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	iPad 2: Don't take it apart, or risk cracked glass Apple's iPad 2 tablet, which became available Friday, boasts a big battery, tiny speakers, an ample 512MB of RAM and a glass front that's tricky for tinkerers to take off. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell The Business Case for Security Information Management It is a mistake to assume that information security is solely a technical problem left for IT to solve. This guide is a non-technical discussion of security information management. Learn more. In this Issue Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing 5 signs that your techies are being poached Power and transport trouble Japanese IT makers after quake Japan's phone networks remain severely disrupted Japan's Internet largely intact after earthquake, tsunami Happy Pi Day: Many more than 3.14... pictures of cool Pi creations Should Cisco Sell? Tech We Took From Science Fiction New attacks leverage unpatched IE flaw, Microsoft warns The cloud's Achilles' Heel is that it's uninsurable Microsoft puts hand on Office XP plug, ready to pull Bing-powered searches rise as Google loses share WHITE PAPER: CA Forrester: The Emergence of Service Assurance Forrester interviewed more than 150 IT professionals to understand the fundamental issues around managing the performance of business application and business services and their underlying transactions. Read their key findings and expert recommendations. Read Now Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing The first rule of using social networking as a marketing tool should be: Know when to do it and when not to do it. The aftermath of an unfathomable natural disaster should be Example No. 1 of when not to do it. Read More 5 signs that your techies are being poached With IT hiring on the rise, CIOs need to worry about an issue that hasn't cropped up in years: how to prevent their most talented employees from being poached by rivals. Read More Power and transport trouble Japanese IT makers after quake Japan's major electronics companies took stock of their problems on Monday, as the country struggles to come to terms with the scale of devastation following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. Read More Japan's phone networks remain severely disrupted More than a day after a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave slammed Japan, the country's telecommunications services remain severely disrupted. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation Companies running legacy job scheduling products suffer from higher costs, inefficient use of resources, and greater IT complexity, according to independent analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates. Read their findings, and see why consolidating on a single, comprehensive workload automation solution is an easy win for IT and the business. Learn More Now! Japan's Internet largely intact after earthquake, tsunami Japan's Internet infrastructure has remained surprisingly unaffected by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to Internet monitoring firm Renesys. Read More Happy Pi Day: Many more than 3.14... pictures of cool Pi creations March 14 is Pi Day (3.14, get it?), and to celebrate the magical and mesmerizing mathematical constant, I've collected a dozen very special Pi tributes from around the Web (here's a brief history of Pi, to boot). Read More Should Cisco Sell? Should Cisco sell off some operations after setting the standard for years in acquiring and successfully assimilating companies into its enterprise? That's the question Reuters asked in a recent article reviewing the company's financial challenges of late. Read More Tech We Took From Science Fiction Even though we're still waiting for flying cars, we're already living in the future predicted by science fiction. Here are a few tech prophecies from sci-fi films, books, and TV shows that became reality. Read More WEBCAST: CA Fast-track Your Success with Private Clouds In this webcast you will learn how to kick-start private cloud initiatives while addressing today's concerns: getting applications to market quickly while handling the requirements around performance and scalability, uncompromised security, application portability and interoperability with public clouds. Learn More New attacks leverage unpatched IE flaw, Microsoft warns An Internet Explorer flaw made public by a Google security researcher two months ago is now being used in online attacks. Read More The cloud's Achilles' Heel is that it's uninsurable While companies like Microsoft were touting the growth and benefits of cloud computing at the recent Cloud Connect conference here in Silicon Valley, one speaker gave what he called his "wet blanket" presentation warning of a big hole in the cloud business model. Read More Microsoft puts hand on Office XP plug, ready to pull Microsoft today reminded customers that it will pull the support plug for the aged Office XP in July. Read More Bing-powered searches rise as Google loses share Microsoft's Bing search engine is on the rise, while Google's still-dominant market share has dropped to about two-thirds of all U.S. searches. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Google Chrome 10 Google has released the stable version of Chrome 10 and users are now being automatically updated. As always, Chrome's new features focus on security, speed and simplicity, with greater JavaScript performance, sandboxing technology for Adobe Flash, password encryption and an easier-to-use settings interface. Here's a look at the new features. MOST-READ STORIES Researchers develop more powerful biofuel alternative Google still scrambling to recover from DroidDream Android attack Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... Harvard computer scientist Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award The eight most important commands on Cisco ASA security appliance VMware unleashes virtual desktops for Apple iPad Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces Botnets, cloud computing power may be fueling attacks against VoIP Most Android, iPhone apps violate open source rules
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