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	Google patches Chrome days before hacking contest Google has patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome, including one that earned its finder the first $1,337 check from the company's new bug bounty program. Read More WHITE PAPER: 3COM Building Mission-Critical Data Centers The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation and core switching has turned into an operational nightmare. However, an IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework) based network can extend the control plane across multiple active switches, increasing resiliency and reducing complexity. Learn More. In this Issue Car Tech: Coolest New Systems on Four Wheels Iron Geek Triathlon: The Video Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises Novell's Pulse enterprise 2.0 suite goes beta next week News podcast: Network World 360 Apple files mobile social networking patent request Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash A quarter of teens have tried hacking Is this the year the proprietary CMS dies? WEBCAST: HyTrust 8 Tips for Virtualization Under Control Examine 8 tips that will show you how to virtualize more critical workloads with confidence. From security planning and policy management to automation and access controls, get expert advice on how to build a more secure virtual infrastructure to accelerate the virtualization of business-critical applications. Learn More! Car Tech: Coolest New Systems on Four Wheels Automakers big and small are building computer systems into their cars to make driving safer, smarter and greener. Read More Iron Geek Triathlon: The Video Yes, we went through with it. As part of the fun at South by Southwest Interactive 2010 in Austin, Texas, a bunch of us created the first annual "Iron Geek Triathlon", a series of three competitive events aimed at crowning the true geek champion. Watch on. Read More Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises Windows architect Dave Probert sees doing away of the OS kernel altogether, in favor of the hypervisor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software Virtualization and Disaster Recovery The need to protect virtualized systems is paramount but organizations may not understand how vulnerable they are to disaster. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of protecting virtualized workloads and how Double-Take Software's solutions can help. Read Now. Novell's Pulse enterprise 2.0 suite goes beta next week Novell is ready to begin beta testing its Pulse enterprise social-networking and collaboration suite. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein said yesterday that if Palm's WebOS products had gone on sale at Verizon before Motorola's Droid, the company's fortunes today would be very different. Also, Vodafone said today malware-tainted memory cards may have ended up on as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones, a greater number than first suspected. (2:12) Read More Apple files mobile social networking patent request A recently disclosed patent request suggests Apple may be working on a mobile social networking application that would presumably let iPhone users form ad-hoc groups based on their locations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Arcsight Combating Fraud & Data Theft Discover scalable, minimally intrusive, log-based monitoring solutions optimized to the monitoring challenges unique to financial institutions. Learn More Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash Execs at OSBC speak of a symbiotic relationship between the HTML5 standard and their proprietary plug-ins for Web applications. Read More A quarter of teens have tried hacking A quarter of teens have attempted to hack into other people's online accounts, says Tufin Technologies. Read More Is this the year the proprietary CMS dies? To listen to folks at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival, the proprietary Content Management System is on its deathbed. And it may well be not too much of a stretch to believe that's the case. Read More
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