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	Dell loses 3PAR bidding war to HP Dell on Thursday said it would not increase its most recent proposal to acquire virtualized storage vendor 3PAR, paving the path for rival Hewlett-Packard to acquire the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router Looking for routers that offer the scalability to extend your reach with cost-effective, feature-rich platforms that consolidate and deliver the business, residential and mobile services your customers demand? For a limited time, introductory kits are available for the newest additions to the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR portfolio. Read Now In this Issue Fake antivirus software using ransom threats Buzzblog: Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors Apple's iOS beats Android 6:1 on the Web VMware customers cast a wary glance at Microsoft's virtualization tools Cisco buys wireless smart grid company Buzzblog: Today's 90210 babble brings back memories of Y2K Open Source: No one is working for free Microsoft finalizes Windows Phone 7 code for fall release Twitter for iPad is finally here Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Today! Fake antivirus software using ransom threats Fake antivirus programs appear to be adopting some of the money-raising tactics of more threatening ransom malware, security company Fortinet's latest threat report has found. Read More Buzzblog: Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors If you're still holding on to an old Fedora CD, T-shirt, logo-emblazoned mouse pad -- or pretty much anything bearing the trademark -- Red Hat would appreciate your assistance in asserting the Fedora community's legal rights. "Old" for this purpose is pre-Jan. 30, 2007. Read More Apple's iOS beats Android 6:1 on the Web Apple's iOS mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Android's, a Web measurement company said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Dynamic Data Center Infrastructure Strategies Discover how it will help organizations extend lossless and deterministic Fibre Channel-like reliability, network services and performance to their traditional Ethernet networks. Read now! VMware customers cast a wary glance at Microsoft's virtualization tools VMware customers attending VMworld are taking a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software, but say it would be problematic to start over after investing heavily in VMware. Read More Cisco buys wireless smart grid company Cisco this week said it will acquire Arch Rock Corporation, a privately held developer of IP-based wireless network technology for smart grids. Read More Buzzblog: Today's 90210 babble brings back memories of Y2K The Tubes are all atwitter today with giggly references to the sequence of numbers 90210. And if the why isn't immediately evident, think date: Sept. 2, 2010. Now think back to the '90s television show "Beverly Hills 90210." Yes, indeed, the Internet is easily amused. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Get your job scheduler out of the 90's Learn how companies that switched from legacy job schedulers to modern enterprise workload automation with BMC Software have seen significant business benefits. Read more. Open Source: No one is working for free People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It's dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free, or why developers are working for free. It can likewise lead to a management backlash of not contributing to FOSS projects because some think their developers are working on FOSS instead of their own work. Read More Microsoft finalizes Windows Phone 7 code for fall release Microsoft announced that the code base for Windows Phone 7 1.0 has been finalized. The software has been "released to manufacturing," meaning that this version is the one handset makers will deploy on the first devices to feature the radically redesigned mobile OS. Read More Twitter for iPad is finally here It's official: After months in the dark, dank caves of rumor and speculation, the official Twitter app for the iPad has now emerged into bright, friendly light of the App Store. Read More Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones Confidela's WatchDox is adding support for mobile platforms, starting with Android 2.2. Users can access selected, protected documents. But they can be restricted in being able to forward, print, or copy them. It uses an encrypted version of Flash to display documents, but a native version is being tested now for iOS devices like the iPhone. Read More
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