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	New undersea cable feeds African botnets Spam coming from Africa could be about to boom thanks to new broadband infrastructure in the Eastern half of the continent, according to Symantec's MessageLabs division. Read More 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 In this Issue Five indicted in cybertheft of city's bank accounts Facebook Answers Critics With New Privacy Controls Symantec readies Norton security, storage apps for Android, iPhone smartphones The firewall: Interview with blogger Daniel Kennedy The hottest images of cool outer space Steve Ballmer as emoticons Microsoft wins 18,000-seat cloud contract with University of Arizona WHITE PAPER: ShoreTel Conquer the Cost of IP Complexity Companies are frequently tied to expensive, complex, legacy telecommunications systems that don't support modern technologies and applications, such as unified communications. This white paper examines the challenges associated with legacy systems and how to achieve greater value and opportunities with IP-based technology. Read More Five indicted in cybertheft of city's bank accounts Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, Calif. Read More Facebook Answers Critics With New Privacy Controls Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled his company's revamped privacy tools in front of a corps of tech journalists that included organizers of last year's Facebook Redesign Revolt, PCWorld editors who drafted a Bill of Rights for Facebook Users, and many of the company's fiercest critics of its privacy policies. 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! Symantec readies Norton security, storage apps for Android, iPhone smartphones Symantec's Norton division today launched its "Norton Everywhere" initiative aimed at bringing security protections and cloud-storage access to the Google Android and Apple iPhone smartphones. Read More The firewall: Interview with blogger Daniel Kennedy Daniel Kennedy, MSIA, graduated from the Master of Science in Information Assurance program in the School of Graduate Studies of Norwich University in 2008. He has recently become a contributor to an interesting, thoughtful and valuable blog at Forbes Online and I interviewed him recently about his new project. This is the first of a two-part interview. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware 5 Tips for Getting the Best Web App Performance This eBook, compiled by Network World, explores the pressing issues, from dealing with outages and evaluating performance monitoring services, to the impact of virtualization. Get expert tips to optimize your Web apps. Learn More Now The hottest images of cool outer space Black holes, hungry planets, weird orbits dominate space news Read More Steve Ballmer as emoticons It's not often hard to guess what Steve Ballmer is feeling. The Microsoft CEO has one of the most recognized, and photographed, faces in the IT industry ¿ and it's also one of the most expressive. Read More Microsoft wins 18,000-seat cloud contract with University of Arizona Score one for Microsoft in the cloud. The University of Arizona is moving 18,000 faculty and staff members to Microsoft's online e-mail and collaboration system, the university said today. Read More
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