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	10 useful Firefox-based apps Here are 10 useful desktop programs that run on the open-source Web browser's native technology. All of these applications are free for you to download and use -- and only one is a Web browser. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How Does Your IT Organization Measure Up? IDG has made it easy for you to benchmark your IT efforts in key areas of performance. Just click below and take a 5-minute assessment using a global benchmark tool that will rank your organization against the best practices and high priorities of some 350 high-performing IT organizations surveyed by IDG Research. Learn More Now In this Issue Apple sells 2 million iPads in under two months Intel unveils new server chip with 32 cores $100 million 'scareware' CEO was already a fugitive Score one for the good guys Will an open-source alternative to Facebook actually work? Woman Sues Google Because of Bad Directions 10 Types of Coworkers No One Would Miss Chronicling the open source movement - one person at a time Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 slide was wrong Google Apps gets serious about moving data from Microsoft Outlook WEBCAST: Actuate Solve Data Needs: BIRT Defined This webcast will give you a primer on BIRT including the technology and the community. BIRT can help you overcome the challenge of delivering accurate and meaningful data to users while minimizing IT development efforts. Learn more today! Apple sells 2 million iPads in under two months Apple has now sold more than two million iPad tablets, it said Monday, less than two months after the iPad's April 3 U.S. launch. Read More Intel unveils new server chip with 32 cores Intel announced a new 32-core server chip based on a new high-performance computing server architecture that mixes general x86 cores with specialized cores for faster processing of highly parallel scientific and commercial applications. Read More $100 million 'scareware' CEO was already a fugitive The CEO of a company accused of making more than US$100 million selling harmful "scareware" antivirus products was already a fugitive from U.S. authorities, following his arrest in 2008 on criminal counterfeiting charges. 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! Score one for the good guys There's been much discussion on this blog about cyber crime and how it can be thwarted. Cyber crooks bounce around different servers around the world, surreptitiously hijack computers, steal money or identities and disappear without a trace. But every once in a while, the good guys catch a break. Read More Will an open-source alternative to Facebook actually work? The anti-Facebook movement has created a level of interest in open-source solutions to the privacy issue where virtually none has existed before. Read More Woman Sues Google Because of Bad Directions One day I was using my cell phone's GPS service to find the nearest Target. I was driving down the road when suddenly my cell phone piped up, "Turn right here." I looked to the right. There was no road, just a tree and some grass. I chalked it up to a GPS glitch and turned right at the next corner. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the network impact of 802.11n This paper describes 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 10 Types of Coworkers No One Would Miss Hit TV show "The Office" works for one good reason: Every office has a few crazy characters. Here's a look at the 10 types we could do without, from the etiquette-challenged to the lunch-crazed. Hey, if you're going to eat like that, Mr. Seagull, you're gonna have to live with the reputation. Read More Chronicling the open source movement - one person at a time Whether open source is a license, a community or more is debatable, but what's not is that none of it would be possible without the people behind it. Read More Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 slide was wrong Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC's sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. Read More Google Apps gets serious about moving data from Microsoft Outlook Google has taken various approaches to marketing Google Apps to current users of Microsoft Office products. Google often touts its cloud-based email and collaboration service as a full replacement of Microsoft, while at other times telling customers that it can simply enhance current Microsoft deployments. Read More
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