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	Admin who kept SF network passwords found guilty Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. Read More E-GUIDE: BlackBerry Expert Guide: Crafting a Secure Mobility Strategy Securing mobile data in transit and at rest is a top IT concern. This eGuide offers expert advice on simplifying management and security of smartphones, improved fail-over for DR and control of enterprise application downloads and permissions. Read now and download a free license of BlackBerry Enterprise Express to manage up to 75 users. Read Now. In this Issue Microsoft gets HTC to pay royalties for Android New Storm worm may not last long Motorola Droid Still Leading the Android Pack McAfee Debacle Shows Why Malware Defense Must Evolve Data breaches in U.S. cost more News podcast: Network World 360 ICANN approves first four internationalized country domains Los Angeles chooses Google Apps over Microsoft Final tally: IT lost 250,000 jobs last year Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan FAA close to setting up commercial spaceflight centers WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Minimize Datacenter Costs with Server Offload This technical guide helps you learn how to reduce your server costs up to 60%. You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More! Microsoft gets HTC to pay royalties for Android Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it would be collecting royalties from HTC for its intellectual property used in Android phones. This marks Microsoft's first public statement that singles out Android particularly as an offender. Microsoft is not just lumping in Android as part of its broader claims against Linux generally, sources say. Read More New Storm worm may not last long A new variant of the Storm worm has emerged, but it does not appear to be as well-designed as its older relative, according to computer security researchers. Read More Motorola Droid Still Leading the Android Pack It may no longer be the hot phone du jour, but Motorola's Droid appears to still be leading the way when it comes to Android devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! McAfee Debacle Shows Why Malware Defense Must Evolve Last week a flawed DAT file from McAfee led to false positives crashing Windows XP systems and leading to a massive cleanup effort. It would be very easy to simply point the finger at McAfee, terminate the employment of a scapegoat security engineer or two, and continue on with the status quo, however the whole incident is an illustration of why the anti-malware industry -- not just McAfee -- need to embrace the U.S. Marines mantra to improvise, adapt, and overcome. Read More Data breaches in U.S. cost more The average cost to an organization of a data breach in the United States is higher than in four other countries where data-breach costs were compared, specifically Australia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, according to a Ponemon Institute report published Wednesday. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 McAfee announced it would offer business customers affected by last week's flawed update a free one-year subscription to its automated security assessment service. Also, Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy told an overflow crowd at Interop that Session Initiation Protocol will remain the driver of innovation in unified communications for the next decade, putting it on part with TCP/IP as a networking game changer. (5:01) Read More WHITE PAPER: MainSoft Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops The paper details best practices for measuring the impact that email integration with SharePoint has on user adoption, and reviews IT options for Lotus Notes shops that want to integrate email with SharePoint - including a migration to Outlook and Exchange and a Notes-SharePoint coexistence strategy. Learn More ICANN approves first four internationalized country domains ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first four country-code domain names written in non-Latin script, it announced Tuesday. Read More Los Angeles chooses Google Apps over Microsoft The City of Los Angeles government is deploying Google Apps to alleviate three problems: a crushing budget deficit, IT staff shortage and widespread dissatisfaction with the current office software system. Read More Final tally: IT lost 250,000 jobs last year The U.S. tech industry lost about 250,000 jobs last year, about 4% of its total workforce, but is seeing signs of a hiring turnaround, particularly in software services, according to TechAmerica, an industry group. Read More Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan Tom Noonan embraces life after IBM with JouleX, a green IT company. Read More FAA close to setting up commercial spaceflight centers The FAA this week took a step closer to setting up a central hub for the development of key commercial space transportation technologies. Read More
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