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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

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25 Awesome Gadgets for $50 or Less
We scoured the Web for the best deals on 25 gadgets you might actually want to buy. All you have to do is sit back and click through the slideshow. Read More

WEBCAST: Oracle

Live: 2012 Database Management Survey Results
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT Learn how your experience stacks up against your peers and gain insight on strategies to address the most pressing issues as new survey results on managing databases are revealed by Crimson Consulting in this live Webcast. Learn More


WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Experience a Smooth and Swift Backup
Virtually every company, regardless of size or industry, needs data archive capabilities. Datacenter administrators across all industry segments face similar archive challenges. Learn More!

Is Insieme inserting Cisco into storage?
Everyone outside of Cisco and Insieme is still speculating on what the Cisco spin-in is developing to augment its parent's programmable network strategy. Some of the speculation had Insieme building the next-generation Nexus boxes with programmable hooks to a Layer 4-7 controller... Read More
Apple stops password resets after iCloud hack
Apple has told its support staff not to process password change requests that come in via the phones. An Apple customer service representative said that Apple was halting all AppleID password resets by phone. Read More
The Honan Hack Is The Alamo For Two Factor Authentication
By now I hope you have read about the devastating hack of Wired writer Mat Honan. It serves as a chilling example of how much of our lives are in the digital sphere today and what can happen if they keys to that sphere fall into the wrong hands. Reading Honan's story I was of course empathizing with him because of my own nightmare with passwords being hacked. Read More
New Android tablets and the competitive advantage of 'open' chaos
Android is open. Releases are frequent. The source code is available to everyone, even Apple. This gives some pause to developers because they must navigate many Android releases, different API levels and a variety of hardware targets. Planning an IOS software engineering project is comparatively simple with one major software release per year and limited hardware targets. What appears to be chaos... Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

Changing the Competitive Dynamics of the Business
Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality. Register Now

How Mozilla keeps its MySQL database tidy
Keeping track of a MySQL databases may have just gotten easier for Mozilla after installing a database management tool from ScaleBase. Read More
Why would tech support call you? Don't fall for phishing
Well, most of the time, we would not call you. But even though support teams rarely make calls to customers, there has been a rise in a social engineering attack where someone impersonating support staff calls and informs the IT department that there is a bug in such-and-such a system. Even though customers know they don't normally receive calls from support, they are willing to provide impersonators... Read More
Shylock malware injects rogue phone numbers in online banking websites
New configurations of the Shylock financial malware inject attacker-controlled phone numbers into the contact pages of online banking websites, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Read More
No bomb powerful enough to destroy an on-rushing asteroid, sorry Bruce Willis
Maybe it's the doom predictions some folks are fearing about the end of the Mayan calendar this year or maybe these guys are obsessed with old Bruce Willis movies. Either way a class of physics students from the University of Leicester decided to evaluate whether or not the premise of Willis' 1998 "Armageddon" movie -- where a group of oil drillers is sent by NASA to detonate nucle Read More

WEBCAST: SAP

Automate Your Partners for Efficient E-Business
Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess your B2B approach. Learn More

Beyond Basic Mobile Management
In a 2010, ESG Research asked 174 enterprise IT professionals whether their organizations were developing or planned to develop their own mobile applications. The findings were as follows: Read More
Cisco driven start-up heads for SDNs
A start-up that bases its product line and business model on software-defied networking concepts is emerging from stealth mode. Read More
How iOS growth underscores Google's brilliant Android strategy
After shipping 24 million iPhones and 17 million iPads, iOS devices accounted for more than 70% ($26 Billion) of Apple's $35 billion third-quarter 2012 sales. Comparatively, Android is deployed at a rate of about 1 million units a day, increasing worldwide market share by 90 million per calendar quarter. This barely affects Google's financial performance, but at the same time ensures its core advertising... Read More
Acer criticizes Microsoft for Surface, but has nothing but Windows 8
It was only a matter of time before a Microsoft hardware partner got mad enough to say publicly what they were grumbling about in the executive suites. However, Acer's threats ring hollow when weighed against the facts. Taiwan hardware maker Acer, which also owns Gateway, is the first to complain about Microsoft going into the hardware business with its Surface tablet, something Microsoft knew would... Read More
How to watch Internet TV across borders
Living in the U.S., one of my greatest regrets is that I can't watch BBC video with iPlayer . Read More



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