Acer CEO resigns as company plans restructuring and layoffs

Earthshaking news! Milky Way may hold billions of Earth-like planets Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts IT News Daily November 05, 2013 Share this email Acer CEO resigns as company plans restructuring and layoffs Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's sagging fortunes. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Earthshaking news! Milky Way may hold billions of Earth-like planets 2. Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts 3. Amazon woos mobile developers with free analytics and testing tools 4. Microsoft waves more security pros into the pool for $100K bounties 5. Microsoft offers industry templates, special pricing for Dynamics CRM 6. Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Embracing BYOD Through Secure App and Data Delivery The proliferation of personal devices in the workplace is creating huge challenges for IT. To meet the challenge, go beyond traditional point solutions. Discover how you can secure and manage devices, apps and data with enterprise mobility management. Download the white paper. Learn More Earthshaking news! Milky Way may hold billions of Earth-like planets Thanks to NASA's now-crippled Kepler space telescope, astronomers say they now know there are tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets in the Milky Way galaxy. READ MORE Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts The equipment is big and expensive, with the research costs at almost US$500,000. But by just using retail components, Chinese professor Chi Nan has built her own Li-Fi wireless system that can use LED lights to send and receive Internet data. READ MORE Amazon woos mobile developers with free analytics and testing tools Mobile developers will be able to track usage of their Android and iOS applications, as well as experiment with interface improvements, with two free services from Amazon. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: CDW The Power of PaaS At a time when budgets are especially tight, organizations may find it hard to justify investments in the latest programming tools and testing platforms. Platform as a service (PaaS) solutions provide a viable option Read Now Microsoft waves more security pros into the pool for $100K bounties Microsoft on Monday expanded its $100,000 bounty program, and will accept reports of in-the-wild attacks that demonstrate new techniques of bypassing Windows' anti-exploit technologies. READ MORE Microsoft offers industry templates, special pricing for Dynamics CRM Microsoft is hoping to differentiate its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software from the likes of Salesforce.com with a new set of 18 industry templates that fit the application to verticals including sports management, health care and more specialized areas such as prison inmate data. READ MORE Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data Microsoft is offering Windows Azure customers the facility of transferring their data offline to and from Azure storage accounts using hard disk drives. READ MORE WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Datacenter Transformation and Business Innovation Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT Join this Live InfoWorld webinar to discuss why enterprise CIOs and IT professionals are changing their people, processes and technologies in order to stay competitive. Learn More. Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2013 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **