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	1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm More than a year after doomsday reports suggested the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More! In this Issue IBM & the Masters: Technology Sponsorship Unlike Most Others Apple iPad users offered 'antivirus' software Mobile Device Security Woes South Park skewers high tech Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account Privacy groups file FTC complaint on behavioral advertising Will you trust your company to the iPad 3G? Five things you need to tell your parents about computer security E-GUIDE: APC by Schneider Electric 5 Ways to Shrink a Data Center Most data centers can support an average density of 100 to 200 watts per sq. foot. The future of high-density computing – beyond 30 KW - will have to rely on water-based cooling, but is that cost effective? This expert guide discusses the latest energy technologies for today and the future. Read Now. IBM & the Masters: Technology Sponsorship Unlike Most Others When viewers tune in to coverage of the 2010 Masters golf tournament, they will see IBM advertisements on the CBS and ESPN TV broadcasts and the IBM logo on the Masters.com website. Viewers will most likely hear about IBM's vision of a "smarter planet" campaign. (I always look forward to the guy who says "Smarter Stuttgart.") Read More Apple iPad users offered 'antivirus' software Apple iPad users are being offered a security program to scan their new device for vulnerabilities and rogue software should such things emerge as threats. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Mobile Device Security Woes Great article by Tim Greene on endpoint security (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/040110-endpoint-security.html?hpg1=bn). One of Tim's points was with regard to mobile device security. Large organizations now realize that endpoint security (and management) extends beyond PCs to mobile devices like Blackberrys, Droids, iPhones, iPads (author's note: just had to get in an iPad reference today),... Read More South Park skewers high tech Facebook is just the latest high-tech South Park skewering: iPhone, Bill Gates, Star Trek, the Internet all get lampooned Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Improve Productivity by Optimizing your SSL VPN Are you getting all you can from your SSL VPN? Read this whitepaper to find out Learn More Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account Suing your parents isn't just for celebrities anymore--a 16-year-old Arkansas boy is suing his mother for hacking into his Facebook account and allegedly posting slanderous remarks. Read More Privacy groups file FTC complaint on behavioral advertising Three privacy groups have filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about behavioral advertising practices, accusing Google, Yahoo and other advertising vendors of creating a "Wild West" atmosphere with few rules for protecting consumer privacy. Read More Will you trust your company to the iPad 3G? I have been talking to many CIOs in the last two weeks who have expressed a concern that the iPad 3G version will fail and their workers with it. Concerns are growing over the AT&T network with the upcoming release of the 3G version of the iPad. Read More Five things you need to tell your parents about computer security Ever get that tech support call from your parents saying, "My computer is slow all of a sudden" or "I have all sorts of weird things popping up on my screen"? You then troubleshoot the problems only to find out that malware, spyware, viruses or other such nastiness is the culprit. To be sure you eradicate all the bugs you resort to a full format and reinstall of everything thus taking you hours.... Read More
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