READ MORE

Google's revenue rises 31 percent, nudged by advertising gains

Google's first-quarter revenue rose by 31 percent to about $14 billion, driven by strong gains within the company's advertising business. READ MORE

IBM's revenue deflated in 2013's first quarter

Unable to close a number of large mainframe and software deals by the end of the quarter, IBM has reported a 5 percent decline in revenue to US$23.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013. READ MORE

Microsoft Q3 earnings and revenue up, as all divisions make gains

Microsoft increased revenue across all its divisions in its third fiscal quarter, achieving an almost 20 percent revenue increase year on year. READ MORE

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Samsung fights dirty with misleading claims against HTC – who may have replied in kind

Embarrassed Samsung officials were forced to apologize to rival HTC for a sneaky PR campaign that involved paying off Taiwanese students to write negative reviews of the latter company's products. In related news, I'm looking for a Korean and Mandarin translation of the word "astroturf." READ MORE

Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email'

Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion. READ MORE

Researchers find malware targeting online stock trading software

Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations company Groub-IB have recently identified a new piece of malware designed to steal login credentials from specialized software used to trade stocks and other securities online. READ MORE

When open source competitors work together, we all win

Open Source software is great. On that, I am fairly confident, we can all agree. The ability to obtain and modify the source code to the software that you rely upon...well, it's a major win. But there's something even better than access to the source code itself: seeing Open Source project teams, of what seem like competing tools, work together to make everyone's lives better. That is exactly what... READ MORE

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Android and Facebook work together on Home, not competitively

The notion that Facebook Home would smother Android and interfere with Google's services is completely unfounded. Gmail notifications pop through Home's Coverfeed, Google's notifications appear normally with a downward swipe, and Google Now can be accessed by pressing and holding the Home button. READ MORE

U.S. firms say H-1B restrictions may help them

IT support services firm Caleris has this message on its homepage, "Outsource to Iowa. Not India," against a picture of a corn field and farm houses. READ MORE

Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack

Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database. READ MORE

Behold! An iPad saves a man's face by taking one for the team

When it comes to materials, Apple spares no expense when it comes to its products. That said, thankfully the man in the video below was using an iPad and not some knock off tablet. What you see below is rather astonishing. A man is at a softball game in Iowa, casually taking photos with his iPad. Suddenly, a foul ball is headed right at him and knocks the iPad clean out of his hands. If the iPad wasn't... READ MORE

Samsung Galaxy S4's Coolest New Features

All but one of the "Big Four" U.S. wireless carriers this week announced plans to release the much-anticipated, Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone before the end of April, along with a few additional smaller carriers. (Read GS4 pricing and release details for U.S. carriers here.) READ MORE

Wipro's IT services business posts slow growth in difficult market

Indian outsourcer Wipro reported slow revenue growth in its IT services business, reflecting a continued volatility in the outsourcing market. READ MORE

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Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business

DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More.

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