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	Microsoft counters Gmail with Hotmail overhaul Microsoft is overhauling Windows Live Hotmail with new online editing capabilities for Office documents and more than two dozen other enhancements for business and home users. Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Now. In this Issue Tablets, real and rumored I could license you to use this software, but then I'd have to kill you Windows 7 helps Microsoft hit record customer satisfaction score FTC asked to investigate Google Wi-Fi 'snooping' Skype worm no cause for panic, says expert London to get full wi-fi coverage by 2012 Olympics Sun's stars: Where are they now? And why did they leave? News podcast: Network World 360 Juniper's New Network Gains Traction Google to acquire voice and video codec company As big as Google is, Nexus One online store's failure shows wireless carriers still rule CA World: Cloud computing is new turning point, says CEO WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Tablets, real and rumored A quick look at tablets on the market today and that might be available soon. Read More I could license you to use this software, but then I'd have to kill you If open source struck you as strange when you first heard of the concept, you don't know the half of it. Developers, exercising their legal right specify their own licensing terms, have come up with some pretty wacky stuff. Fact or fiction? Some software is only legal to use after you are dead. Read More Windows 7 helps Microsoft hit record customer satisfaction score Windows 7 has fueled a surge of goodwill toward Microsoft, with the company's customer satisfaction ratings reaching a record high in Q1 2010, according to a new American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) survey. Read More FTC asked to investigate Google Wi-Fi 'snooping' A consumer group has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google after the search company revealed that it had been collecting people's Internet communications from open wireless networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Virtual Clients: The New Face of the Enterprise Desktop Adoption of virtual desktops is exploding. And it's no wonder. They're flexible, easier to manage and secure. But they're not without their challenges. Compatibility for one. And getting people to use and accept the new workstations is another. Learn the latest in best practices and benefits of Desktop Virtualization. View Now Skype worm no cause for panic, says expert Security research firm Bkis earlier this month warned of a vicious virus targeting both Skype and Yahoo! Messenger. BKIS said in a blog post the attack involved inserting malicious URLs into chat windows with sophisticated social engineering hooks. Read More London to get full wi-fi coverage by 2012 Olympics Speaking at a Google event today Boris Johnson has promised that "every lamppost and every bus stop will one day very soon, and before the 2012 Olympics, be wi-fi enabled." Read More Sun's stars: Where are they now? And why did they leave? Oracle, which spent $7.4 billion to acquire once-high-flying Sun Microsystems, has been losing prominent Sun technologists since shortly after the deal was forged. The acquisition was supposed to give Oracle control not only over such technologies as Sun's flagship Java implementation and Sun's Sparc hardware, but access to engineers and developers who were nothing short of celebrities in their field. But it has not worked out that way. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 A new survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Index shows that Windows 7 has fueled a surge of goodwill toward Microsoft, with the company's customer satisfaction ratings reaching a record high in the first quarter of 2010. Also, Apple's Mac sales jumped 39% in April over the same month a year ago, while iPod sales were down 17%, a retail research analyst said today. (5:06) Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. Juniper's New Network Gains Traction Yesterday, Juniper Networks made a series of announcements. The company is introducing technologies to flatten and secure the data center network and change the ecnomonic model. Juniper will offer multiple new homegrown and third-party applications built on top of Junos (aka the Junos Space initiative). Read More Google to acquire voice and video codec company Google plans to acquire video and VoIP (Voice over IP) codec developer Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for approximately 421 million Norwegian kronor (US$68.2 million) in cash, the company said on Tuesday. Read More As big as Google is, Nexus One online store's failure shows wireless carriers still rule Google Inc.s decision to stop selling its Nexus One Android smartphone through its online store might disappoint some customers hoping to limit the role of wireless carriers in the smartphone buying process. Read More CA World: Cloud computing is new turning point, says CEO Cloud computing marks a new "inflexion" point in the IT industry, according to CA Technologies. Read More
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