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	Apple, Microsoft to duel in '12 with OS upgrades This year is shaping up as a repeat of 2009, when Microsoft and Apple last faced off with rival operating system upgrades, analysts said today. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level Live Date and Time: November 29, 2011 - 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST By attending this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. Register Now In this Issue Privacy tussle brews over social media monitoring SSDs have a 'bleak' future, researchers say Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion Apple's Mountain Lion shows personal cloud trumps personal computer Jonny Evans: Apple unleashes iOS-loving OS X Mountain Lion preview for Macs From CIO: 6 Tips to Conquer Facebook Timeline Big data helps drive math Ph.D.s to IBM Richi Jennings: Lies, damn lies and Microsoft spam-filter stats Iomega launches desktop, rack-mountable NAS line Google looks for fix to Chromebook Wi-Fi 'disconnect bugs' DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks Waledac malware returns after two years with password-stealing capabilities Whitman brings the swagger back to HP In the cloud, a data breach is only as bad as your contract Rackspace buys Sharepoint consultancy Jonny Evans: Apple promises the privacy it says we should have had before RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! Privacy tussle brews over social media monitoring A major tussle is emerging in the debate over how government agencies can gather and use information posted publicly on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Read More SSDs have a 'bleak' future, researchers say Researchers at UC San Diego and Microsoft found that as NAND flash densities increase, read and write latency as well as errors grow, giving SSD a finite life as a technology. Read More Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? On Thursday Apple announced that it will release a new version of OS X--Mountain Lion--this summer, just a year after the release of OS X Lion. Read More Apple's Mountain Lion shows personal cloud trumps personal computer In a move that surprised many, Apple today seeded developers with a preview of Mac OS X 10.8, dubbed "Mountain Lion," and said it would offer the upgrade to customers this summer. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple unleashes iOS-loving OS X Mountain Lion preview for Macs Apple has introduced a developer preview of the next major version of OS X, 'Mountain Lion'. Set to launch late summer 2012, the new OS signifies another huge step toward bringing iOS and OS X together, closing the gap between mobile devices and Macs in the post-PC age. Read More From CIO: 6 Tips to Conquer Facebook Timeline From privacy settings to customization and more, here are six tips to set you on the right path with Facebook Timeline. Read More Big data helps drive math Ph.D.s to IBM Big data, and the need to analyze data that's collected from every interface and sensor imaginable, is increasing the demand for people with statistical and mathematics backgrounds. Read More Richi Jennings: Lies, damn lies and Microsoft spam-filter stats Microsoft is crowing about a study that it says shows Hotmail having better spam filtering than Gmail or Yahoo. Really? If that's the case, then there's been a huge turnaround in Hotmail's spam-filtering accuracy. Is there any Devil in the detail? Of course there is, outlined here in The Long View... INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Scale capacity on demand? Not with F5. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 5x capacity on-demand. No new hardware. Shift up to the cloud. Get investment protection and elasticity for your network with NetScaler Pay-as-You-Grow. Simple, software-based licensing. The capacity you need, when you need it. Click to continue Iomega launches desktop, rack-mountable NAS line Iomega introduced a new line of arrays that can utilize either high-capacity SATA drives or solid state drives, offers up to 36TB of capacity and has web-based management features. Read More Google looks for fix to Chromebook Wi-Fi 'disconnect bugs' Google is making changes to its Chrome OS to reduce the number of times that Chromebooks drop their connections to Wi-Fi networks, an issue some users have complained about for months. Read More DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks Cybercriminals have started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against networks that transmit data over IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), according to a report published recently by DDoS mitigation vendor Arbor Networks. Read More Waledac malware returns after two years with password-stealing capabilities A new version of the Waledac malware has been spotted on the Internet, but unlike previous variants, which were mainly used for spamming purposes, this one steals various log-in credentials and BitCoins, a type of virtual currency. Read More Whitman brings the swagger back to HP After a tumultuous year for Hewlett-Packard Co., new CEO Meg Whitman brought the vendor back to its roots and delivered the messages channel partners wanted to hear in her keynote at the global partner conference Wednesday. Read More In the cloud, a data breach is only as bad as your contract Use your contract to protect your company's interests before a breach occurs. Read More Rackspace buys Sharepoint consultancy Cloud services company Rackspace has purchased SharePoint911, a consulting firm for SharePoint users. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple promises the privacy it says we should have had before Apple has said it will stop apps sharing your personal contact data without your permission, saying this shouldn't have been happening in the first place. But is the company truly prepared to respect user privacy in the Post PC age? Read More
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