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	Researcher warns of impending PDF attack wave A design flaw in Adobe's popular PDF format will quickly be exploited by hackers to install financial malware on users' computers, a security company argued today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Leverage the Cloud to Slash Branch Network Costs Replicating the corporate network, even in the form-factor of a Branch Office in a Box, is simply not cost-effective. Aruba's cloud-based Virtual Branch Networking solution rightsizes the cost of delivering an enterprise class network to all your users whether they are in the branch, at home, or on the road. Register for this webinar to learn more. In this Issue Java founder James Gosling leaves Oracle Teleflirtation: The latest hot way to hook up FCC Pursues Broadband Agenda In Spite Of Legal Setback IE8 has blocked over 560 million malware sites: how many were legit? 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Read More Teleflirtation: The latest hot way to hook up The realistic audio-visual atmosphere of telepresence combined with off-channel instant messaging is giving rise to a new social phenomenon dubbed teleflirtation. Read More FCC Pursues Broadband Agenda In Spite Of Legal Setback Net neutrality and the National Broadband Plan are both alive and well. Contrary to the media frenzy and expert punditry in the wake of a US district court decision rejecting attempts by the FCC to impose its will on Comcast, there were no broader implications regarding the general authority of the FCC. Read More WHITE PAPER: ManageEngine Don't Let Application Delays Affect Your Business End-users would typically wait between 4 to 6 seconds for a page to open before they abandon a session and move on to the next website in their search. Learn More IE8 has blocked over 560 million malware sites: how many were legit? Since its launch, Internet Explorer 8 has blocked access to over 560 million sites that it determined were serving malware, or about 3 million blocks per day, said Brandon LeBlanc in a blog post on Friday. However, it is unclear how many of those sites were legitimate, duped into serving malware laced ads, sent to them from their ad network. Read More Apple Bites the Hand That Feeds It with New App Rules Apple has not been shy about publicizing its culture war with Adobe over the use of Flash on the iPhone or iPad platforms. Yesterday, Apple took the battle to a new level, though, by changing the legalese for the App Store to prohibit any apps not built solely on Apple's proprietary Objective-C programming language. Read More Apple reveals the new iPhone OS 4.0 Apple previewed its new updated operating system for the iPhone. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Geolocation and Application Delivery Both business and technical stakeholders will find value and a broad range of uses for the highly accurate data available from a trusted third-party geolocation provider, especially when the data is integrated into a Unified Application and Data Delivery platform. This Whitepaper has all the details. Read More! AT&T Overhauls Image: Is it Afraid of the Verizon iPhone? AT&T, everybody's favorite whipping boy, is attempting to overhaul its image as a "lifestyle company" and apply -- gasp! -- a positive attitude in its advertising. Read More Pretentious iPad Prattling from Keith Keith and guest co-host Denise Dubie chat about what's next for the FCC in the net neutrality debate, whether there's a cure for iPad Fever, and whether they've ever snooped on a significant other's phone, e-mail or text messages. (30:05) Read More Is Microsoft's cloud strategy really that special? Microsoft executives continue to evangelize the cloud strategy laid out by CEO Steve Ballmer in a March 4 presentation at the University of Washington's Seattle campus. This past week at SaaScon 2010 in Santa Clara, Calif., Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, explored each of Ballmer's five tenets of cloud computing in more detail. Read More Could designer bras be a natural fit for crowdsourcing? With last week's launch of Fashion Stake, a crowdsource fashion company, I become even more convinced that crowdsourcing is not getting the attention it deserves. There are a number of startups implementing crowdsourcing in new ways and in new markets. Read More
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