Lenovo profit up 36 percent on smartphone, tablet demand

Microsoft adds real-time joint editing to Office Web Apps Silk Road online drug marketplace resurfaces IT News Daily November 07, 2013 Share this email Lenovo profit up 36 percent on smartphone, tablet demand Chinese PC maker Lenovo posted a 36 percent year-over-year growth in its net profit in the third quarter, with demand for the company's smartphones and tablets continuing to outpace shipments for its PC products. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Microsoft adds real-time joint editing to Office Web Apps 2. Silk Road online drug marketplace resurfaces 3. Bruce Schneier wants to make surveillance costly again 4. Biz Stone's Jelly app 'very close' to launching, will be free for iOS and Android 5. Wi-Fi mobile data provider Karma moving to Sprint's LTE network 6. Google dumps Windows Vista support from Google Apps WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Storage and Backup The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures. Read Now Microsoft adds real-time joint editing to Office Web Apps Office Web Apps, the browser-based, pared-down version of the Microsoft suite, now lets people co-edit documents in real time, a capability its main rival Google Docs has had for more than two years. READ MORE Silk Road online drug marketplace resurfaces The Silk Road online marketplace has resurfaced about a month after U.S. officials shut down the website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity service, and arrested among others a man named Ross William Ulbricht, who was alleged to be the site's owner and operator. READ MORE Bruce Schneier wants to make surveillance costly again The ongoing revelations of governmental electronic spying point to a problem larger than National Security Agency malfeasance, or even of security weaknesses. Rather the controversy arising from Edward Snowden's leaked documents suggest we face unresolved issues around data ownership, argued security expert Bruce Schneier. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: CDW 8 Steps to an effective Mobile Device Policy It's no secret that mobile devices and applications are flooding into organizations of all types and sizes. Technology research firm Gartner predicts that by 2016, 40 percent of the global workforce will be mobile, with 67 percent of workers using smartphones. Read Now Biz Stone's Jelly app 'very close' to launching, will be free for iOS and Android Some new details have emerged about Jelly, the mysterious startup from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: The company's app is "very close" to launching, and will be available for free on iOS and Android-based devices, Stone recently said. READ MORE Wi-Fi mobile data provider Karma moving to Sprint's LTE network Karma, the startup that offers pay-as-you-go mobile data through a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, will catch up with the 4G world next year by moving to LTE. READ MORE Google dumps Windows Vista support from Google Apps Google's policy of discontinuing support for aging versions of Internet Explorer will nearly cut out businesses and consumers who run Google Apps on Windows Vista. 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. **