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	Mozilla beats Apple, Microsoft to Pwn2Own patch punch Mozilla late yesterday patched a critical Firefox vulnerability used by a German researcher to win $10,000 for hacking the open-source browser at last week's Pwn2Own contest. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More! In this Issue Top 10 Smartphone Easter Eggs Screenshots from the iPad Video: The iPad up close 5 Stupidest iPad Apps 10 years after Microsoft vs. DoJ As Windows 7 gains steam, VDI set to rise News podcast: Network World 360 DHS studying global response to Conficker botnet In multi-core era, per-socket pricing faces challenges Turing machines, CAs and the universe Top 10 completely made-up Apple rumors worth rumoring Interesting Data about Data Breaches Podcast: You don't mess with another man's hose WEBCAST: Oracle Identity and Access Governance – What You Need to Know Live Webcast: Wednesday, May 5th at 1pm ET/10 am PT. Oracle presents a timely event featuring the Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, who will provide an overview of the latest technology for identity management. Get guidance on compliance, security, identity management and other topics and participate in a live Q&A. Register Today! Top 10 Smartphone Easter Eggs For the un-initiated, the term Easter eggs is geek parlance for secret gags and goofs buried deep inside software. Google's been laying Easter eggs for years. Now as cell phones have hit mass appeal, perhaps it's no surprise that Easter eggs have snuck into our handhelds. Read More Screenshots from the iPad See exactly what Websites, apps, and settings screens look like on the iPad. Read More Video: The iPad up close Macworld editorial director Jason Snell takes a close look at the new Apple iPad. The device is set to go on sale on April 3, 2010. Read More 5 Stupidest iPad Apps Despite the fact that the iPad doesn't hit the shelves until Saturday, a number of iPad apps are now available in the Apple App Store. Some of the apps appear to have been specifically created for the iPad (such as the Pages word processor -- iTunes Link -- and the official Netflix App), while others are simply scaled-up versions of existing iPhone apps. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Five CIO challenges addressed by better change management This white paper addresses five of the foremost change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and describes how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage. Learn more 10 years after Microsoft vs. DoJ Ten years after losing its antitrust browser battle against the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft continues to dominate some markets, swings and misses in others, and serves as an example of what not to do for competitor Google. Read More As Windows 7 gains steam, VDI set to rise The growing maturity of virtual desktop technologies and customer interest in Windows 7 has the desktop virtualization market on the verge of taking off in 2010. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 An appeals court has refused to rehear the case that ultimately forced Microsoft to remove a feature from Office 2007, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the software maker's most likely next step. Also, IBM is hoping to bring a new crop of tech startups under its corporate wing with a program that gives them access to its software and industry-specific development frameworks. (3:01) Read More DHS studying global response to Conficker botnet One year after the Conficker botnet was front-page news around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is preparing a report looking at the worldwide effort to keep it in check. Read More WHITE PAPER: Neustar Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud Join Neustar and NetworkWorld to learn how to manage your holistic ecosystem effectively and learn five creative strategies for managing the performance challenges inherent in today's world. View Now In multi-core era, per-socket pricing faces challenges The traditional Microsoft per-socket sever pricing scheme will likely be changed as chip makers add more cores to processors. Read More Turing machines, CAs and the universe This week Mark Gibbs follows a rabbit hole into a cellular automaton riddled Wonderland. The universe may never look the same to you …. Read More Top 10 completely made-up Apple rumors worth rumoring Let's face it: Apple rumor-mongering is an art form in decline. Last year, the big rumors were about when Apple would introduce copy/paste on the iPhone. Currently, it's about whether Verizon will get the iPhone and the possibility of multi-tasking in iPhone 4.0 operating system. Read More Interesting Data about Data Breaches In a recent ESG Research survey, we asked security professionals at enterprise organizations (i.e. 1,000 employees or more) whether their organization had suffered a data breach within the last year. Read More Podcast: You don't mess with another man's hose Keith and guest co-host Neal Weinberg discuss iPad-mania, good news on the economic recovery front, why they hate April Fool's Day and the proper way to clean a flooded basement. (28:45) Read More
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