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	New rootkit threatens all versions of Windows Microsoft has confirmed a new, highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings. The exploit is a whopper on all levels. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Best Practices for Design, Architecture and Management This document provides NetApp best practices for architecting, sizing, and deploying a VMware® VDI environment on NetApp® storage. Learn more. In this Issue Why People Love to Hate Their Office Printers Better Living Through Implants Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don't Want You to Know Microsoft's cloud strategy: A question of 'feature parity' Windows Phone 7 'preview' winning generally good reviews Can Windows Phone 7 Save Microsoft's Mobile Bacon? Give Your Phone the Power of a Desktop PC Poll: One in six XP users plan Windows 7 upgrade Offshore R&D spending grows, recession or not WHITE PAPER: IBM Data Driven Marketing This report examines how Organizations are using data to impact marketing performance and marketing effectiveness It highlights best practices from 272 organizations to identify how Best-in-Class organizations use data to achieve superior performance. Learn More Why People Love to Hate Their Office Printers Who hasn't wanted to take a bat to their office printer? From confusing error messages to unfixable paper jams, today's office printer is a source of frustration and angst. This is why we hate you, office printer. And yet we can't quit you, either. Read More Better Living Through Implants Imagine if you could learn to fly a helicopter by downloading software directly to your brain. Imagine if your eyes could see an object, overlaid with data, miles away in the dark. These science-fiction scenes from The Matrix and Terminator movies may be less fictional in the future, thanks to the fascinating science behind medical implants. Read More Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don't Want You to Know When you've got the basics covered, but you still don't feel secure, what can you do? Here are a few advanced security tips to help you thwart some of today's most common attacks. Read More REPORT: Riverbed Magic Quadrant Report Riverbed positioned in Leaders quadrant of 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner helps organizations interested in WAN Optimization Controller capabilities truly understand their options. Read now! Microsoft's cloud strategy: A question of 'feature parity' Microsoft's hosted Exchange and SharePoint will achieve most of the desired feature parity with traditional versions of the software but Office Web Apps is another story. Read More Windows Phone 7 'preview' winning generally good reviews The newest release of the Windows Phone 7 software, now on prototype handsets, is getting good reviews. Read More Can Windows Phone 7 Save Microsoft's Mobile Bacon? Windows Phone 7 is inching closer to market. Microsoft has sent the operating system for its brand of mobile phones to the labs of carriers for testing, as well as to developers of applications for the phones, which are expected to reach the market in time for holiday shoppers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Address Real-Time Application Performance IDC interviewed customers using Riverbed Cascade solution. Their analysis includes hard dollar ROI and benefits of the following features: • Application-level view of networks and servers • Visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies • Network behavioral analysis • Metrics to track performance SLAs Read now! Give Your Phone the Power of a Desktop PC Mobile computing has long been dominated by laptop computers, but powerful new smartphones such as the Apple iPhone 4 and the various Android phones -- including the new Motorola Droid X -- are rapidly becoming the portable computing devices of choice. Read More Poll: One in six XP users plan Windows 7 upgrade A PCA poll has found that just under one in six (15.4 percent) of Windows XP users planned to upgrade to Windows 7 immediately after Microsoft pulled support for XP's second service pack. Read More Offshore R&D spending grows, recession or not Engineering research and development spending increased overall during the recession, but more of this spending is moving offshore, according to a new study by Booz & Co. Read More
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