Windows 8 beta will debut Feb. 29

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	Microsoft to launch Windows 8 beta Feb. 29 Microsoft had promised that it would distribute a public beta -- the company used the label "Consumer Preview" instead -- in "late February." Wednesday, Feb. 29 is the last day of the month. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2012 New at IT Roadmap Chicago - "Your IT Career Roadmap" Session This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Chicago for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue In this Issue Oracle buying Taleo for $1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP Developers, climb aboard the 'app economy' gravy train Google to pay users to track their movements online Four crazy tech ideas from Google's Solve for X project RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Introducing Amazon DynamoDB Need a fast, scalable database? Try Amazon DynamoDB - the always fast, zero administration, internet-scale database service. Get details Oracle buying Taleo for $1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP Oracle's purchase of the loud-based talent management and employee recruitment software firm comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for $3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close. Read More Developers, climb aboard the 'app economy' gravy train Demand for iPad, iPhone, and Android apps has created nearly half a million jobs for developers of mobile and social apps. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: 1. Updated KVM hypervisor; 2. Industry-leading performance and scalability levels; 3. A power-user portal that lets you provision virtual machines, define templates, and administer your environments; 4.New multi-level administrative capabilities, improving product functionality for very large deployments Learn more Google to pay users to track their movements online Google is asking users to add an extension to the Chrome browser that will share their Web-browsing activity with the company. In exchange, users will receive a $5 Amazon gift when they sign up and additional $5 gift card values for every three months they continue to share. Read More Four crazy tech ideas from Google's Solve for X project In a series of lectures about radical new technology posted on the Google Solve for X page, several entrepreneurs and academics have outlined ideas for technology that seemingly come straight out of science fiction movies. Read More
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