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	Supreme Court ruling lets employers view worker text messages with reason The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Ontario, Calif., police department has the right to search through personal text messages sent by employees on city-issued devices. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Xerox Xerox Managed Print Services Industry analysts name Xerox a leader in Managed Print Services. Let Xerox help reduce your company's printing cost by up to 30%. Start saving money now. In this Issue DHS has dropped the ball on network security: report Facebook, stop what you're doing: Amazon has patent for 'social network' Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs 'Many thousands' of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets prepped for developers FCC takes first step toward broadband regulation Laptop vs. Netbook vs. Smartphone LTE vs WiMAX VMware vs. Microsoft vs. Citrix Dell backtracks slightly on Ubuntu safety Where Microsoft stands on cloud computing US Dept. of Energy wants bigger wind energy ideas Open source brings new meaning to user-generated content RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DEMO Conference Winner Major advances in understanding emotions conveyed by voice DEMO Conference $1M Media Prize winner- eXaudios MagInify decodes people's emotions in realtime as they speak. Watch their DEMO Spring 2010 product launch at http://www.demo.com/dswinner Click to continue DHS has dropped the ball on network security: report Bleak doesn't begin to describe the picture painted by the news coverage of a 35-page government report scoring - and excoriating - the nation's ongoing inability to protect critical network operations from cyber attack. Read More Facebook, stop what you're doing: Amazon has patent for 'social network' You better stop what you're doing right there, Mark Zuckerberg: Somebody else has patented the "social network." Read More Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs In online banking and payments, customers' PCs have become the Achilles' heel of the financial industry as cyber-crooks remotely take control of the computers to make unauthorized funds transfers, often to faraway places. Read More 'Many thousands' of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets prepped for developers Microsoft is confirming that "many thousands" of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets will be given to selected developers starting in July, but confusion over how that will be done continues. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center FCC takes first step toward broadband regulation The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took a first step toward imposing limited regulations on broadband providers by voting Thursday to launch a notice of inquiry exploring the change. Read More Laptop vs. Netbook vs. Smartphone The world of personal computing is changing. Judging from sales figures, laptops have long surpassed desktops as the dominant form of computer. The surge in netbook sales has shown that users are willing to sacrifice performance in the name of portability and price. More important, smartphones are now fully functional computers with a wide variety of applications and services that are rapidly gobbling up users' time and money. With laptops falling in price, premium netbooks rising in cost, and no-contract smartphones commanding $400 or more, the differences in price are not necessarily that great. Read More LTE vs WiMAX The argument between LTE and WiMAX continues to rage at least three years after it ignited, but many think LTE may end up becoming the 4G technology of choice. Read More VMware vs. Microsoft vs. Citrix Server virtualization is no longer a one-horse race, as Microsoft, Citrix and others compete more convincingly with market leader VMware. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Out with the old, in with the 'new normal' The old standards in IT, marked by costly, inflexible infrastructures, just don't work in today's hyper-demanding and dynamic business world. It's time for a 'new normal' marked by lower costs, user self-service, streamlined processes, better security and increased flexibility. Underlying it all is a fresh approach to virtualization. Learn More Dell backtracks slightly on Ubuntu safety In a move that probably shocks no one, Dell has removed a statement that Ubuntu is more secure than Microsoft Windows from its website. Read More Where Microsoft stands on cloud computing Microsoft is betting on the cloud to provide the next wave of innovation and opportunities for technologists, business and consumers. But what progress has it made so far? Read More US Dept. of Energy wants bigger wind energy ideas The Department of Energy (DOE) wants to kick up the research and development of offshore wind projects as it looks to achieve its goal of producing produce 20% of the country's electricity from wind farms by 2030. Read More Open source brings new meaning to user-generated content With almost half a million dollars, an open source project hopes to revolutionize local journalism. Read More
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