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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Google Voice no longer an invitation-only affair

Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job | Open-sourced textbooks could ease college costs

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Google Voice no longer an invitation-only affair
Just under a year after launching as an invite-only service, Google Voice is now open to everyone on the Web. Read More


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Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job
As part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. But Apple's iPad isn't slated to get the iOS 4 update until this fall. Read More

Open-sourced textbooks could ease college costs
While it wouldn't be the first open-sourced textbook, it may well be the first not to focus on open source and the first spearheaded by a major university. Read More

VeriSign SSL Hackable - Comodo Exposes, VeriSign Denies
Comodo announced today that it requested an independent third-party to notify VeriSign of a security vulnerability affecting its customers' web sites, including a major financial institution. VeriSign received notification by the independent third-party last Tuesday. Read More


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More than a quarter of iPhones break within 2 years
More than one in four Apple iPhones break or fail within two years, a company that provides after-sale warranties said today. Read More

ITIL v3 still mostly an enterprise outsider
If you've embraced the IT Infrastructure Library best practices framework but haven't yet touched Version 3, you're not alone. Three years since becoming available, ITIL v3 adoption within the enterprise remains underwhelming, reports Forrester Research based on recent results of a survey it conducted with IT process stakeholders. Read More

Death of Windows XP SP2 Support a Security Risk, Says Report
With Windows XP SP2 support ending in three weeks, a new report highlights the security risks that come with running an unsupported service pack. Read More


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ROI of Switched Ethernet Networking
Midmarket firms must incorporate new levels of bandwidth and intelligence into their network to handle technologies such as VoIP and videoconferencing. IDC interviewed several organizations to determine their future networking strategies. Learn More.

Too many data-loss prevention tools become shelfware, says analyst
The good, the bad and the ugly of data-loss prevention tools and technologies got a solid once over from Gartner analyst Eric Ouellet, who spared no punches during his presentation on the topic during the first day of Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit. Read More

'Just-in-time' provisioning for the cloud
Last issue we looked at Nishant Kaushik's vast exploration of federated provisioning for cloud-based services. Like Kaushik, I think "just in time" provisioning is the way to go. Read More

IBM courts finance market with new framework
IBM debuts a newly packaged framework for financial services. Read More

Another bite at the zettabyte
It all started with this post (also in the June 7 print edition) about the zettabyte toppling the petabyte from its perch as the measure of choice for describing humankind's yearly output of digital data. My quibble was with attempts by byte-counters to describe in layman's terms the scale of the new king, which weighs in at 1 trillion gigabytes, or a 1 followed by 21 zeroes. Read More



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